vista upgrade

HP Pavilion dv6768se. Computer would not boot up - only a white screen showed. Eventually was able to get the computer to start up in safe mode only. The original settings of the computer was to be run on Windows Vista, however I have upgraded to Windows 7. Could not perform a backup and...

hello, i installed win 7 a year or so as an upgrade from vista and since then the HD is way smaller. I wanted to know if and how i can find if it kept the vista data or made a backup of it and its hidden. Or how can i see hidden areas of a HD? I have a toshiba pc and i remember fiddleing around...

Over the years, I have gained the desire to revert my computer to factory settings, or rather to the state of a brand new computer with a freshly installed OS. The only problem is that my computer doesn't have any of the convenient services that allow a factory reset to happen internally and...

Hi all. I'm getting an error, but not seeing a viable solution anywhere online. Last year, I had upgraded from Windows Vista on my laptop to Windows 7. To do this, I purchased the .iso from Microsoft's website. I burned it to a disc and everything worked perfectly. This year, while doing my...

Hi, I have a little/big problem with DVD drive :frown: ...with upgrading from Vista to Win7 the DVD drive DVD drive not being recognised.... Device manager or My computer. However when a disc is inserted into the drive, the drive then shows up. It is exact problem like was described in this...

Hey all, I am new to windows 7. I received this computer from a friend in a trade and ran my virus scan and all to make sure it was clean. The only problem I am having is that the computer originally came with windows vista, he upgraded it to 7, and when he did that installed a flight...

I screwed up - never done that before! :) Was giving an older computer I no longer use to someone - has MS xp on it. Went through to delete all my personal files off it and saw a folder - "JIim", my name and thought it just contained my personal stuff. Deleted that folder - appears that...

First off I'm running Widws 7 Home Premium as an upgrade from Windows Vista Home Premium. I was using our main PC at home this evening when for no reason whatsoever it just shut down and went to restart itself. When it tried to reboot Startup Repair started up instead. It goes through a...

About a year ago, I did a clean install from vista 32 bit to Windows 7 professional 64 bit. Everything went smoothly and I had no installation issues. A couple of days ago, my hard drive crashed so I put in a new one and used my computer's recovery cd to load windows xp back on the system. I...

I bought my laptop with Vista as the original OS (August 2010). Upgraded to 7. I've had no problem whatsoever with downloading, installing and configuring updates. Until now. I have 1 important update Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (KB976932). I am getting this error: 0x800f0826. No other...

Hellooo!!! Those are the problems that I get on my Win 7... First, when I turn on my laptop (HP Pavilion dv6000), after the part that is you can choose F10/F12/etc it stucks there for 1min and then a page comes and says: Operating System not found. but I should restart it many times till...

I recently had my laptop crash on me, I recently returned from Iraq and lost all of my recovery disks for vista, so I decided to upgrade to windows 7. I purchased an oem install, and got win7 installed and working, but it decided to stop working for me. When I try to start windows normally the...

I've looked for driver updates on Gateways website for my PS/2 keyboard. Alas there are none. I even had a live chat w/ support and they said since my computer was no longer under warranty I had to pay for extended cust. serv. He said it was an issue w/ the upgrade but refused to give me any...

Hey Guys, May just be a stupid problem but is rather agravating. Just installed win 7 on my PC upgraded from Vista. Vista ran pretty good but was slow and tempermental every once in a while. After fighting back and forth to get all my drivers, bluetooth keyboard working and such I just...

I have an HP Pavilion tx 2000. It had Windows Vista on it but I just installed Windows 7 Professional. Since installing it, I cannot connect wirelessly to my home network. I can SEE the network but it says it cannot connect to it. When I plug into a the router with ethernet it connects to the...

I have a NAS (Western Digital MyBook World Edition) and recently I've upgraded my OS to Windows 7 64 bit (from 32-bit Vista) and I'm experiencing strange problems with NAS presently. When I start it up while Windows is working the system discovers it and allows access, but when I shut the...

I have am partially blind so if this is posted somewhere, please direct me in the right direction. Acer Aspire 7220 laptop that came with Windows Vista. Someone update to have W7 Ultimate 32 bit about 2 months ago. I have updated all drivers, from what I can tell, and my computer shuts down...

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...

S.O.S PLEASE HELP!!!!!! Hi everyone!I have problem with windows installation.About a month ago I decided to upgrade from vista to 7.I made a bootable usb flash disk and installed the os without any problem.A week ago I reformatted my hard disk and tried to install again the same...

Hi, Incase anyone asks, I have searched around as much as possible before asking this, but I have been unable to find an answer. I have upgraded from Vista to 7. While I was using Vista I had a seperate partition that had all the software that originally came with my laptop. Now I have...