system migration

Hi - I'm migrating from W10 to W11 Pro. My account came across OK, but when I attempted to login to my wife's account on the new system it told me I HAD to create a PIN. She'd always used a password on the old system but there was no bypass here - I had to create a PIN, which I did. When I...

Hello everyone, I have a problem with NVME hard drives, 3 of them by now. I work with Windows 11 Pro, Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2690 v4 @ 2.60GHz and I have done the data transfer with EaseUS Partition Wizard Pro. The NVME's are installed as follows: 1 x directly on the mainboard (MACHINIST...

I just transferred my system from Win7 to Win10, and everything came across nicely. File Explorer shows the desktop with 28 items, but they aren't showing on the screen. The only thing on the screen is the Recycle bin. What did I miss?

Whenever I print something in Windows 7 I need to restart my print spooler to get it to print. If I simply upgrade to Windows 10 will that problem follow me? If so, is there anything special I need to know about doing a clean install? I've never done one before. I have Windows 7 Home Premium...

Back when I was young and foolish and installing Windows 7 I didn't understand the difference between 32-bit and 64-bit and just went with 32-bit and now I'm paying the price for my ignorance. I'd like to correct my past mistakes and upgrade to Windows 10 at the same time, but the process for...

Hello everyone, I am currently looking for computer parts for a custom built computer that I will make over the summer. I was wondering if I take the hard drive (1TB) from my current computer and put it into my new computer could I still use the free windows 10 upgrade? WIll I have to reset the...

Hi I need a little help installing 8.1 on a ssd.... In short, yesterday I purchased a new HP ENVY 700-230eq desktop that runs on a quad core 4th gen. I7 processor 16gb of ram it also runs on a 2gb. Grafics card and a 2 tb. hhd. And last but not least it works all this great hard ware on the...

After reformatting and reinstalling W7 Pro and getting it all set-up and updated i am going to do an image ( with one of the tools on UBCD). But it occurred to me that in the near future i am going to be upgrading my system entirely and am curious, what happens if i take the image of my current...

hello what im looking for is to know how can i take my own windows 7 os which i use at the moment and make it ISO file which i can later use it to run the windows directly over usb stick i read many guides but they all explain mostly how to install new windows 7 over usb drive which i already...

Hello all I have installed two ssd's in raid 0 configuration all I want to do is tranfer my e-mails from my old C drive, I tried easy transfer but it did not transfer my e-mails or accounts. I did what was previously suggested on this forum, I booted from my old C drive exported my e-mail...

Hi I just responded to a post on a graphic arts forum. The poster had taken the Windows OS 1.5 TB Hard Drive Running Windows 7 64 bit, out of one of his computers and put it into another computer, replacing a drive running Windows 7 32 bit and wanted to know why it wouldn't boot. He did...

Hello there, My Uncle bought a new HDD and wanted to migrate his Windows 7 Installation from its original HDD to the new one (Maxtor to Hitachi). A tech friend of mine recommended CloneZilla, a freeware imaging program which would allow me to make an image of the HDD and transfer it to another...

Hello, I guess I need a way to copy my current C drive to a new drive so that the new drive can replace the C drive. Or perhaps there’s some alternate way to replace the C drive with a newer and larger drive. I’m running Windows 7 Home Premium. Any help will be greatly appreciated...

...but rather than re-installing the OS ( W7 Ultimate ) and all software can I not simply make an image and copy it to the SSD, thereafter modifying the BIOS to boot from the SSD rather than the original HDD leaving the latter available for data only ? I gather I have to disable Prefetch, Super...

In Vista i had a user directory named Michael. When i upgrade to Windows 7 from vista a new user directory appear named Michael.000 Could somebody help me how to rid off the new directory?, what shuold i have to do in my registry? Some program use Michael and some use Michael.000 which confused...

I'm trying to copy a series of files from my old XP machine to the new Win 7 machine. I've turned off User access control, I made myself the owner of the machine, etc., the files on the old machine have no permissions preventing the copying. I am the owner of both machines and there is no...

I had stored Public pictures, music and video on a USB external drive prior to upgrading. Since upgrading last night the folders exist on C drive and on USB drive but they appear empty of files. The drive still seems "full" but I can't get at the files through Win7 (or Vista or XP when I attach...

I originally upgraded from Vista to the release version of Windows 7. I've seen posts saying that it was much smarter to backup your stuff and do a clean install. Would it be wise to instead, back it all up now and just do a fresh install?

I have XP installed on my old HDD. I bought a new HDD and windows 7 I installed windows 7 on my new HDD, my old HDD was plugged in at the same time of the installation. Everything runs great. I then put my pc back together, leaving my old HDD out, as i only want my new HDD with 7 installed...

I would be curious to get some reactions to those who have upgraded a WinXp system to Windows 7. I have installed the beta on a separate paration but when the final is released I would like to upgrade my existing winXP system. Just wanted to know how this would work out. Thanks.