New install for new UEFI capable board
I expect to receive my new Asus Hero board and i5 4670k at the beginning of this coming week. I've built several systems, but not since '08 and am a bit confused re: UEFI. I plan to use my existing...
View ArticleWindows Starter Product Key Won't Work With Clean Home Premium Install
So I have an old Sony laptop, and it came with Win 7 Starter. It got slow and bogged, so I installed Win 7 from scratch from instructions here, and when I went to enter the product key from the bottom...
View ArticleDual boot Windows 7 on Windows 8
I'm trying to dual boot windows 7 on my windows 8 laptop, and I am able to install windows 7 using a UEFI usb I created, but before I install it on the allocated space partition I created, it gives me...
View ArticleWindows failed to start. (Error 0xc000000f)
Hi there, I'm posting this thread after getting tired reading all the post everywhere with no specific solution for the problem I've been already facing since last night with all the hopes to get it...
View ArticleBasic secuirity question
Hi all, My Win7 desktop has admin plus user accounts for myself (Keith) and wife (Jean). The HDD is partitioned with all progs on C: and data on D: I recently lost a file and dont remember deleting it,...
View ArticleSolved Repair Install Gone Bad...
I just tried the repair install tutorial here *http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/3413-repair-install.html *using *Step 4* (burning the downloaded ISO on a DVD) and everything was chugging along...
View ArticleI need help Reformatting my Win 7 starter
I don't know much about computers but I figured I would give a shot at reformatting my EeePc before junking it. My problem is that the computer does not have a disc drive and came per-installed with...
View ArticleInstalling Genuine win 7 over non genuine version
I have a laptop purchased several years ago off e-bay with Win 7 installed and it worked fine for well over a year but then I got the " This in not a genuine win 7 blah blah and black screen. It was a...
View ArticleLaptop doesn't see files written to drive when connected to desktop
Hi folks, I just installed Win7 on my laptop. Fresh install on a drive, everything appeared to go fine, and I installed a bunch of applications as well and copied some data via the network. Then I...
View ArticleProblem reinstalling Windows 7 (ended up with two of them, both bad!)
Hi guys. The motherboard had to be replaced only a few months after my purchase of this DELL system, and the computer was still running slowly and giving me weird problems and general slowness, so a...
View ArticleSolved Reinstalling Windows 7 without an OEM manufacter disk
I have a HP desktop and have imaged Windows from a SATA 1TB drive over to a 64GB SSD. I have only applications and the OS installed on it. My Documents, files, email PST Files (IMAP) and other data,...
View ArticleWin7: Missing drivers during clean setup (Asus X53S) tried everything!
Hi! I think I'm going out of my mind here, the HDD on my brothers laptop gave up yesterday, today we bought a new HDD and installed it. DVD didn't work, created a USB install stick with Windows 7 Home...
View ArticleBoot Manager Error 0xc000000f
Hello, I am using HP laptop. I was using windows 7 operating system. But for some kind of problems i thought to run a set up in my laptop. As i heard from some people that Windows 8 is better than...
View ArticleWindows splash screen issue
Hi, On this new pc i have built, the Windows splash screen comes up with just 'starting windows' and then instead of the flag animation it hangs there for at least 20-30 seconds until it starts loading...
View ArticleInstall Media - Windows Home Premium 64Bit
My laptop didn't come with the recovery disc. I have a blank HD with no recovery partition. Are there any options to freely obtain the install media? I have the license sticker on my laptop. Thank You!
View Articledual boot - remove xp partition. help please
Hi all, I have a dual installation windows 7 - xp in a single hard drive, 2 partitions. (there was xp installed first, then i created the dual boot to add w7) Now I dont use xp anymore and I want to...
View ArticleSeeking advice on Windows 7 setup
Greetings, I am currently running Windows 7 64 bit on a 4 year old Dell desktop. Originally this machine had Windows Vista. The Windows 7 upgrade disk/license I bought required me to install Windows 7...
View ArticleUpgrading from Win7 Home Pemium to Pro
I recently had a custom gaming rig built with Win7 Home Premium installed not knowing I needed Win7 Pro or better to run more than 16gig of ram (32gig installed). I have a Win7 Pro key and was wondring...
View ArticleSolved Win + Double Linux config: Separate GRUB or boot partition/treatment?
First time attempt at Windows-Linux configuration after clean install of Windows 7 (System Reserved was avoided). At first I was planning to add Linux Mint only. It was clear from reading that no...
View ArticleSolved Data partition: How to use
I have upgraded to Windows 7 and created a separate data partition. But this is new for me. Q: Is use of a data partition simply a matter of moving your user Libraries to the D:/ (data) drive and...
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