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recovery error

I have 2 laptop with the same specifications. Toshiba Satellite Pro and Windows 7 Home Premium Genuine. One for me and one for my sister. I have two questions: I'm going to ask the first question and...

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C partition splitted from user account

Hi All, Just wanted to have some opinions as far as the benefits of having the c partition (system partition) spitted from user account (Documents, Movies etc...) I have been reading posts but cant...

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Passwords requirements and Home Premium

Does 7 Home Premium allow you to set criteria for user passwords? I try to do a search for the Local Security Policy and find nothing. Is this because HP does not support AD DS? I was trying to prompt...

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how do i Repair or Reinstall operating system

Acer Aspire 17.3 laptop. had black screen with a few words eg. no system. used F10 and now have Windows Boot Manager black page with Windows failed to start and 1,2,3 insert disk and restart. choose...

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Solved Error(s) when installing Windows 7 professional 64-bit.

Well guys, just today, i tried reinstalling windows 7 professional 64-bit. Well, this isn't the first time i install win 7 pro 64 bit. I installed a few times. PROBLEM 1: In the past, when i tried...

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Fresh Install (due to new MOBO) Error 0x80070570

Hey Sevenforums, About a year ago I decided to build my first computer. I did so and there was much rejoicing. That is until it started BSODing everywhere when I played video games or watched Netflix....

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WDS Image not working on Dell Inspiron 14z

I am trying to create a W7 pro image to deploy but I am having difficulty when I deploy the image because of the built in SSD hybrid drive that comes with the laptop. When i deploy it will just loop...

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Solved Windows refuse to boot from CD - can't reinstall Windows

Hello, So I've been sitting up all morning now (06:00 AM) going nuts about this Windows installation and decided to ask for help. I just got my new hard drive up and running and moved all my...

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Windows 7 Pro 64bit reinstallation problem: New system partition

Hello everyone! I AM AWARE THAT A SIMILAR THREAD EXISTS ALREADY. HOWEVER MY CURRENT SITUATION IS RATHER UNIQUE AND UNLIKE ANY OTHER PROBLEM I HAVE FOUND ON ANY FORUM. Recently I have been having some...

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bootrec acts on usb drive rather than hdd

I am trying to recover to delivery state after having installed Ubuntu. Lenovo recovery partition was still intact, so I managed to restore the drives Windows7_OS and SYSTEM_DRV. But first of all, the...

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Windows 7 ultimate 32 bit, RAM patch.

Hello, so i installed the 32 bit windows ultimate by accident which limits me to the 4 GB ram, bearing in mind i have 8 GB. As i already had my preferences and programs installed, i did not have the...

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Installation problems : Windows 7 64-bit on Dell Optiplex 760

I bought recently a re-furbished Dell Optiplex 760. I installed an SSD for the boot drive and tried to install Windows 7 Pro 64-bit (the OEM CD). The install ran smoothly up to a certain point and then...

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HD crashed...how do I get running again?

This was a slow motion crash. In Nov 2011 my HP Pavilion, 64-bit, Win 7 Home Premium, desktop (pretty powerful machine back in 2007) started warning me the HD was going south. I immediately made an...

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reinstall of windows 7 HP 64-bit error see OP since its long

im not sure if this is exactly where i should be putting this but here is my problem: i was using this program to try and fix a problem that i was having with backing up my HDD (which i thankfully...

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BOOTMGR is missing?? new hard drive installation

Hey if anyone can help me out with this it would be hugely appreciated. Basically i put a new hard drive into my laptop and tried to install windows 7. It keeps saying bootmgr is missing, press ctrl +...

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Solved Clean install windows 7 without recovery disks?

Hello there! My HDD on my HP dm4 laptop recently started giving me problems. Initially I got a "Hard Drive not found error" or an "Please install an operating system" error. I thought this might be a...

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Installing Windows 7 onto SSD in a custom build PC

I’ve recently purchased a custom built PC from a company and I’ve included in it an SSD for the operating system and programs, and a 1TB HDD for storage both are brand new with no data installed. Once...

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Deleted System Partition and cannot create another one.

Hi guys, i'm having the following annoying problem. I wanted to format my notebook because it was kinda buggy and stuff, well, as my dvd from windows 7 ultimate x64 is broken, i tried to install using...

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Dropbox keeps Resetting

On this computer, I installed Dropbox last week, when we installed Windows 7. Ever since then, when the computer boots into Windows, the setup for Dropbox appears. It only does that on this computer....

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OS will not boot since motherboard replaced

Motherboard died in a custom arcade machine, Replaced motherboard but of course it will not boot. Anyway i can get the serial key for windows "out" of the hard drive? This is a custom machine with no...

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