system repair

  1. R

    Windows 7 Windows does not recognise my DVD writer when I try to create a rescue disc

    Windows f Home Premium does not recognise my DVD writer when I try to make a Rescue Disk using "Maintenence-Create a System Repair Disc". The DVD writer is shown on the "Computer" window, and "properties" shows the disc writer to be working properly, and it will burn discs from Windows Media...
  2. M

    Windows 7 User Account Disappearing from logon & control panel

    Ok, about two weeks ago I seemed to have gotten a virus that we believed to have been some how related to the google toolbar. We could not open the anti-virus, or do to much from my user account, but everything works fine on my moms user account, so she ran the anti-virus and what not. With no...
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    Windows 7 BSOD'd then was locked out of drive, repair wont recognize OS presence.

    My computer suddenly, and for the first time since i got win7(x64) in nov 09, BSoD'd on me. My bios wont recognize the drive (OCZ vertex SSD) anymore, and when i loaded win7 repair disk and it wont recognize it either. I then loaded win7 onto another disk and put the problem disk on as a...
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    Windows 7 Scan A Windows PC For Viruses From A Ubuntu Live CD

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    Windows 7 Problem with corrupted Windows 7

    Hi! I am in need of some help here. I was reformating my computer and suddenly it crashed. And because of that crash, my windows files became corrupted and now it wont start no matter what I do. So, I took the 3 CDs that I burned as a backup but the weird thing is, the computer...
  6. R

    Windows 7 Startup Repair Looping to no effect

    Hello, My computer contracted the AntiMalware Doctor/Spyware Suite trojan several days ago. I was able to remove the majority of it, but upon booting AND connecting to the internet I would receive the following message: "Windows has encounterd a critical error and will restart in 1 minute."...
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    Windows 7 Blank desktop, temp profile is loaded.

    Hello, I have a problem with my windows 7 Installation. Every time I boot to windows it hangs and says "Preparing your windows" and after that I get a blank screen. This happened after I removed the Windows XP I had on the same HHD, and extended the Windows 7 partition. I can not enter...
  8. M

    Windows 7 How to start a System Restore in Safe Mode with a Command Prompt

    Ok, so I've searched and searched and cannot find the "code" to enter into a Command line in order to start a System Restore. I am running Windows 7, and I have found the How-to for an XP user... Don't link me that How-to, because it doesn't work. But I do appreciate any help. Thank you.
  9. kumarkush

    Windows 7 BOOTMGR is missing - detailed problem report

    Hi All, I have a single 500GB SATA HDD in my computer. (Rest of the specs are : 24x HP SATA DVD R/W, Intel C2D E7500 processor, Intel DG41RQI MoBo, Kingston 800 MHz 2GB RAM). When I first setup my hard-drive, I first installed "Windows 7 Home Premium 32-bit" on D: drive then "Windows 7...
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    Windows 7 Restoring a backup image from USB external hard drive

    Hello, I hope someone can help me. I have a problem I wasn't expecting. I am using Windows 7 Home Prem and have used the OS software to create a back up image of my hard drive onto an external one, no probs so far. I then go into the repair computer section on boot up that has a restore from...
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    Windows 7 Windows 7 and vista dual boot problems

    I have a 1TB hard drive divided into 2 partitions of 500GB each. On one partition I have installed windows 7, and on the other, windows vista. Several days ago I started getting a blue screen when trying to boot the windows 7 side. It occurs almost immediatedly after the splash screen. The...
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    Windows 7 Lock up at win start up screen after installing updates

    Ok, so my computer has recently been locking up upon start-up, when the windows logo is flashing it will just freeze and require restart. The only way I've been able to remedy this is by doing a system repair or restore. Before I can get to these I must turn off my computer and unplug it for 15...
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    Windows 7 64-bit Win 7 install/run issues - MEMORY - use 3rd party diagnostic app

    Faulty memory often comes up in posts relating to Win 7 64-bit issues (BSODs, corrupt system files etc), I ran Windows memory diagnostics many times with nary a blip and since 32-bit installed OK without non-repairable sys file corruptions, I assumed all was fine on the RAM front and continued...
  14. Eric Robert

    Windows 7 Corrupt files and drivers. What to do?

    Please help. My computer keeps crashing and has memory dumps everyonce in awhile. It says the files and/or drivers are corrupt. What do I do? I have been trying to figure this out for hours. Thanks -Eric
  15. davidshea

    Windows 7 Dual booting XP & 7; flashed BIOS; 7 ok, XP borked; now won't boot properly:

    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...
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    Windows 7 all system files have been moved to windows.old dir !!

    Hello guys, new here with a great hope to get help for a brand new problem I’ve never been facing before which is driving me crazy for many hours ‘till this very moment am writing down these words. I’m running a single Windows 7 Ultimate x86 OS on my laptop and it used to work very well ‘till...
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    Windows 7 BOOTMGR is missing

    I just did a re-installation of Windows 7 x64 on my computer, and I am getting the dreaded "BOOTMGR is missing" error. The previous operating system was also Windows 7 x64. I have 4 internal HDD, but I am reinstalling to the same drive that I originally used. I reformatted the drive when...
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    Windows 7 Black Screen after sleep mode/turning on monitor

    Hi, Just recently I have been getting a black screen upon returning to my computer after sleep mode and more recently if I turn my monitor off for a longer period of time. The monitor signals that it is on (LG Flatron wide screen - light is blue = on) and shows the logo of the monitor turning...
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    Windows 7 xp machine not visible from W7 machine

    Hello, I regularly encounter the same problem that i can not access or see a XP machine from my W7 machine I could see before in my network. The strange thing is that remote desktop still works. The other way around stll works: I can see the W7 macine on my xp machine. The only solution I...
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    Windows 7 Windows immediately inactive upon startup ..

    Hi there I have had seven installed on my laptop for quite a while now, and haven't had any problems until now. Recently it was abruptly shutdown by an accident, and now it wont do anything. It boots perfectly normally, but as soon as I do anything, the cursor turns into that blue ring...