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I made a thread on another forum about this, so I'm just copy and pasting what I wrote so I don't have to write another essay. Hi, So last night I went to reformat my laptop, halfway through I thought nah I don't wanna do this anymore so I clicked cancel. Now whenever I try to turn on my...

Okay so I'm kinda new here :)) So I'm kinda curious if it is possible to upgrade to Windows 7 from a USB Drive. I have a laptop currently using Windows Vista Home Premium - 32 bit and I wanted to upgrade to Windows 7 with the Windows 7 Home Premium - 32 bit ISO I downloaded. I can't use the...

Hi, I have tried to use this Link Removed to connect an old 250 gb Samsung sata hard drive to my PC. Windows won't recognise it as a hard drive/partition - the USB adapter device is recognised, and via Devices & Printers, it shows the drive, but not as a USB External Drive, (see image) Link...

hello, ,,,, i have dell inspiron 17R with win7 ,, i used to work with my ipod nano and my friend iphone perfectly ........... but now when i plug it into an usb drive ,,, i got connected on the ipod but nothing appear on computer neither on itunes ........ when i go to device manager and then...

Not sure if am placing this trend in the right place.........but I am having problem with my USB pen drive (SanDisk Cruzer Blade 4GB). My pen drive was working fine until last night when I plugged it in and got a message saying "USB Device Not Recognized". Since then every time I plug it in I...

Recently, I've been unable to access my F: drive. When I double click on the drive I get en error that says "Application Not Found". I can, however right click on the drive and open it that way, it's just extremely annoying. It doesn't matter what device is set as the F: drive, be it a UBS...

I'm using an HP laptop and made a bootable flash key with the Microsoft utility (which I downloaded from Microsoft) to make a Windows 7 installation. I (supposedly) changed the boot order in the bIOS to look first at the key. Didn't work - booted directly into Windows 7 (seemingly bypassed the...

So my fiance plugged in a USB drive with music from limewire..security essentials popped up with a Trojan downloader...I hit fix, then said it was OK. I turned it on this morning and it popped up again. So I'm running a full scan, but what do you think? What should I do to get rid of this. It...

A friend of mine called me over because he was having troubles, and it seems that I cannot run any program (Firefox, avast antivirus, EVERYTHING) and I tried putting malwarebytes on his computer, which I had the install file on my USB drive, it wouldn't open up and install boxes whatsoever. On...

I just got parts for my new pc, but I'm not sure how to do a clean install of Windows on it. My current pc came with it pre-installed (no disk with it) and I have the serial key for it. Anyone know how I can do this? I have no idea. Also I have an 8GB usb drive and 500 fresh CDs.

I'm been working on this problem for over a day now and now I'm stumped. I've read dozens of threads and blogs all over the internet concerning this "operating system not found" problem but none of their problems seem to be the problem that I have. My computer just got extremely laggy and froze...

Hi. I have a text file on my portable hard disk (WD 250 GB) named urgenttttttttttt.txt you would have already assumed how important this file would be and it is updated daily. The size of the file is 545 kb which is HUGE for a notepad. I opened the file 3 days ago and it gives me an error...

I am getting problem while installing windows 7 on my single partition hard disk. I am using bootable USB drive for the installation. The error I get is "Setup was unable to create new system partition or locate an existing system partition. See the setup log files for more information". When I...

I recently replaced a Freeagent Pro with a Goflex Desk. Both the new and old drives were permanently assigned drive letter H and the new drive fitted in seamlessly about a week ago. The old drive is not used My Synctoy backups (run via Task Scheduler) all worked fine daily from 28th July...

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Hello! I've moved tons of files to an external hard drive [Samsung external USB HD (FAT32)]. After that, I've tried to eject the device in Windows 7, via Safely Remove Hardware but Windows said that the device was in use, even though everything (applications and windows) were closed. I decided...

i am running windows 7 and about a 3 months ago i had to shut my computer down becouse it crash apon restarting i got a error saying "disk read error please press Ctr Alt Del to restart your computer", i would do this a few times then i would get a new error saying "An Unexpected I/O Error has...

"Bootmgr is missing". I compressed my entire C drive. When I rebooted I got the error "Bootmgr is compressed" I don't have a optical drive, so I made a bootable USB drive using YUMI 0.2.3 and added the windows 7 recovery ISO. The USB drive boots and I can enter the recovery console, etc...

Hello, I am trying to install Windows 7 Professional onto a computer from an 8GB USB drive. I can boot from the USB fine but when it asks you choose where you want to install Windows it can't find any drives and it says I must load a driver. This is strange because if I put the hard drive into...

Hello. I was just wondering if someone could tell me if it is possible to make a flash drive password protected or is it just the one's that already have the software installed when you buy them for a password? Thank You. And for the first person with the correct answer, an all expense...