repair disk

how do I boot a recovery drive usb on start up in windows 8 .1 How do I boot a recovery drive usb on start up in windows 8 .1 like I can do in win 7 with a repair disk DVD? I followed the instructions and I cannot bring up the usb disk. Please help!! I have had problems with win 8.1 to the...

any chance of this being remedied with a smart phone and a dumb guy? i forgot to partition hd and then loaded sony acid pro twice on accident. shut 'er down posthaste.

How create a repair rescue disk Windows 8 to restore Registry ONLY? ''Have a new HP Envy 15t-J100. Has a Recovery Partition. I created a Boot USB stick. Fine I recall with other Windows versions & and such you could create a repair/rescue CD that basically allowed you to restore your settings...

Hello, My computer has many corrupt files. I have done both sfc /scannow and chkdsk /r multiple times, but the corrupt files still remain. Unfortunately, my HP's recovery manager is also corrupt. I want to do a full factory restore. Because I couldn't do a full factory restore from the...

I have an HP Probook 4530s that the hard disk got corrupted. I cannot find my recovery DVD's so I simply re-installed windows 7 from a retail package (and used my computers product code. That part seemed to have worked fine. Where I am running into a problem is that when the laptop goes into...

I've got an out of warranty drive that has a bunch of bad sectors, which I'm going to replace with a new drive. The fact that the drive still works (after doing chkdsk) raises a question in my mind about a program called Hard Drive Regenerator. I understand that there is more than one reason...

Preface: I'm building my own computer from scratch after having headaches with my current one (a Dell) for about 4 years. Seeing since it's come from Dell, they've saved me the pain of installing Windows 7 myself, and have also handily provided me with a sticker that displays Proof of License...

A few weeks ago I tried out an Ubuntu installation, just to see if it met my requirements. I have all I need on Win7 but being the adventurous type and already having tried and dismissed Win8 I thought I'd try Ubuntu. My machine has 4 hard drives and one of them had shown up as not available and...

My computer will not boot past the Windows 7 logo. I have tried booting into safe more as well as booting with the last known good configuration. I have also tried booting with the Windows repair disc and windows installation disc but nothing seems to be working. Is it a hardware issue...

High, long time windows user, new to the forum. I'm hopping to catch some windows gurus for this. So, my girlfriends HDD bit the bullet a week ago and corrupted the disk formating. Windows reads it as an empty disk ready to format. That being said, I was able to recover the entire drive with a...

OK, it seems my W8 system is possibly in a bit of trouble... I ran CHKDSK on my C: drive, and at the end saw this : ============= Errors detected in the Boot File. Windows has checked the file system and found problems. Please run chkdsk /scan to find the problems and queue them for repair...

SHORT VERSION: I made the mistake of installing an OS on my desktop from a Reinstallation disk that came with my Dell laptop. It actually worked okay until I installed a Wireless PCI express adapter. Things became unresponsive within a few hours of that and now it will not boot, even in safe...

My computer ended up with the malicious toolbar iminent. After multiple attempts to remove it I decided to reformat the computer, since my last backup is mercifully recent. However, when I attempted to run a repair disc, but in the middle of this I received the message in the thread's title...

I have been using Win7 Backup & Restore (without errors) for years. After I did my weekly 'Create System Image' to an external HDD, I went to create a System Repair Disc & up popped the following error message Link Removed I've run chkdsk, both my CD/DVD drives are fine & I've run recdisc from...

Okay, So it all started with m computer giving me this: Windows failed to start. A recent hardware of software change might be the cause. To fix the problem: 1.Insert your Windows installation disc and restart the computer. 2.Choose your language settings, and then click "Next". 3.Click...

Running Windows 7 in a RAID 0, and periodically I will get a boot failure error with the message No default or UI configuration directive found. This usually happens if I do some kind of heavy maintenance on my system. For example I might remove my graphics card or cpu cooler to blow the dust...

Hi I thought this might be of interest to all the people we get who have no disk to repair their computer. http://systemdiscs.com/Home/Features High Speed System Recovery Disc Downloads I have no information other then this web site. Mike

Hi, I have a compac (HP) laptop (CQ61-41us notebook), running WIN7 home premium, 64 bit. Aside from the normal file backup via the western digital software, I have several windows 7 generated iso images of my laptop stored on my external WD drive. Using windows repair disk, my computer does not...

I have been using Windows 8 64-bit Build 9200 (RTM) on a standard laptop device for about 3 or 4 weeks and everything has been working great! Not sure when it happened, but this morning I noticed that the USB ports were not working... I changed the hard disk to a Win7 64bit to see if it...

bought new laptop few days ago and went to factory reset via the recovery partition, it stuffed up few times during instlallation and got few blue screens and was stuck on formatting so i formatted laptop to win xp to burn myself a win7 installer into disc so i did and tried installing via disc...