system repair

Hi I've been thinking about the Windows 8 recovery option, mostly because I can't start the Windows Firewall. And Windows Recovery won't do what I want it to do. I want to do essentially what you could do in Windows 7, replace the operating system while retaining your installed software and...

Anybody else seen this behavior? Why would changing a SATA controller to a different mode (AHCI to RAID) cause Windows to become deactivated? No Hard Drive changes were made. I will give it some time to see if it comes back, but this is strange. I do have Media Center installed, possibly the...

Hello Everyone, Just a little bit ago i did a routine virus scan on my windows 7 Partition on my pc. I used avast!!, malwarebytes antimalware and superantispyware. Super antispyware detected an infection known as trojan.agent/gen-sirefef on my xp partition and the infection was sucessfully...

Windows will not load or recover, no safe mode. Ok, so yesterday I tried to use the Win7 backup tool. I had a 200 gb hdd as a second drive that I usually keep copies of all my folders on. The backup utility said there was not enough space on that drive for a backup, so I formatted the drive...

Anyone got a clue how to fix it?? already searched for it using google..but couldnt get a step by step solution.. i got the system repair disc created from another computer.. tried startup repair, it says no error..and also i havent got a restore point..

Hi, a few days ago when I started my PC, windows went into startup repair, I let it run a few times and about by the fourth retry I realized something was wrong. I restarted my computer and tried again, same thing. I managed to get into system restore by clicking cancel before system repair...

[I'm really struggling to type this on my phone] (Fixed the grammar on another computer), basic info: I can't boot my computer in normal mode or safe mode. When I try to do so, after the "starting windows" page the only things that come up are my mouse, a black screen/background, and a...

I'm sure there is a thread somewhere regarding my issue, but the issue is too general for me to fine-tune my search and find it. So, for that, my apologies. My issue is this: 2 year old build been working just fine. Suddenly now I'm getting many programs "Not Responding", screen goes pale...

Hello, I've had an ongoing war with my PC for four days now. I have Windows 7 and it refuses to start up. Originally I tried starting up normal, it gave me two choices: system repair or start as normal. If I chose normal it would show the windows logo then reset. If I chose repair it would turn...

Hi I'm new here and I desperately need some help, Last night I Updated my nVidia graphics driver and that all went well. I was just watching youtube videos and plaing an online game (League of Legends) when I thought that It's time for me to get some sleep but I accidently left my laptop on...

Hi Everyone, just joined the community. I recently purchased an Alienware m17x R3 laptop. It has worked just fine for about a month. Last night, after I went to bed, I got a BSOD. When I found it this morning, it said the problem was in igdpmd64.sys. I tried rebooting, but just after the Win 7...

I do not know what I do but I have formatted a local disk C in my laptop and now I can not start the boot because the system has gone by I formatted a local disk C .. How do I solve this problem. Do I have to use DVD windows 7 because there are file boot. T.Q sorry my bad english.

First off I'm sure there are many threads on this issue but, I am on my iPod and it takes forever to load and I just don't feel like searching on this thing. I am experiencing a"startuprepairoffline" problem. I try to start my computer and it shows a "launch start up repair" or a "start windows...

Lenovo Y460P running windows 7 home premium, 750gb hdd. Ok, so I just bought one of the 120gb Intel 330 series SSD's. I also bought a notebook HDD caddy so I could replace my dvd drive with this ssd. I was successful in replacing the dvd drive with the ssd, and was able to install games and play...

Hello I know i'm a new user but i arrived here so you can help me fix a problem I have with my pc. Yesterday i wanted to change my OS to windows 7 64bits (I had windows 7 32bits before and worked just fine). The installation goes well but when windows install tries to reboot to complete the...

So I just got my old computer up and running. I haven't installed anything, except put files from my other computer on it so I can sell that one. Problem is, after two days of it working fine, it says windows 7 won't start. I have tried the system repair and the system restore, along with a...

Hello - last weekend I was trying to recover the contents of a failed hard drive to a new hard drive using Windows System Repair Disc and Windows System Image. Thanks to this forum I finally was able to successfully restore the image. Everything is working fine, but here is my question - the...

Hello, I got some serious problems. About one week ago I accidentally cut off power of my pc while he was updating. When rebooting I got nothing but a blank desktop image, unable to give any input (mouse, keyboard, control + shift + delete). Control + shift + delete made the screen go black, so...

Hey, I was playing Skyrim, closed it and steam and only had firefox running, left computer for ~5 min, when came back, I had BSOD. I shut computer and restarted it, now it gives on start BSOD. It has done this couple times before, but then it usually starts to work instantly after BSOD or...

I just tried sfc/scannow and I got the following message: There is a system repair pending which requires a reboot to complete. Restart windows and try sfc again. I'm thinking this repair pending is from the chldsk/r I completed previously. This is great, except when I reboot, the repair...