system recovery

I have problem in windows 7 OS installation.Here are the details of the problems which i came across first of all for clean installation i deleted the existing OS and there is no existing OS in my laptop.I have 48GB of unallocated space but unable to use it to make a primary partition and I...

Hi there, Not sure if this is the right forum but here goes. I have a Samsung NP9000 model NP900X4C-A05AU. It regularly crashes due to full memory. It has 8G of RAM, running Windows 8.1. It's done this since day 1 - I managed to remove some Samsung bloatware that mitigated the problem...

Hello, first off im new here so nice to meet everyone. I did a factory reset on my gateway all in one computer (Model is ZX6970) a while back and everything was going good and I got a message that seems pretty common from my research. it says "Windows could not complete the installation. To...

Hi I have installed a brand new Gigabyte GA-870A-USB3L motherboard for my dad and it has been working for the last few weeks until today, he tells me that a Bad CheckSum error appeared on the BIOS when he rebooted his computer. I have completely powered down the computer and powered it back up...

fsutil dirty query returned both C: and D: drive as Dirty. Desc of the problem and other information: First started off about 6 months ago, my pc has 2 drives, C: and D: with D: being empty, nothing stored, not used for anything. started storing files and within some time there was about a...

Okay, where to start... I start off here. February 10th, 2014 I try to take the side off of my tower, and end up screwing something up. My dad is extremely handy and puts all of the screws back perfectly. However, when I log on, I get the "The RPC Server is Unavailable" error. However, Windows...

I was told taht running check disk would help speed up my laptop, but it didn't. I ran it, and it took about 4 hours to complete. It said that the chkdsk was done, but nothing happened, it just said chkdsk was completed. So I pulled out my battery to restart my laptop, then I started windows...

My laptop Sony Vaio y series was not passing the Sony logo screen so I thought of reinstalling Windows but that was not happening from a bootable usb nor a disk. So I removed the hd and completely formatted it and also made it a bootable hd with windows 8 but my laptop does not go to bios...

I did a refresh/restore type thing on my computer and Windows said "You will not lose any files by doing this. You will however, have to re-install your programs." That was totally fine by me. The only thing is I DID lose some files that were within program files. For example I lost all the...

Okay so here is the scoop inb my latest computing adventure: I have a friend from work who needed me to get his internet working, okay fine i got it working easy enough, just using standard windows 7 stuff no issues. However his main family computer is another story. My friends father got a...

Hello everyone. I'm new to the forums and not patient enough to browse around for a possible answer/fix to my issues so I apologize in advance if I'm in the wrong place. I have an HP 2000 Notebook that I recently did a reinstall of Windows 8 from my recovery drive due to what seemed like huge...

Hi, I get the BSOD when the laptop wakes up from being asleep. Sometimes it happens when I've closed the lid (without powering down) and sometimes it happens if I just leave the laptop on with the lid open and it goes to sleep of its own accord. Most of the time I don't see the BSOD itself; I...

Today when I was doing nothing really at all on my computer I decided to go on speedfan, after I clicked it on my desktop a black screen appeared which looked like my monitor wasn't plugged in (even though it was) and stayed like that for about 5 minutes before I manually shut it down. After I...

So today I went ahead and installed some windows updates, and while they were installing I went downstairs to eat dinner and came back to my computer not being able to start up at all. http://imgur.com/a/iJM0r The computer starts up but flashes a blue screen and just restarts, I went ahead...

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...

I have a dual-boot system between Windows 7 and Kubuntu. When I forgot that Windows 7 is the default operating system, I left my computer running at the boot menu to go get a drink of water. When I got back, I realized my mistake and also realized that CHKDSK was running at a horrifically slow...

Hello all, I am trying to reset my Windows 7 password using the command prompt function. I restart my computer Press F8 On the Advanced Boot Options Screen -- Select Safe Mode with Command Prompt Loading Windows Files screen appears, and scrolls through filenames. Then - the Login window...

So, after a shortage, Windows decided that it would simply not start anymore. So I did the Refresh option it gave me because the option said that it would try to keep as much as possible (the other option was Reset which said it would do exactly that, reset everything). Now, the only thing it...

Win 7 Home Premium 64 bit, 6.1.7601 SP 1 Build 7601, Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD3R, i7-960, 12gb mem, GTX-560, NZXT Gamma case I recently replaced my motherboard and psu in a system recovery. Since then all my fans keep running after shutdown, the front case light is on, usb hub light is on, and case...

Hello, I've had this computer for about a year now and just recently every time I click the shutdown button my computer blue screens. It isn't a random occurrence it only happens when shutting down. I don't understand why this randomly started however I am unable to do a system recovery as it...