Need To Create System Startup Disk To Upgrade Bios Software
Apr 28, 2008I need to create a system startup disk to upgrade my system bios. How do I do this?
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Bios Upgrade, Missing Operating System
Sep 29, 2009I upgraded my Vista Ultimate x64 pc bios using Gigabyte's @ Bios, but apparently I forgot to uncheck the box that removes my raid profiles. I have a mirrored pair of raptors (Raid1) and a striped set of 3 HDs (Raid0) for storage. Also I have 1 veloci-rapter OS drive (no Raid) that is not showing up at all? [a dual boot with 2 Vista volumes]. Below is the configuration utility:
What I've tried:...............
Bypass Flashing Bios On Startup
Oct 17, 2009I would like to know if it is possible to bypass the BIOS flashing on initial start up?
I know that it will not speedup loading into the desktop but I would personally prefer to not see the BIOS.
If it is possible could you post the procedures for disabling the start up BIOS flash.
Bios Cannot Detect The Hard Disk
May 25, 2008My system was working fine the other day, but while copying a file by nero?.the system hanged and I had to restart it. But I got a disk boot failure error. Then , I tried to run a windows xp installation CD, but that is also showing some error message during installation and the installation fails. I did check the bios settings and the disk fails to show?and had it checked on another system also? but bios cannot detect the hard disk.
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Apr 1, 2008I am not having fun installing Vista on my new computer. At first, I did not touch any of the BIOS settings. The Install program recognized my hardware but said it was 698.6 GB which is a bit too small. There was a warning that said, "This computer's hardware may not support booting to this hard disk. Ensure that the disk's controller is enabled in the computer's BIOS menu".
I ignored this message and I clicked on this item in the list that showed my hard drive. There are little icon buttons at the bottom of the window. Few are enabled. One that is enabled is one that showed the "new" option. I clicked on that and an error appeared: "Failed to create a new partition on the selected used space. [Error: 0x80042453]". So I guess "new" is not the option to click on. I went into the BIOS settings.
How To Create A Recovery Disk
Mar 26, 2008I am trying to create a Recovery Disk in my Acer laptop, I went through their User Manual and there was not enough information to the procedure. Could some one point me in the right direction so that I can do this. My hard disk has a hidden partition of 7.8GB with EISA Configuration but in the Disk Management it says it is 100% Free. The other partition is C: which is my system partition. I hope I have given enough information if not please let me know. I have also requested the Acer but I believe they will only direct me to their eRecovery Management Tool.
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Mar 26, 2008I bought a downloaded version of Vista from Microsoft. I did not get a CD or DVD. I installed it with a dual boot putting Vista on a little partition so I could see how I liked it. No I am ready to wipe out my XP and Previous Vista and start over. However all I have is this big zip file and unpacked there is no documentation or anything for that matter on how to make a disk, or make a disk from an ISO file.
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Apr 28, 2008I have my old XP load on my C drive and Vista on the D drive. I'm ready to wipe out XP (I know lots of folks would go the other way) so I can create a mirror copy of Vista for fault tolerance. Before I enable RAID in the firmware, I'm thinking I need to format the C drive. However the Disk Management utility has the format command grayed out for the C drive. It shows up as:
Disk 0: C: NTFS, Healthy (System, Active, Primary Partition)
My D drive is: Disk 2: D: NTFS, Healthy (Boot, Page File, Crash Dump, Primary
Partition)
What is the proper way to wipe out C so I can create my RAID mirror?
Can I Create Some Sort Of Raid Disk With Two Usb Drives In /7
Nov 18, 2009I want to have two flash drives working in like a raid mirror.I can plug in one of the usb flash drives and get say a new E:, but of course if I plug in the second one I get a f:
Is there a way to have windows vista (or 7 I guess) configured so that the two flash drives are just the E: and they are working in a raid mirror config via software ?
Shrink Volume & Create New Partition Using Disk Management Console
Jun 2, 2009I downloaded Windows 7 RC1 with the intent of adding a partition to my HDD and dual booting. My understanding is that I would need a 16GB partition. My Disk Management Console tells me I have two existing primary partitions (expected). D (the recovery partition) is 6.62GB. The other (C) makes up the difference (~142GB) and has 47.1GB free space. When I begin the "shrink volume" process, it says that only 3MB is available to shrink C. I checked the page file and it has less than 3GB allocated to it. So, I have two questions. First, why isn't more shrinkage ;>) space available? Two, assuming that with your help I can find more space, if I try to create a 16GB partition from C will I significantly affect computer performance?
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Apr 21, 2009I increased the RAM on my Compaq Presario SR2002X from 512M to 2G (both old and new are the same speed, PC2-4200). Both the BIOS Setup and the System dialog in the Control Panel show that they are using the new memory. As expected, a variety of things run faster now. In particular, all those security dialogs that come up and dim the desktop whenever you start some system maintenance process. They used to be slow to appear, but now they pop up almost immediately. Some programs start faster now -- the MSDN library displays almost immediately now, and it used to take about 30 seconds to initialize.
The surprise is that some things run slower. One thing that is particularly noticeable often occurs when entering text into a web page input area. With each keystroke, I can see the caret moving across the white background, but no characters appear. Sometimes I'll type in five or six keystrokes before it gets around to painting the characters behind the cursor. Another occurs with crossword puzzles displayed in Flash objects, such as the one in the daily L.A. Times. For these crossword puzzles, first you have to poke a puzzle-selection button; then it pops up a dialog with a choice of "regular" or "master" skill level. The pop-up used to display instantly; now there's a delay of about three seconds. Why would some things run slower after an increase in RAM??
System Disk Automatically Bumped Disk O Position
Sep 21, 2009I have an HP DV7 notebook that I recently added a second SATA 500 GB hard drive in the expansion bay. The purpose of the drive is to serve as a data drive. I also intend to store an image of my system disk on this internal expansion drive so that I can restore my system and apps when I am in the field. For most purposes the drive seems to be functioning normally. However, I recently noticed that, without my instructions, HP Updates were installing suipport files on my expansion disk rather than on my system disk and I have become concerned that Windows Updates may also end up on the expansion drive (so far they appear not to have done this). On further inspection in Computer Management - Disk Managment I discovered that when I put the expansion drive into the 2nd bay, my original system disk was automatically bumped from the Disk 0 position to the Disk 1 position and my expansion disk became the new Disk 0.
In Computer Managment - Disk Management the system currently looks like
Disk 0 - F: Expansion Drive - Healthy, Primary Partition
Disk 1 - C: - Healthy, System, Boot, Page File, Active, Crash Dump,Primary Partition.
If I physically pull out the F: drive from the machine the C: drive returns to the Disk 0 position. I am concerned that my system and application updates are going to get splattered across two drives when I want them to remain on the original C: drive. I can find no way in BIOS or Computer Management - Disk Management to assign the Disk and physically swapping the drives makes the system disk unbootable. Am I at risk of splattering my Window updates across two drives? Should I instruct Vista to regard my system disk C: as Disk 0 and how to I do this?
Startup Hard Disk Not Exist
Jan 12, 2010Recently often the following messages appear when start up is attempted:
- No boothable device
- Hard disk not exist
- Insert boot disk & press any key
I can only start up the computer after pressing ctrl, alt, delete sometimes this needs to be done twice and then the computer starts normally
How To Create System Builder Image?
Dec 16, 2008I am interested in creating a system which works like everyday DELL's/HP's/SONY's etc where the HDD has a partition with an activate image of the OS. The boot menu lets you boot from the HDD by default but if the system needs to be cleaned (restored to factory defaults) it is as simple as choosing a option in the boot menu which simply installs the OS (activated i.e. no frequent activations) which still keeping almost every file I created personally.
FYI, I am trying to build my own system using Vista Ultimate SP1 64-bit and would like to keep an activated image of my system that can restored anytime I need to start all over again. EDIT: I am only interested in going back to when the image was created. Ocassionally I would like to update the image when major service packs are released and tested
How To Create New Operating System 3 Easy Steps
Jun 3, 20091 Remove some features from an existing OS
2 Add some new features
3 Get some customers
we'll start with Vista as our base (although similar principles could in theory be applied to any OS).
STEP 1. Remove some features. Right, so Vista was fat and overweight and nasty people laughed at her waddling obesely along the street. So could you perhaps slim her down, speed her up and make people generally like her? Yes, it's possible. Take out Movie Maker, Windows Calendar, Windows Photo Gallery,.. and make them separate downloads. You then have an instant performance gain (until of course they are re-added, but no need to mention that). This has another advantage of making it appear that you've spent a few years fine-tuning performance features, when really it's easily done in about half an hour.....................
Unable To Create System Restore Point
May 30, 2009when i tried to create a restore point an error message is being displayed. it says " could not create the scheduled task for the following reason task image is corrupt or has been tampered with (0x80041321)" what does it mean. i am running on vista ultimate x64
pc config
dual core 2.8(intel)
intel 965board
80gb hdd
what i did was under system properties page, i clicked system protection tab on the left side checked the boxes( all system drives ie hard disk drives) and clicked apply then the message i described was popping out and when clicked create also the same message is being displayed.
Won't Startup System
Apr 12, 2010Here's the error I'm getting when trying to do a system repair on my acer 6930:
Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: StartupRepairV2
Problem Signature 01: AutoFailOver
Problem Signature 02: 6.0.6000.16386.6.0.6001.18000
Problem Signature 03: 0
Problem Signature 04: 65537
Problem Signature 05: unknown....
I saw that message about the missing os loader so I grabbed my father in laws XP PRO cd (which i just realized won't freaking work) and tried to install that.... Got the blue screen of death. I tried changing my hd setting in the bios from AHCI to IDE still no success. The BSOD error message was this: STOP: 0x0000007B (0XF78D22524, 0XC0000034, 0X00000000, 0X00000000)
Can 'cache' The System Disk In A RAM Disk?
Feb 17, 2008I've persuaded my boss that I need 16 gig of RAM. The purpose being, of course, to make Vista fly. Is a RAM disk the best way to do this? Can I 'cache' the system disk in a RAM disk? Or is there a better way to make use of my new endownment.
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So I restarted the computer again, this time with my Vista CD in the drive, and again, the computer wouldn't boot and told me to enter a boot disk. Not knowing what to do, I went back into BIOS and changed the boot sequence back to CD first, then HD. After doing this, and restarting with the Vista CD in the drive, my computer booted up with no problems whatsoever. I tried reinstalling Vista (twice), reformatting the target hard drive, changing the boot sequence around, pretty much everything I could think of......
System Trying To Repair The Startup
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Now everytime i restart it it gives me options for safe mode etc I have picked them all and it loads fr a bit then the screen goes to a page with text saying reinstall windows and the registry is corrupt. Info: Windows failed to load because the system registry file is missing, or corrupt. Now I cant get into any of the safe modes at all and I dont have a vista CD as it was preinstalled.
System Power Off By Itself At Startup
Jun 4, 2009My laptop always automatically power off by itself. Means that it won't have the shutdown interface but automatically power off. Like we close our power on a CPU. When i power on, it will power off by itself at startup, window progress bar and the window interface. Sometime it went well until i shutdown. There are no blue screen. I have done scandisk but seem like no bad sector.
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