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Everything I did recently that might contribute to the problem- I was hoping to make a dualboot comp by adding windows XP to a new partition. I created the new partition with 20gb. (From the 500 of my actual harddrive) But before I actually installed on that, I got distracted with a second...

Hi all! I had my laptop running last night and I woke up this morning and my computer was frozen. It wasn't the "blue screen of death" as many mention as it was simply frozen but when I turned it back on (and continue to turn it back on) it gets stuck on "Starting Windows" without even...

I recently bought an ASUS N53SV, due to problems that resulted in frequent blue screen and crashes(Mozilla, Chrome etc). I decided to download and re-install a fresh copy of Windows 7 Professional 64 bits from digitalriver. Beforehand i ran diskchck, everythings seemed fine. I tried methods...

Help a Brotha out please. I created an answer file using the windows AIK tool called Windows System Image manager tool. Great tool by the way! Well even better once I get my Answer file to boot from the USB. Ok back to my time question. I created the answer file and copied it to my USB...

Here's my idea: I put in a USB key, it boots into DOS, determines which model the PC is, and runs the corresponding BIOS update. I have everything setup except for the "determines which model the PC is" part. Right now I just have a system of menus to keyboard through, but I would like to...

Hello. I am considering adding a dual boot to my laptop and am hoping for some step by step instruction. I want to maintain my primary OS on primary drive C adopt dual boot have second OS reside on USB key or USB external drive. Normal use I would boot from my primary drive When...

I have Windows 7 installed on my laptop.I want to use some games for Windows xp.But i tried windows xp mode and it want work becouse i have low memory just 1gb in my windows 7 then in windows xp mode i have just 256 mb. And i want to install windows xp in dual boot with windows 7 but when i...

To do a total cleanup of my laptop and reinstall Win 7 32bit. It is a: Dell Precision Mobile WorkStation M6400. But a problem immediately with the error message: "A key driver needed for CD - DVD drive is missing" Then just my DVD / CD may malfunction (rails sometimes with CDs)...

I have read most of the posts about Windows 7 and how it no longer has Boot.ini. I am having a problem with my pc and I have tried everything. So... now I am posting for help. Info: This is originally a Dell Desktop that came with Windows xp home edition. A few years back, we installed and...

Hey guys, long time lurker, first time poster. I recently replaced all the parts in my computer except for the graphics card. So now that I have a practically new computer, I tried installing Windows 7. I have the Windows 7 Pro 64-bit DVD that I purchased at student pricing. My motherboard...

First 3 downloads of the iso weren't complete...I didn't notice until I tried 2 burns. Then I resorted to downloading elsewhere and after 3 more downloads I got the right file(verified by hash) for 64 bit Windows Pro English. Burned the iso to my thumb drive fine, seemed to install fine and...

hi guyss i want to know something...before i asked a Q that i want to make backtup of my pc C drive so i dun have to install OS just i run the backup...n many voted for acronis tre image software...i also found it on top ten reviews website...it was ranked much above... but there is still a...

I have an eee pc small laptop which I bought few days ago. Today I deleted the log in name for the Administrator and now windows 7 asks for username and password. I have not entered any username and password initially so I have no idea what I should enter for username and password and for...

Hi again, I have a question how to update BIOS on Win7 x64 ultimate. I downloaded newest version of BIOS for my laptop (Toshiba Tecra A8-185 PTA83E). After unzipping there is only .exe file. When I try to run that file it says, that my OS is unsupported. When I run it in compability mode (with...

[SOLVED] 0xc00000e9 After Install Wow... This install is driving me nuts. I've never had this much trouble installing an operating system. Here goes.. I'm trying to get Windows 7 64-bit installed. First I was getting an error about corrupt files during extraction, so I swapped out my RAM and...

ok i've of this little netbook that has no optical drives and windows 7 which is of course... on a dvd. now last time i needed to install XP on it i used syspart because there was no option to boot from USB. here is the how to i followed: 1) Install the hard drive as a slave in a working...

The major cause of problems when UPDATING from Vista to Windows 7 are programs like Antivirus, Firewalls, and the dozen or so programs that are loading when the system boots up. Save yourself a LOT of headaches and turn them all off and run Msconfig and uncheck all the boxes under startup. Then...

As i don't have a DVD burner on my PC, I've been trying to make an bootable USB stick but when i try run the command to make it so it can boot but i get an error saying that it cant run it. Though found this guide Link Removed, which says i should use a 32bit win7 iso 1st then change 2 a 64bit...

Windows 7 boot.ini [Solved] Hello users of this forum, Im in big trouble, cause i need to access my computer but it´s not booting, when time to boot it tells me that the boot.ini is damaged. The main problem is that i only have here a DVD with windows RT, and now im running Windows 7...

So i couldn't load Windows 7 from my LG Supermulti, so i used the clever USB trick to install it, the problem is that even when im in the Windows 7 OS it's still not recognized. I would assume that the problem would be the DVD Drive itself, but i am also running Windows XP and the drive works...