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I am running Windows 10 Technical Preview on my laptop currently on build 9926. Whenever I try to run Windows Update it either fails or installs the updates but I get BOSD System Thread Exception not handled in an infinite bootloop. I am able to run System Restore but it fails but it allows me...

There is a method for taking the ESD download of build 10041 and converting it to an ISO image that can then be burned to DVD or placed on a USB drive to perform a clean installation of the latest Windows 10 Technical Preview build. read more Continue reading...

I am using Windows 10 Build 9926 and trying to create a 8.1 win2go disk. I am using Aomei to create it. I cannot get it to boot up. I have set my first boot priority using USB UEFI Hard Disk to boot into. PNY 32 gig USB 2.0 Flash Drive. What am I doing wrong?

Hi all, My apologies if this is a repeated question; I am at my limit with computing today and have been scrolling through forums to find people with similar issues as I have. I had installed Windows 10 TP from Windows 8.1, and after realising what a mistake that was, I tried to revert back...

HI, I have been running into an issue and see if anyone else has had the same experience and what was the resolution. I am trying to get windows 8 to go, to work from a usb flash drive. I do all the steps that are necessary in order to get windows 8 to boot from the usb flash drive and to set...

Hello guys, I need some help with my "Windows 7 professional" computer. My computer is suddenly not detecting external USB hard drive While trying to fix this issue I came across 2 further issues: 1) The command prompt window when opened closes immediately due to which I am unable to type in...

I have an external USB DVD drive connected through cable and want to find out the current firmware version. I want to use NOT a diagnostic program like AIDA4 but the Win7 internal methods. Therefore I right clicked on the drive in Windows Explorer then the "Hardware" tab, marked the drive and...

I try to back up my files using Windows 8.1 file history in System and Security>File History. The default drive is to one letter belonging to a USB stick. I am not able to select another drive. The USB stick does not have the storage required to save my back up files. How am able to change...

I am a mac user but woud like to install windows 8 or 8.1 wtever on my mac. I would like to do bootcamp for this. I found a stduent version of windows 8 and purchased that but it turns out it's an exe file and I couldnt open it on my mac. It seems that I need an iso file but whats that...

Dears I bought asus notebook From 5 months installed windows 8.1 on it then I get partition recovery to my usb drive And formated my hard then I restored my hard but it know deactivated what can I do please

I am seeking to get rid of unwanted material on my system prior to backing it up. I have been surprised to learn from programs such as Glary Utilities Disk Space Analyzer that I have on my external hard drive F a huge System Volume Information folder--16.32 GB. Windows Explorer tells me when I...

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Hi, yesterday I wanted to delete everything on my PC so I put Windows 8.1 on a USB and started the recovery process. I read online that Windows would remember my product key in the bios but It's now asking for a product key. I got Windows pre installed so I don't have the key anymore. Can I get...

Hi, I have Win 7 Pro. This has never happened to me before. I have an external USB drive of backups from an XP SP3 box. I want to copy them over to an external USB on my Win 7 box. I open 2 explorers. one in each box and 'copy'. It shows as Preparing to Copy and Calculating but then...

Afternoon i was trying to install windows 7 onto my cruzer glide 64GB flash drive so that i could have another os to use without updating laptop hard drive however im having trouble installing it onto the flash even though i have formatted the flash into a ntfs as i saw on a different tutorial...

My Acer Aspire A7600U-UR24 came with windows 8. I made a recovery drive by choosing "create recovery drive" in windows 8. After making the drive i installed windows 8.1 from DVD. Some time later I tried to restore it back to factory with my recovery usb. Every time I try I get "windows cannot...

Hi, I have a problem with my hdd. It hasn't fallen or anything but just all of a sudden it doesn't show up in My Computer. Before, it was showing up but was not accessible but this time when i try to change letter, it tells me that the disk management is not up-to-date. I have a Samsung M3 1TB...

Hi: I have or had multiple files and documents backed up on several computers and hard drives. They are in folders, in subfolders, in subfolders. Over the years they've been copied from computer to computer and through various external drives. Recently some documents have vanished from D...

What to do if i hve nt taken backup of programs like wifi, nvidia graphic,etc and have formated my windows 7 ultimate Hp pavilion with usb flash drive

I'm having this annoying issue for quite some time now and I wanted to ask all good folks here how to set up a write protection on a specific file or folder which is saved on external USB drive (namely, a phone) ? Files in a certain folder are showing up by themselves and take a ridiculously...