Windows Install, Hard Crashed
Apr 4, 2009
Never in my llife have I seen a problem with INstaller, but it's happening. In fact, this OS keeps coming up with new bummers, that I haven't had befor. It hard crashed after a few weeks of operation, and a mini hard stroke this week, forget the old blu screen of death, this one has it's one, just discised a little. I've heard one can convert back to XP, but having skipped that one, I don't know how it is. Please put on thinking caps for me as I'm stumped and every thing puiter related is getting more difficult as time goes on.
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Mar 26, 2008
I have 2 pc's with xp, each with ide drives, One crashed, so I removed the hard drive to run as a slave on my other pc to see if I could retrieve the data. When I did this, the ribbon pulled loose just enough to shut down my drive (yes on the good one). I now have to reboot with original boot disk, which I no longer have. So I go and buy Vista Home Premium, then first am able remove the data (via knoppix) from the old crashed drive (first one). So I put this drive into the 2nd pc as master, and attempt to install Vista.
I get past the "loading software" and then the "windows" progess bar screens, and the screen goes to a black screed with nothing but a mouse arrow on it.
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Mar 31, 2009
My computer crashed and I currently have my hard drive set up externally to copy the information off of it onto another computer. I was using Windows Mail that came with Vista on my old computer when it crashed. I've been able to salvage my data, but would like to find my messages stored in my Inbox in Windows Mail. I cannot open the program (Windows Mail) currently, but will be able to open it when my new computer arrives. For now, I'm copying needed files off my hard drive and storing them temporarily on my children's computer. I do not know what folders from Windows Mail, or Windows perhaps, that I need to save in order to hopefully open my saved inbox messages.
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May 15, 2010
My Toshiba Labtop has crashed.I think a shared file was deleted. Labtop was operating under Windows Vista Home Premium 64 bit.It happened right after uninstalling Java; because the dang updates kept popping up and it was getting annoying. Now whenever i start it, it comes to a black screen and a minute later a cursor pops up. Safe mode does not work.I have tried the recovery disk, but to no avail.I know im doing right because i purchased some Boots Disks off ebay and they come right up (PC wizard; Pc doctor).So i bought Windows Vista Ultimate and tried to install and i cant get to install thru boot.I ither need to know how to install windows thru boot, but id much rather just fix current windows.
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Apr 14, 2009
My hard drive crashed, so i bought a new one but when i try to run the recovery dvd disc, as soon as i click start it says Error 100a if problem persists contact hp. i called them and they're telling me i now need to get a new recovery disc, but i dont think they know what they're talking about and im sure they will just tell me i need to buy something else when that doesnt work
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Jan 9, 2010
I've been using an external USB hard drive to back up my HP laptop system - backing up EVERYTHING incrementally on the drive (including the OS). If I ever had a serious problem, I could rebuild my system without having to reinstall all my software. Recently, my backup hard drive crashed - DEAD!! Before I buy another external hard drive, I would like to get some opinions on other backup strategies. I used to clone my "C" drive (about once a week) in addition to the external hard drive.
But I no longer have an extra 2 1/2" drive large enough to back up to. The cost of additional drives for backup is not an issue. I would just like to get other opinions so I can choose one that works for me. Suggestions for drive models and types are also welcome as well as software. Currently, I use software from Aquarius I.S. Consultancy for sequential backup and I cloned my "C" drive with Acronis True Image.
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Nov 14, 2007
I've been buying Dell computers for probably 10 or 12 years now and have mostly been satisfied with the results. Much more so than my first Microsoft-based machine, which was a Gateway. On it, the hard drive crashed within the first 30 days. But to give credit where credit is due, they had a replacement on my doorstep within 48 hours. Since I've been such a good customer, Dell often sends me sales brochures and on every single page is always the same phrase "Dell recommends Windows Vista Home Premium".
Based on what I've read in this forum, I have to chuckle every time I read that. I must admit that I'm one of those tech groupies who always has to have the latest and greatest. My son's friends used to call me "Mr. First On The Block". That's the main reason I bought a new desktop with the Vista OS, even though I already had two perfectly good XP machines that weren't that old and with which I was perfectly satisfied. (Well, the old desktop was slowing down quite a bit, since it only had 512 megs of RAM and a 60-gig HD). I'm just glad I'm a casual computer user and don't have to depend on 'em to support myself because I'd probably be cussin' Microsoft and Vista too.
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Jun 2, 2008
My Vista Operating System Hard Disk Just crashed. It was running Vista Home Premium. My Computer is an HP 8170in media centre PC.
I have managed to salvage most data off it from the other partitions as well as the C: except the my documents which has all my user files on them. I have already tried using an XP computer to get into the hard disk but it doesnt allow me to change the securities from there. Have tried changing security ownership by using articles from the forum by
goin on the security tab in XP but its not allowing me to change this for the documents and settings. Is it located elsewhere by any chance?
Am i changing the wrong folder? At the minute it just shows the folder grayed out with no access to it... you do not have permission message and its disk size shown is 0mb. Assuming this is becuase of a security issue.
I also bought a new hard disk and used the hp restore disks to re add windows vista on that hard disk. Now on that system i cannot access my old hard disk and i get a blue screen. If i attempt to only boot from my old hard disk i get a 0x0000007b (0x78d2524 oxc0000034 ox00000000 0x00000000) error
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Jun 2, 2008
I have managed to salvage most data off it from the other partitions as well as the C: except the my documents which has all my user files on them. I have already tried using an XP computer to get into the hard disk but it doesnt allow me to change the securities from there. Have tried changing security ownership by using articles from the forum by goin on the security tab in XP but its not allowing me to change this for the documents and settings. Is it located elsewhere by any chance? Am i changing the wrong folder? At the minute it just shows the folder grayed out with no access to it... you do not have permission message and its disk size shown is 0mb. Assuming this is becuase of a security issue.
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Aug 2, 2009
Was installing service pack 2 and system crashed now can not even get back to my old vista. Seems to be loading and then I get: !!oxc 0190005!! 9293/45274 (registrymachineschemawcm.//microsoft-...) Then it freezes. I let it stay here for 18 hours and nothing. Tried to boot with my old vista windows disk and can not get a fix or get back to loading anything. Latest error said windows can not fix problem. Frequant black screen of death after bios or it goes to above point and stops.
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Nov 11, 2008
Tried installing Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2009 (KAV) on a friends Vista machine and it crashed during the install. I was required to use the last restore point to get the machine up and running. Has anyone had similar issues w/KAV & Vista 64-bit? When I tried to install KAV initially it found Norton and would not install. I removed Norton but did not reboot before installing KAV. Does anyone think this might be the cause? I am reluctant to try again as the computer is for my friends business and he lost a few files when I went to the restore point.
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Aug 1, 2009
I installed vista sp2 yesterday and now my laptop won't start. it offers two options, start in repair mode or start normally. I have an 18 month old Toshiba Equiium running vista home P 32 bit. If I start normally, the microsoft logo comes up and then the screen blips blue momentarily then it goes off. If I run the repair, it scans for faults, then prompts to run a system restore. I take this option and then it takes many minutes to attempt repairs - ultimately ending with 'windows cannot repair..."
there is a log with lots of 0x0 type errors notices (which are meaningles to me) I can't even get to the point where I could elect to restore to last best save or whatever. I have all my docs backed up on a portable HD but I cannot get past this failed repair message.
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Oct 7, 2008
Just to get better explaination about this.Whenever i set the Power Options->Turn Off The Display->Any Value->then when monitor went to off(standby) = Windows Crashed/Blue Screen. But, when i set to never, no problem. Already tried all the values, result = same.
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Apr 6, 2009
my stepdaughter's laptop's hd crashed (unusable), she of course lost the system disc. I have my laptop and system disc, both laptops are gateway but different models 6752 and 6836. I have a new hd on order, and I will install vista with my disc and her windows product key (her laptop) I shouldn't have any problem with that right?
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Jul 29, 2009
I turned DEP off by reading the vistax64 forum. when i rebooted, a big problem raised. windows vista ( home premium ) crashed to continue. i selected safe mode and other F8 choices...but still problem is there. then I used Vista DVD to repair startup...problem not solved. I used system restore...but not worked.
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Mar 3, 2009
I recently had a laptop not recognize its own operating system. I figured if I were able to load Windows Vista on to an external hard drive and boot the computer from that external hard drive I should be able to recover some files and major downloads before I reformat the computer. However, Vista instillation will not install through USB2.0. Is there any way to install Vista onto an external hard drive? How and what do I do to get it done?
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May 19, 2009
I have a Sony Vaio Laptop, and want to "downgrade" to XP! I have completely formatted my hard drive, and set my laptop to boot from CD. It starts loading drivers etc but after about 3/4 mins it says that it cant find a hard disc to install to?
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Mar 23, 2008
I did a hard install of SP1 over two hours ago on my desktop. The system installed and configured updates-went up to 100%..however...it is still hanging-what I mean by that is I am still on the blue installation screen and it says "Configuring Updates-do not turn off computer" I am not sure what to do...should I just shut it off and restart?
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Jan 5, 2010
Am reinstalling Windows Vista after a virus infected my PC. I am reinstalling vista but after booting from DVD Vista does not recognise my SATA hard disk on the "Where do you want to install Windows?" screen. There are no issues with the hard disk and this happened once before but I can't remember how I solved this. My problem is the Vista installer not recognising my hard disk so I can install Vista. I have an Alienware pc with hitachi deskstar hard disk and asus a8n-sli deluxe motherboard. I have to reinstall as a virus has caused my windows explorer to malfunction and it also installed a trojan which stole my key. I have tried a couple of ASUS raid drivers via a usb hard disk with no luck. We can't find any appropriate hitachi drivers. I think this is related to the hard disk controller?
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Jan 21, 2009
I Install my 2nd hard drive as a storage drive. Then I booted up and got an error loading OS. I rebooted and hit F10 to set up and found that the storage drive is no# 1 and my main drive is no#3. How do I get the storage drive to be after my main drive. So it will boot up from it. My main drive is a SATA. I have a Parserio Compaq SR5601p with Vista. The new drive I am trying to Install as storage is a Western Digital EIDE160GB WDCaviar@SE-7200RPM
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Oct 4, 2008
Im Thinkin of gettin A External Hard Drive for my laptop seeing as bad as* Vista takes Up 20GB and all my programs and music pictures take up the rest of the space im now down to only 20GB on my 60GB hard drive i need an external Hard Drive and i was looking around a 500GB to 750GB external drive. And The Majorty of my space is being taken up by all my programs. i mean i would uninstall them its just that i need them for my college cousre so i cant really!
So i wanted to know if you can install programs for example like Photoshop CS3, Adobe Fireworks CS3, Corel Draw 14 and so can be installed on a external hard drive i've got the space and i know all bout the shourtcuts and when i want to use that program i'll have to plug in the hard drive but i'll keep on top of it i always do
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Feb 8, 2009
I want to install backup and hard disc recovery software on my laptop and two PCs.I am impressed with Acronis True Image Home 2009 but this requires a seperate license for each machine.However, Active@Disk Image allows installation on 3 machines and is cheaper.The OP on the laptop is Vista Home Premium, and on the PCs XP Home SP3.What do people think of either choice?
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Apr 20, 2008
I'm trying to install an additional (SATA) hard drive - it appears I need a cable that can connect to the 8 pin power connection on the hard drive and then to the EIDE 15 pin connector on the cable coming from the hard drive in the computer. I can't find a cable that can do this. Do I need to combine two cables (15 to 4 pin, then 4 to 8?)
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Mar 23, 2008
i have problem when i try to install windows xp. i have laptop hp parvilion dx6650us entertainment notbook pc, vista install on it but i want to install windows xp. when windows xp boot i got this message. Setup did not find any hard disk drives installed in your computer. Make sure any hard disk drives are powered on and properly connected to your computer, and that any disk-related hardware configuration is correct. This may involve running a manufacturer-supplied diagnostic or setup program. Setup cannot continue. To quit Setup, press F3. is there any solution so that i can install windows xp.
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May 25, 2008
I would like to check the memory for errors BEFORE I load/install Windows Vista Home Premium x64 to avoid install hang-ups. Can you make an ISO CD of this program, load it in your CD/DVD drive and check your memory for errors? I recently updated the BIOS on the board (DP35DP) and it does show all of the 4GB of Kingston ValueRam PC800 1.8v (2x2gb) installed. I have good reason to believe that it's from a respectable manufacturer. Just want to make sure the memory is good before I load up the OS.
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Dec 6, 2009
I am helping a friend install windows updates on her Sony VAIO laptop with Vista Home Premium SP1 installed. Laptop had not been updated since January 2009. All updates completed fine with the exception of KB973565. When installed via automatic windows updates I get the following error...........
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May 21, 2008
I just bought and installed a external hard drive. I am fairly knowlegable about computers but this is my first Ex. Hard drive and know very little about there use. So what I want to know is how to save my Family Tree Makers files to it. And once I do that how do I know for sure it is opening from my new drive and not my computer C: drive? I saved it to a DVD one time but when the time came when I needed it all that was there was a short cut but no files.
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Mar 26, 2008
I have the Windows Vista upgrade disc and I just bought a new hard drive. Do I need to reinstall Windows Xp and Windows Vista again or is there an eaiser way to do it?
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Mar 23, 2008
I have the Windows Vista upgrade disc and I just bought a new hard drive. Do I need to reinstall Windows Xp and Windows Vista again or is there an eaiser way to do it?
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Apr 24, 2008
Hello, my son's pc crashed and will only boot to the black screen with green loading bar, then quits. Monitor keeps going to sleep.
I tried everything: system repair (which says it can't do - corrupt registry). Restore (can't - no restore point was set.) Go back to last known good config - won't work it crashes.
I ran a memory test and all was good.
So, I saw on this site where it was advised to do an upgrade/repair, but I can't because the option is grayed out and disabled. I tried starting with the disc in, and also by starting and then putting the disk in. If I wait until the machine starts and put the disk in, it will not work. It crashes. If I put the disk in and then start the machine is when I get to the install screen and eventually the 'update is disabled' screen.
I'm really trying to avoid a new install. I wonder if there is a way to get around the disabled thing in my case?
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Jan 19, 2009
I have a dell Inspiron 1525 with vista home premium and I resently downloaded Last chaos and I tried to play it, and It was fine logging in fine for a couple of seconds and then it crashed. anyone know how to make it work? when it crashes my computer is fine, the screen is fine everything is it simply says, program not responding so i exit out ive uninstalled it and re installed it and run it as an adminstrator nothings working
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