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I'm trying to install Win 8 Pro. After a few mins into the beginning of the install, I receive the following error "Windows cannot read the <Productkey> setting from the unattend answer file." Pretty much all the solutions I've come across during a search deal with this error and installing in a...

Hi Guys, I have a fresh install of Windows 8 Pro on a new PC and have done for some weeks. On Friday i hit the shutdown option Update and Restart. On the Saturday (yesterday) I turned on my machine to greeted with the Windows 8 Logo then a blank screen and doesn't boot at all into Windows...

When did computers start using this thing called ueifi I believe? Confusing to say the least and for me at least not that easy to get to. The only complaint as such I have with my new Sony laptop. I never can seem to remember which function key gets me there, and from what I have seen of it...

Hello all, I decided to come here and try out the windows7forums and see if they want my company and helpful insight. I was banned from sevenforums for, you guessed it, no good reason. (They seem to have a track record of doing that.) I hope, as I have heard, that Windows7Forums will treat me...

I have been playing around with the Secure Boot feature to see if I could tell what properties it might show. Currently, to enable the full Secure Boot feature, I have to use the on board graphics, since my Graphics card does not have a UEFI Op Rom. So far, I know Windows 7 will not boot on...

I installed Windows 7 x64 Professional on a GPT partition and am booting through UEFI. The floppy controller is detect but the floppy disk drive itself is not detected. Does anyone know why this is? I know I am not the only one with this situation.

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...

I have a parallel (independent drives) install of Windows 7 and Windows 8 and choose which one from the boot device menu. Ever since I have been running Windows 8 CP and RP, I have been getting Chkdsk requests whenever I boot into Windows 7 after having been in Windows 8. Has anyone else...

I'm using a GA z77x-UD5H and it has its own UEFI dualBios. I am using an external dvd drive to try and install windows 7 because I just built this pc. I have nothing on my HDD yet. All I am trying to do is figure out how to boot using the DVD drive to install windows.

It has come to light, that a UEFI installed system, will fail to boot if a secondary drive is attached which contains logical partitions. This would have to be an MBR configured drive, of course, but if it has at least one primary and one extended partition, it will stop Windows 7 and Windows 8...

I have recently bought Asus G75VW and tried to install W7 DVD as i usually use to but I could not install W7 because it was a gpt partition= Disk 0 containes 4 partitions: 1=System 200MB, 2= MSR 128MB, 3= gpt 95,4 GB and 4=Data 118,4 GB. Disk 0 is a SSD. Disk 1 is 750GB so thera are two...

Consider the following the scenario: You have a Windows 7 UEFI machine, when you press the space bar during boot, the system does not pause resume from hibernate. What happens instead is that resume continues and the system will boot to Windows 7. Note... Link Removed

Consider the following the scenario: You have a Windows 7 UEFI machine, when you press the space bar during boot, the system does not pause resume from hibernate. What happens instead is that resume continues and the system will boot to Windows 7. Link Removed

Okay, so I finally got a wireless card in today but my windows 7 is not reconizing it, even after installing the latest Link Removed. I have tried both PCI slots on my MB (ASRock 970 Extreme 3) and both lights on the card are lighting up in each one. I even went into the UEFI to make sure PCI...

Consider the following scenario: You have a computer which uses a Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI). You are attempting to install Windows Preinstallation Environment (WinPE) to the hard disk, according to . Or, you are attempting to deploy a... Link Removed

On Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 platforms that support UEFI, you may see a prompt for BitLocker Recovery Key if you use UEFI BIOS with Compatibility Support Module (CSM) enabled. This occurs when there is a USB device inserted while the machine... Link Removed

Hi all My computer is 6months old ASRock z68 Extreme4 MOBO i52500k OCZ Vertex 2 120Gb SSD - Main drive Samsung 1 Tb drive - storage drive initially i installed a legit copy of Windows 7 Professional and was able to select both drives at the "Where do you want to install Windows"...

Windows 7 Ultima 64 bit What does means: "Could not obtain Boot Entries Enumerator, UEFI is not enabledCould not obtain Boot Order, UEFI is not enabled" and shall I do something about it? and how?

Fixes an issue in Windows 7 and in Windows Server 2008 R2 in which the startup process stops at a black screen if the UEFI mode is enabled. More...

System displays a warning message "Windows cannot be installed to this disk" when installing Windows on MBR partition in UEFI mode Link Removed