system recovery

Recently managed to brick my computer by trying to clear up some space on my C: drive. I checked 'Compress Drive'. The problem is when I boot up my laptop it goes straight to a blank screen with the following: WIDTM is compressed. Press ctrl+alt-del to restart. I can't access safe mode. I can...

Win 7 64 Bit OS. If I cloned a 64GB SSD to a new 128GB SSD and find the system could be bad can I use the system recover disk created with the 64GB SSD to try to correct a problem in the 128GB SSD? I ran sfc/scannow from cmd and one or more problems was corrected but I still cannot install...

OK, so I get the Start Windows normally or Repair screen, then I get the insert disk and restart, then choose your language settings. Then it tries to repair my computer, then it says no problem found or something like that. Then I get the details Problem Event Name : StartupRepairOffline...

I have a Win7 install - clean install, about 6-7 months old. Only being used for work purposes (web development) no gaming anything like that. Randomly as far as i can tell, my computer crashes. There's no bluescreen, no error log. The only thing to indicate something happened is that fact that...

Hi all, I will try to keep this brief... We have an Acer Aspire M3802 (Windows 7 home premium, 64-bit), with a generic 1280 x 1024 monitor, which has worked beautifully for three years, until last week. We started to get random BSODs, which increased in frequency to about one every five...

I have a problem with my Win 7 x64 SP1 pc.I've uninstalled the Office with the Revo Uninstaller and then it becamess very unstable.I've tryed to do go back to a restore point, but I get errors and I don't have a backup.The problems I have are: 1. The Windows explorer don't work. It says...

Crash Dump Help, Please! (Correct dump file this time.) Been working on this all day. I'm under the gun to get the laptop functional. I'm down to the wire now. It boots to the login screen, then it simply goes dark within 5 seconds. I can boot into Safe mode, but not with Networking enabled...

I have a strange behavior when I install virtualbox on my windows8 laptop: Cold boot (windows8 restart) will then fail, whereas shutdown (fast boot enabled) or suspend still work fine. Laptop is an HP G6 with an SSD installed with 64 bit windows 8. Prior to the virtualbox install all three...

Hi I decided that I should, create a System Recovery DVD for my new computer. However when I try and do it I only get the option to create a recovery USB Drive. I did that but I'd still like to make a DVD disk. Anyone know how you do this? Ps. I see that my system recovery USB drive has an...

Okay, small situation sketch. Ist I had a win 7 x64 which ran smooth for over a year (had x32 before that, and some linux variants)..Then I decided to upgrade my pc to win 8 (i had heard from fellow it'ers that the upgrade was much better than previous versions so i thought why not give it a...

Hello people, I have had a problem for months now, that sometimes data wouldn't copy or be deleted if they had anything to do with installing before. For example, if a program autoupdates itself and downloads his new .exe, then it might be unable to delete the old one, and the update failed...

I did a stupid thing I have windows 7 installed on my 1gb drive and have a second 2gb drive so I thought I could install windows 8 on the second drive but did not unplug the windows 7 drive anyway the windows 8 installation completed but would not boot up. So now I have to unplug my backup...

Hello, I've been asked to take a look at a computer system earlier this year. The owner had some sort of false FBI warning trying to get money from them. Since I successfully resolved that on another user's computer system, I checked on theirs too. They have what I believe is an HP Pavilion...

Hi all, I was wondering something and is hoping someone can give me a lending hand. Ok, here is what I've been thinking.. lets say I made my system dual boot, Boot A as Windows 7, Boot B as maybe , lets say windows XP. after making this work, in windows 7, I go to Advanced tab in system...

Hello everybody, got genuine OEM Win7 Home Premium (64bit) and a Pavilion dv7 laptop. Almost everytime, when I have certain folder opened, explorer.exe starts loading my CPU (13% usually... sometimes it can rise even further !)... explorer loads stays, until I terminate the process via task...

Sometimes I accord blue screen event and my computer restarts. when I'm playing games or I'm browsing web pages or maybe other times too. This is the error log when my computer restarts and shows windows has recovered from an upexcted shutdown : Problem signature: Problem Event Name...

I downloaded/ran the latest edition of Firefox. My computer appeared to crash: startup repair failed twice, would not start in Safe Mode, F9 Diagnostics all passed, F11 System Recovery failed. Finally I used System Restore to return to an earlier date. The Firefox program was deleted. It...

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...

Please help. Ive bought A lenovo g580(?) with 7 pre installed. There is four partitions preinstalled on the hdd. I've understod that You can not delete any of these, in order to keep the recovery system working. Four partitions is the Max number of such. Is it possible to Get an extra data...

I try to add a second internal SATA 6 hard drive to my computer. On restart, Windows 8 gives a message "Preparing for Repair" and after few seconds it restarts computer and again the same message and continues to restart. This SATA was already working smoothly with Windows 7 and Windows 8 RP...