I have an MSI Z270M motherboard and i7-7700k cpu running win7 pro on an old SSD, and everything is working fine. This board has an M.2 slot that I would like to use for a new boot drive, so here are my questions...
First the specs from my motherboard manual
Board has 1 x M.2 slot (Key M)
1 - Supports up to PCIe 3.0 x4 and SATA 6Gb/s
2 - Supports 2242 / 2260 / 2280 / 22110 storage...
NVMe SSD on M.2 pci-e running Win7
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Bought USED Laptop - Windows 7 Pro NOT ACTIVATED yet - internet?
Hey Guys,
Hoping someone or collectively can help me?
I bought a USED (looks pretty well taken care of though) laptop off EBAY.
- HP ProBook 6550b - intel CORE i7, 2.67Hz, 4gb, 160GB,
Seller said it has Windows 7 Pro installed - Recent Clean install but NOT ACTIVATED.
- I have not Activated it yet.
I aquired the Laptop basically to run Microsoft Office, Excel, Infopath & Emails &...
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Restoring Laptop back to Factory settings with Toshiba supplied Discs?
Hello,
I can't confirm the media recovery is in the proper place on my *Toshiba C655D-S5086*. I ordered the Discs from Toshiba last week. I have some questions b4 I get started.
*1.* The only changes/upgrades I made was I have the max RAM of 8gb on my system since day one. Im working with the same HDD of 320gb for now (that will be changed to SDD in the next week or so)
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My questions...
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Cannot Install Windows 7 Ultimate x64 - Laptop
Asus Rog GL553VD. The laptop came with Windows 10 Home installed.
I made the partition and tried to install Windows 7 Ultimate. Every time the windows completes its Primary Installation it reboots and then prior starting installing the second phase it shows the Blue Screen and restarts. Keeps on happening.
Couple of changes I have made prior to installing Windows 7.
CSM - Enabled Secure...
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Consensus- deploy OEM imaged machine or Fresh Install
So I have a freshly minted Tier1 who is 6 months into her "new" IT career(never worked in IT previously) who is arguing that taking a new system out of the box and doing an Upgrade from Win 7 Home to Pro is the more expedited and in her words, "less redundant" method to deploy, than to take the time to create a USB installer and build the image from scratch, despite my instructing...
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Using OS storage as cache for HDD
Just wondering if it's possible. I have 64gb SSD which has Windows installed on it. I have 500gb HDD which is my storage.
*So what I would want to do is set aside 20gb on the OS SSD, to use with expresscache (or similar) to cache the HDD.
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Anyone done this? How to install?
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Reinstall options help after Ransomeware infection...
Hello all,
I know clean installs of Windows 7 from an upgrade disk has been discussed to death (everywhere), but I can't seem to find anything about what is needed to do an install if you have to reinstall it either after an infection of replacing a drive. Does the OLD OS HAVE TO INTACT (installed first)? Or can you do a legitimate CLEAN install with an upgrade disk as long as you have proof...
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Solved Clean install, install drivers or win updates first?
Hi all,
I'll be doing a clean install of my system this week but am unsure on if I should either ...
a) Install drivers first after the initial clean install ... then update Windows Updates or ...
b) Install Windows Updates before drivers ... ???
I tend to install Service Pack 1 straight after initial install before the above.
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Solved Use up-to-date drivers or motherboard provided drivers?
Hi all,
I am doing a clean install of my system this week but am unsure if I should be ...
a) Use the up-to-date drivers from specific source (e.g. intel chipset, realtek audio etc) ... or ...
b) Use Asus motherboard specific drivers (Asus P6T in this instance)
Thank in advance for your advice :)
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Which should I install, XP or VISTA
I now have three XP drivers and two PCI cards that I would like to use again.
My desktop has Windows 7 64bit installed and running. There is also a partition
that I have set aside so I can dual-boot another OS. The question is which one
should I use, VISTA or XP.
I tried to install Windows XP but about 40% of the way through the installation it
came to a halt. I tried to find either...
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How to relocate MBR?
I have a dual boot setup between Ubuntu and Windows. Earlier it was Windows 10 but I didn't like it so downgraded to 7
After doing so erased Ubuntu MBR on accident so I fixed that successfully, but now the boot selection screen shows as it did before when I had Windows 10 showing a Windows 10 selection, which when I select it, it then takes me to the Windows 7 boot selection screen with the...
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Moving Windows Partition to Drive C:
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Up to now I have had just the one hard drive of 500GB (on a spare PC) running dual boot Windows 7 and Windows 10. The drive also has a drives D: and E: containing my programs and data respectively. However, I now have a 240GB SSD free and I want to boot the PC from this SSD, preferrably designated drive C: whichever OS I select to use. However, since I already have a drive C: containing...
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sysprep and Custom Installation
Good morning guys
I'm trying create a new custom image with Windows 7 because the image that we are using is old and is impossible to work with new workstation that have Updated Hardware like NVMe Disk, Skylake and also USB 3.0. When i tried to install Windows i was unable to start the installation because i miss usb 3.0 driver. i tried to integrate the USB driver with dism(into boot.wim...
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"You may not have permissions"
I reinstalled my sister's Windows 7 OS. Actually, there was a problem and after three reboots I chose "restore previous session"--and it wiped everything clean and reinstalled from scratch. Oh, thank you, I really needed that.
So I have a few things set up and wanted to download Firefox. When I click on the stub, I get a message that "you may not have the necessary permissions to use all...
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Use Win 7 disk management to set up new HD with boot record
The HD I have has been low level formated.
After that I went into Win 7 Disk management to install the Simple Volume in the usual way.
I failed to get the boot record installed and do not know if this has to do with Active Partition.
The disk is ready for any wipes needed.. How can I start over on this and why is the boot loader
(no giving an error) tricky to get installed?
Again. I...
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Options for recovery/reinstall of pre-installed 7 won't boot?
Hi, I appreciate the forums very much. I've been doing lots of research trying to fix my Win7 Home Premium x64 on a Toshiba Satellite C660, which suddenly failed to restart. I thought, before I give up and install Linux on it, people here might have some ideas. The laptop was given to me by my son-in-law, who didn't keep any media, and I failed to make a recovery disc or any full backups of the...
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Dead PC - move HD to new MBoard and upgrade to windows 10?
Hi all,
Big problem and hope someone can tell me if my solution may work.
My PC is dead - spilt a big glass of water on it. I did everything to get it back, but its dead. I checked on a replacement motherboard but it is so old that I can't find any except one guy who wants almost $400 for it. So I need new hardware and thought I would take advantage of the new Ryzen stuff coming it (the...
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Setup was unable to create a new system partition....
okay, so... where to start...
I built a new rig 4 days ago. started installing windows 7 and had nothing but issues. I wanted to install the os on my SSD, but it wouldn't show up in the windows install. I found out that I had to prep the drive and install drivers before I could use it. so I installed the os on one of my HDDs which wasn't easy either. for some reason I had to convert the disk...
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Cannot Delete Original User Account in Refurbished Win 7 Laptop
I recently purchased an HP 8460p Win 7 Pro 64 bit refurbished laptop that came with Windows already installed and configured to run under User name, hp.
I would like to change the User name to CAG. Therefore, I went to User Accounts then to the Control Panel, clicked on Manage Another Account and created User Account, CAG. Next, I shut down the computer, restarted and signed in under CAG, and...
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Wiped my partitions now I can't use my acer code
i was installing linux and ended up wiping all of the partitions, including windows. I figured I could just reinstall windows using the code on the sticker on the side of the machine but when I tried windows message said something to the effect of this was an acer oem version and I had to use the acer recovery partition.
I havent been able to find anything about how I can recover the recovery...
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