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Have just installed Windows 7. The sound very bad, with clicks and lots of distortion. Moving volume up/down causes crackles. Soundblaster X-Fi on Gigabyte GA-M56s-S3 motherboard with the correct drivers, Windows updates and latest BIOS. I have kept XP on another drive and swap the boot drive...

I set up a dual boot on a 500 GB SSD. Cloned Windows 7 from a smaller SSD then installed Windows 8 on a second partition. It takes a full 60 seconds to reach the dual boot screen. It then loads very quickly. Here is what I've done to try and correct the problem: 1. Refreshed windows 8 2. removed...

I have a boot mgr problem. When I boot up I get two choices one is a good working win7 and the other is a partial win 7 install that comes up as windows setup. What I need to do is remove the win set up choice and nothing I've tried seems to do that. What do I need to do to get rid of the win...

I have had no problems with my VM Vector Holiday edition 2010 until now. Only modifications were 1) addition of OSZ SSD (6 months ago), 2) upgrade of video card (2 months ago) [3) new logitech keyboard/mouse 2 months ago.] Crashes started today, first in Skyrim, and then during normal use...

This is another follow-up thread but I need to know how to use it (easily) I have tried to use the normal routine to recover my profile: 1. create a new profile 2. Copy every file from the old to the new with the exception of: ntuser.ini ntuser.dat ntuser.dat.log However this does not...

so guys, i had originally windows vista on drive C and then i installed windows 7 on drive E, then i wanted to try windows 8 so i deleted windows vista form drive C and installed windows 8 ... now i tried deleting/formating Drive C to put another OS on it but i couldnt delete the windows folder...

First post here and need some help. I have an image on bootable media (DVD). The image spans 3 dvds broken down into SWM files. I have been able to combine the SWM's with imagex into 1 large wim. In viewing the contents the WIM contains 2 images (image 1 & image 2). During the initial image...

Whenever the computer is shut down for more than a few hours (either after work or when I wake up), the computer loads as normal, except that when the Windows logo comes up and I wait for the lights to appear and converge into the Windows symbol, instead nothing happens and the computer just...

Free Cloud Storage - MediaFire Above link has all the requested info, including screenshots. Problem being completely random Blue Screens ruining my day on a new setup. I've had a mix of graphics errors whilst benchmarking (only whilst connected to the internet does it crash) and a range...

LinuxBSDos.com: One tool that has seen very little or no change over the past several releases in Ubuntu Desktop is the installation program. So it is somewhat surprising that some users are having problems dual-booting Windows 7 and Ubuntu 12.04 using a tutorial written for Ubuntu 11.04. Link...

I started to build a new computer, Fractal Design Arc Midi ATX case MSI 990FXA-GD80 motherboard AMD FX-6100, AM3+, 3,3GHz, 6-core processor Noctua processor cooler NH-D14 OCZ 120GB Agility 3 Series SSD Seagate 1TB Barracuda 7200.12, SATA III HDD Kingston Hyper X Genesis 2x4GB, DDR3 1600MHz, CL9...

My old computer's motherboard died on me and so I replaced the whole computer with a new Dell 620. It comes with an Intel i3 processor, 4 gigs of memory, a 500 gig hard drive and Windows 7-64 bit. Not a bad computer for $399. I was able to plug in my old hard drive and retrive most of my old...

For some reason my cementmixer (brain) told me I could set up W8 in the following manner BUT it was a failure. I used this procedure over 30 years ago on large IBM mainframes. The following was my logic: On the C drive I only have 1 partition which is used for W7 files etc. I used diskmgmt...

how can i load win 8 to a partition other than c? i want to load it as a dual boot, and don't want to load it over my win 7. so why doesn't it give me this option? surely these guys didn't think everyone would load it on their c drive, did they?

Hello, I have recently purchased a new pc. Specs: Gigabyte GA-A55M-S2H AMD A4 3400 4GB RAM Western Digital 500GB HDD Samsung DVDWBD SH-B083L ATA RADEON HD 4670 AWARD BIOS v6 I wanted to have a dual boot setup using Windows 7 Home Edition and Windows XP (neither are OEM) using 2...

Hi there! I am running Windows 7 home premium 64bit. When the notebook boots up, I get two options: Windows XP Pro 64bit 2003 setup and/or Windows 7. How I could remove the unwanted Windows XP boot? which is the {identifier} of Windows XP Pro 64bit 2003 that I should delete? in MS-DOS...

I've just setup/installed Windows 7 32-Bit and looks like everything is OK but I installed a virtual CD program/s (i.e. Daemon Tools, PowerISO and or MagicISO) my system is not detecting the virtual CD's that Daemon Tools, PowerISO and or MagicISO have created. can you suggest any procedures for...

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...

If you're thinking about taking the new Windows 8 Developers Preview for a test drive, you may consider watching this video. Dual booting Windows 7 with the Windows 8 Developers Preview is pretty straight forward and not unlike we've all done dual boot scenarios in the past. Some folks have...

I just burnt the latest Mint Linux 64 Bit to a DVD. I have 4 internal hard drives, C: contains W7 64 bit D has vista 32 bit Drives E and F store backups of Vista and W7 dual boot configuration. I also have a 1 TB Hitachi external drive a 1TB Seagate Drive on which I could move my backups. If I...