repair install

Presently, I have Win 8 CP on a 40GB WD HDD. What I'd like to do is dump Vista, which is installed on one of my better hard drives, slide Windows 7 over beside XP Pro x64, rebuild the MBR & do a repair install to that. Then, using Mini Tool Partition Home Wizard, copy my Windows 8 install to...

I have a problem with an Italian Windows 7 32-bit Home Premium installation that I have been unable to resolve. So I am resorting to a 'repair' install. I downloaded the English Win 7 32-bit generic version as an ISO file and started to perform an 'upgrade' install. However, I didn't get very...

I have been having trouble with my computer being slow. After doing a repair install it is better, but it did not correct the "freezing up" part of it. Sometimes I can correct it by just clicking all over the screen and other times to ctrl, alt, del and click on different user, but it is a...

Hello everyone, Today my mediaplayer stopped working, and I decided to restart to see if that would fix the problem. When I shut down my PC it just kept hanging on "Shutting down" for 10 minutes so I forced a shutdown by holding the power button. After booting up again however Windows 7...

I had to reformat my Win 8 DP partition and then restore from an Image I had created. When I did this I lost the fancy new Win 8 DP Boot Screen (boot loader). I did have to go into Win 7 and use EasyBCD to add my Win 8 DP OS to the MBR, but the boring old Win 7 boot screen comes up, even when I...

I've spent the last two days reading threads on anything remotely connected to my problem but i can't fix it, i'm really hoping someone here can help me...I run Windows 7 64bit. The other day the computer shut down on it's own. I turned it back on, Windows wouldn't load, it entered a loop of...

My boot hard drive went bad according to S.M.A.R.T., so I replaced it after doing a full disk copy. The new drive works fine and everything works BUT there was damage to some Windows (Win 7 Pro 64 bit) files over an unknown period of time, so Windows Restore won't help. I have SP1 installed, so...

My OS has developed a problem of links internal to email and sometimes other links do not work. IE8 which is part of Win 7 seems to be the problem. I have gone round and round on other forums but noone is able to fix the problem so I am left with re-installing the OS. Before you suggest I...

New build, details as follows: Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-870A-UD3 CPU: Phenom II X4 955BE RAM: 4x2GB ADATA DDR3 1333 (Model: AXDU1333EB2G9-2G) GPU: Asus Geforce GTX460 1GB HD: 64GB ADATA S599 SSD BIOS was updated to latest version after building rig. Running Home Premium 64 After...

A funny thing happened, for various reasons such as 2 or 3 updates would not install they always failed. I had to do a repair install on my W7 64 bit. My internal card reader would never work except to the USB port, the various flash card slots never worked. I always had a failure in device...

I have now built 3 machines using Win7 and I noticed an interesting problem: When installing on a machine that has more than one blank hard drive Win 7 seems to write some critical boot files to the second hard drive. I noticed that later if there are any issues with the second hard drive or it...

I have been looking into this problem for about a week with no avail, I have tried almost every fix possibly with no solution in sight. I am unable to install .msi files with the error 1719: The Windows Installer Service could not be accessed. This can occur if you are running Windows in safe...

For some reason some websites fonts are really messed up. They appear either bold or narrow. This is only on some sites for some reason. I've did a system restore didn't work, did a repair install and still hasn't worked. This starting to really annoy me. Any help please. :)...

Have a e6600 dual core, evga 680i board, 4 gb ddr26400, gtx260, win 7 pro upgraded from vista. I have looked all over and tried almost everything. BIOS detects dual core as it allows me to enable or disable the second one, and intel proc id tool detects 2 cores. However, windows 7, and any...

I've been dual-booting for about two months now on two seperate HDs. One HD is XP Pro SP3 - it was my first one - and then I added another HD and installed Win 7 on that. Recently, my 7 was crashing in a BSOD hard when I was playing a video game. I posted the minidump files online, and was...

Hi everyone, I recently did a clean install of Windows 7 onto a new hard drive, and have been having several problems that I don't think are malware related. I've already done a repair install via upgrade media, and some problems that I had before went away, but many of them remained. My...

My laptop was working fine until I rebooted. After I rebooted, Aero thems is gone. I cannot save any of the settings. Audio is not working. Networking is not working!! I cannot use anything in the control panel. I came to realize that RPC is not available but when i typed services.msc in run...

If the System is not able to create System restore point try to Create the restore point manually. If you are unable to create a system restore point manually then you could try these steps 1. Make sure that System Restore is enabled 2. Make sure that you have sufficient disk space on all...

WMP12 cant open, uninstall, install please help! i had just installed wmp12 from windows feature panel as i had previously uninstalled it, but after that before i restart the pc the battery life ended and the pc power off without shutting down correctly. when i restart the pc wmp didnt...