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Reinstalling windows after windows recovery options failing to help

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The problem is during the middle of the installation, at the expanding windows processes it says there's multiple corrupt files on my C: harddrive, which is where I'm attempting to install the OS on. It says to run chkdsk utility utility, but anything beyond the screen with bios always says there's a disk load error to start, or another error which I can't remember but would only allow me to...

install.esd on Win7

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There is a file, (dated 10/26/2012), on my Windows 7 [C:/ESD/Windows/install.esd]. If I convert this to an .iso, how can I tell if this will install win7 for me?, maybe this is sp1? I am used to doing this with Win 10, but not Win7

Help Please. Windows 7 64x Install Error 0x80070017

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Starting from the top. I have a Lenovo G580 laptop. It had a hard drive failure. I got the Drive replaced and the vendor added a windows 7 ultimate x32 which was cracked. Since the laptop came with a genuine windows 7 home premium 64x installed when i brought it, I downloaded a similar version and attempted to make a fresh install. Now this is where the real fun begins. During the install,...

Multiple Audit Failures for same Event ID

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(If this is not the correct sub-forum, can an Admin please move it? Thanks) For various reasons, I chose to have a look at various event logs on my PC (Win7/Firefox). Should I be concerned that I have, literally, thousands of identical "Audit Failure" events (EventID - 4656, Source - AlertSource) logged every day? The object in question is: Object Server: ...

Black screen of death when installing Windows 7 from USB.

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Hello, I have a Samsung NP-N150 mini notebook that I have been trying to install Windows 7 starter back onto. I do not have an external disc drive that I can use so I followed a Youtube video and transferred my files from the Install disc to an 8 GB USB flash drive. I changed the boot order to show the USB flash drive as 1st but when I go to power on with the USB drive plugged in, all I get is...

Reinstallation causing No bootable device, Acer Laptop

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I have just reinstalled the OS on 2 of my computers but am having a very difficult time with my old acer laptop. I have already read many guides and spent many hours trying to resolve this. I really don't know much and should have taken some notes before but felt over confident. There doesn't seem to be many options in the BIOS. Product Name: Aspire 5742Z System BIOS Version: V1.07 ...

did quick reformat, reloaded 7 Home, probable graphic card issue

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I performed a quick reformat of WD 1Tb green hard drive and reloaded W 7 Home 64 bit. I have a home screen at least for a few seconds and then monitor cycles between between Dsub, DVId, S Video, and Composite. Then goes blank for awhile only to repeat. Monitor does not do this when connected to laptop. Can see the screen only on Dsub setting and only for a few secs. It does not let me control...

Windows xp setup error STOP: 0x0000007B

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I have a compaq presario cq57 laptop previosly running windows 7 I took it somewhere to get the memory upgraded and they installed ubuntu for some reason so I wiped the hard drives and inserted my windows xp setup dvd and it always stops with this message: a problem has been detected and windows has been shut down to prevent damage to your computer. If this is the first time you have seen this...

OEM Pro to Retail Pro without a reinstall; just change keys. Possible?

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Title pretty much says it all. If you have Win 7 OEM Pro installed and also have a legit key for Win 7 Retail Pro, can you change to Retail without a reinstall, by just changing keys. What's the procedure? Phone call to MS? Formal deactivation?

Installations Problems and General Questions

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I am trying to set up a number of computers with either 7 Professional or 8.1 for some family members. I don't know whether to advise them to stick with 7 and wait for 10 or go to 8.1 at this time. *Any recommendations as to what i should do for them?* I have noted that application Data in my own instillations is getting rather large. As a consequence, I wanted to move the users folder on...

Can't restore factory settings dell laptop N5010

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Hey guys , please help me out, I am trying restore factory settings of my laptop , in starting I press F8 then it's takes me to repair your computer option , I press enter on it and next window comes , window is loading files ,I have done this many time because window. Is loading going on for hours I do not understand what is this?

SAS Controller Problems

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Hope this is the right forum for this, right where do I start, all I wanted to do was to replace a small ssd (c Drive) with a bigger one which in most part has gone ok but here's the rest, My pc that I bought all configured in the way I'm about to tell you is 6 drives (1 x ssd 4 x hdd 1 x blu-ray) connected to the sata ports on the mother board no problem there all there in windows 7 but here's...

Windows 7

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How do you reinstall windows home premium on Asus laptop , I have got a system image nor repair disk ??

Windows 7 installation error - received "unexpected error"

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Every year I do a clean install due to my kids installing software, etc. Today I attempted the clean install and received an error "The computer restarted unexpectedly or encountered an unexpected error. Windows installation cannot proceed, click OK to restart the installation". I utilized the original Installation disk, wiped the HD and windows attempts to load. I have not altered anything...

How to make dual boot install windows 7 gbt problems.

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I made a partition on harddisk with windows 8.1 already installed, followed the steps on bios to make my usb boot works... it worked the installation of windows 7 started but then i got the message it could not be installed to the disk because of GBT, i have no idea what it is... I used to have 3 systems installed in a other laptop(older) but now with Lenovo and windows 8.1 it seems very...

Please help me understand the file system on my new PC

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I am in the process of migrating to a new Windows 7 computer (Windows 7 Professional 64-bit. I had the data transfer done by a local computer shop, and they did a brilliant job. On my old Windows 7 computer (Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit), my user data was on the C drive, but on the new computer, C is an SSD system drive and the data is on the D drive. For example, on the old machine my photos...

dell n5010 ,cant restore factory setting and new installtion of window

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Hey , i do not understand whats wrond with my laptop, i tried every single option for restore factory settings, f8 even use repair disc during repair disc everything gone alright when there is suppose pop up a window for selecting language it give me a error window, i tried to install window 7 but its not working its starts my laptop as normal, even i press 12 then select the cd/dvd drive to boot...

dell n5010 ,cant restore factory setting and new installtion of window

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Hey , i am trying to factory restore but i am unable to do it, i tried f8, repair disc, f8 got stuck on windows loading files and repair disc gives me an error, then i tried to reinstall windows 7 , i put disc in driver i start the laptop press f12 and its give me boot up option i used cd/dvd but it starting my laptop as normal, i do not whats wrong with tht, if i am using same way on Hp its...

Make UEFI DVD Stick

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I've converted my system from MBR to GPT file system getting ready for Windows 10 upgrade. I have a UEFI mobo and did a fresh install of Windows7 x64. Everything went fine and works great. If I set my UEFI DVD as the primary boot device with a UEFI DVD installed (Windows7 install disk) it will boot first from the DVD. When I remove the disk and restart the computer, it will boot off of the SSD...

New Win7 installation - problems finding HDD at boot up

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Hi all - I have recently upgraded a Samsung netbook from XP to Win 7 32. All seems well at boot up from machine "off" . However when I do a restart (e.g. during a Windows update) the PC does not start Win 7. Oddly, when I hop into the BIOS at start from "off" the HDD is listed and appears in the boot up sequence of devices as expected but when restarting I hop into BIOS to find that the HDD is...
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