windows upgrade

So I've been running Vista Business until today. My dvd drive has worked fine until I finished the Win7 Pro (32 bit) installation, and now my dvd drive is not listed in "my computer" or "device manager" at all. I installed windows 7, so of course it works outside of windows...and I can still...

Want to install Windows 7 on second drive....How? I am currently on Vista which is on C: drive, and I want to install Windows 7 on F: drive. How can I do that? Also how will I select which Windows I want to log on to? Thanks.

hello all. i have network computers in my home with 2 client computers and 1 server. on the server i store all of my pictures in a different partition. I have tagged in the past all of my pictures using the "image gallery" app (I think its MSN app). Now, i upgraded all the computers to be using...

I have set up a Vista SP2 install I am going to in-place upgrade it to Windows 7 Ultimate (just playing, remember). What I would like are any suggestions from forum members as to what software I might install prior to the upgrade which might have shown a tendancy to mess up the Windows 7...

I’ve upgraded my Laptop from Vista to Windows 7 - all appears to be working OK except Internet Explorer 8. When I try to connect to the internet, IE displays the “Internet Explorer cannot display the webpageâ€Â￾ error – however Firefox has no problem connecting to the...

Hi all I know there are several install threads, but I am not the most techie minded and get confused easily so thought I would start my own thread to keep track. Right I got win 7 upgrade student version, and new ssd to put it on, and installed it and works fine, but when I went to register...

My concern: If I completely re-install windows vista 64-bit via format, then apply a windows 7 home premium upgrade. Will it be corrupted due to two different operating systems being installed to complete the windows 7 package If I paid $199.00 for a full version and installed it then I am...

I have a Matrox M9120 PCIe x16 graphics card. It was running fine in Vista x64 with the 1.0.3.35 driver. I ran the Windows 7 x64 upgrade, and everything seemed to be OK until I discovered that I couldn't open Windows Media Center or view DVDs or other videos. I tried to upgrade to the latest...

"Unidentified Network" problem, no solutions working -- EDIT: Problem solved The "unidentified network" problem seems to be fairly widespread. In my case, I just upgraded my computer from 32-bit XP to 64-bit 7 via custom install of a Windows 7 Home Premium Upgrade Pack. Some basic details of...

I have been scouring the forums trying to get this issue resolved to no avail... please help :razz: Im running a Sony Vaio VGN-SZ430N with GeForce Go 7400, and just upgraded to Win 7 Ult 32 from Vista Biz 32. After the upgrade everything appeared to be working fine, but now i have backlight...

I bought my computer in beginning of September... which I can order free Windows 7 upgrade from the company of my computer. The company is Gateway and before when i was trying to order Windows 7, a lot problems happened and i lost the faith to Gateway. Luckily they finally gave me order...

Hi, I recently downloaded Windows 7 Professional 32-bit and when I run the "Win7-P-Retail-en-us-x86" it gets about a third of the way through "Unloading the box" when I get an error message saying "An error was encountered. Unspecified error". Does anybody know why I'm getting this message? If...

How I wish I listened to my head not my heart. I wanted Windows 7 to be a success because I like using Microsoft's software, I'm not a Mac fan simply because I never used one. A couple of months ago I bought an Acer Aspire 5810T, great computer but with Vista installed. No problem I thought, I...

hi ho ! I'm new here and my english aint the best since its not my mother tongue. so pls forgive my bad english, hope you'll understand my questions anyway i am a student and like to take advantage of this cool offer of M for students regarding Windows 7 currently i run : Vista...

ok so ever since i installed windows 7 ive had a few problems most of them ive worked out i did a clean install of windows 7 professional from vista home premium as most of you know i wasnt able to just upgrade but i notice that my battery life is terrible...worse than when i had vista after...

I have been running Windows 7 Enterprise 64-bit RTM happily for a few weeks now. All of a sudden my mmachine freaked out. I have an older USB flash memory card reader mounted in a 3.5" bay in the front of my computer. I have had no problems with it conected previously. The other day I needed to...

Hi everyone i was randomly searching the web and came upon this web page : Link Removed confirming that i can upgrade from rc1 to rtm ultimate However it doesn't tell me if what version to buy windows 7 ultimate upgrade or...

Hi all, I did a search on this and I cannot find that the problem has been resolved, not in a way that works for me anyway. Issue: when I try to open C:\Documents & Settings I get "acess denied". This despite that my being logged in as admin. I mean, I installed Windows 7 RC1 on the machine...

I'm running XP in a BootCamp partition on my iMac. I would like to upgrade the XP with Windows 7 when it is available. I have ordered the upgrade version. The Mac BootCamp doesn't let you use upgrade versions for Windows, because you have no way to verify that the earlier operating system was...

Hello, I have Windows 7 curently installed on my personal computer. I uninstalled Windows XP to get it. After trying Windows 7 I like it alot except I changed my mind. I would like to have Windows XP installed on the machine just in case I ever need it. I want to keep Windows 7 as the primary...