How To Format Vista To Windows 7 In Compaq Hp

Compaq Presario Camera Drivers For Windows Vista

Apr 13, 2012

my web cam is no longer working after formatting my machine.

Want To Format But Windows 7 Is Upgrade From Vista?

Jan 12, 2013

I have a Win 7 OS on my laptop but I had Vista before and got the Win 7 through an "upgrade" disc and key that came with it.I want to format the HDD and reinstall my OS but I don't have any OS discs other than the upgrade disc for win 7 (i.e. i dont have the vista OS disc seeing as it was pre-installed on the laptop and is on OEM version; no recovery discs were provided).How do I go about it? Would my upgrade disc and key work if I were to use them right after formatting?

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Compaq Missing Operating System Vista?

Jan 6, 2012

my laptop didnt work, when i open it it say missing operating system. what can i do?

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Can Format And Load Windows 7 Without Installing Vista First

Jul 17, 2012

Nothing working right. No icons on desktop. Ads running in background. have to go into computer to get browser etc. Purchased computer with Vista on it.Up graded to 7 with MS window upgrade. Can I format and load win 7 without installing Vista first? I run virus and malware software and they found nothing.

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Can I Format My Drive Containing Vista ?

Jul 24, 2009

i have 3 partition in my pc...

C drive contains vista home basic...D drive contains some data and E drive contains new Windows 7 7260

now...i am not using vista anymore..so can i format my c drive directly...

and one more thing..i have lenovo y510 laptop...and it has a one key recovery option...so if i format my c drive....will i be able to use that one key recovery feature in future ???

and apart from 3 partition...i have one more partition which is hidden...in computer management tool...it shows "OEM".

so what do you say ??? is it safe to format my C drive now to get more hdd space ??? but please...i should be able to use "one key recovery".

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Jan 18, 2010

The only Problem I am having now is being able to format the partition with Vista still on it. For some reason I just can't get rid of it.

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[IMAGES] Re-install Vista Using Recovery Disc After A Complete Format?

Mar 4, 2010

i am planning to install windows 7 very soon but am worried that while installing windows 7,vista will be completely formatted if doing a fresh installation in-case if i don't like it, can i re-install vista using the recovery disc?my pc came with vista installed on it so i dont have a guniene DVD for vista.

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Jun 25, 2012

Windows 7 cannot format memory card message appear window was unable to format

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Aug 29, 2012

Can I format a Hard Drive with Windows 7 using a 2000 format disk. If so, what are the prompts i see and action on boot-up before I use the format C. Done it before but just forgot

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Feb 8, 2013

how i can format my pen drive if window 7 and XP is unable to format it. they are saying files are in use. i have kept window xp, photoshop and some other software in it. Now please tell me how can i delete these items or format it.

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System Should Dual Boot To Windows 7 Or Vista Ultimate, But Does Not Recognize Vista

Aug 15, 2012

My system dual boots to either Windows 7 or Vista Ultimate, or, at least it is supposed to. Something happened and now the system just boots to Winodows 7 without giving me the choice to boot to either. When I use F6 I find that only Windows 7 is listed in the Operating Systems box.

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Sep 13, 2010

New laptop has Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit. I have two business programs that won't run on a 64bit system. Partitioned the hard drive to install Vista Home Premium 32bit to create a dual boot system solely to run these two programs.Can't get Vista to load. Followed tutorial meticulously. All goes fine until the "Vista will boot for the first time" step. After this first boot, the screen returns to the "completing installation" page. However, the process dies here and the progress bar across the bottom of the screen never moves, even after an hour. Reformatted the partition and started over with same results. Multiple attempts always die after the first boot.

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Aug 25, 2011

my usb is failing to format am getting a msg windows cannot format

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Sep 13, 2012

I have two drives (C and D) with Vista on one and Win 7 on the other (not sure if they're actual drives or partitions of a single drive, how do I tell?). I am dual booting and never use Vista. Starting to need the disk space and want to delete Vista. Is this difficult in this scenario?

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Removing Vista From Dual Boot Of Windows 7 And Vista?

Apr 5, 2011

I had recently installed windows 7 on my laptop running windows vista. I did not remove the existing windows vista installation, and thus win 7 was installed in a dual boot combination. Now, i want to remove vista from my laptop and use windows 7 only.The problem is that during installation, win 7 was installed on logical drive and windows vista was on the primary drive. Thus, i cannot delete/format the windows vista partition. Also I cannot transfer the boot drive to the partition containing win 7 because the vista partition is the active one.

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Any Advantage To Using Commercial Software To Format / Reinstall Format Listed In Tutorials As Effective

Oct 21, 2011

If I use a commercial software like Drive Scrubber to clean my HD, will a Win 7 Upgrade Discboot ? I want to eliminate any possible virus/malware. Is there any advantage to using commercial software to format, or is the reinstall format listed in the tutorials as effective? My concern is that Kaspersky Internet Security 2012 (KIS) had corrupted data bases and after removal and reinstallation did not perform well. I could not download anything, e.g. CCleaner and received Certificate Error questions on certain websites. Also, I would like a fresh registry to insure previous programs like Chrome, Firefox, KIS, remnants are eliminated.

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Upgrading Vista To Windows 7 Without Installing Vista First?

Mar 23, 2012

I have a legitimate copy of Windows Vista with key codes etc and I have a legitimate upgrade disk for Windows 7. I had Windows 7 installed on a previous system build which had a HD crash and now I am starting again from scratch (wiyh backed up data).

Like a dolt, I installed Wondows 7 before I remembered it was an upgrade edition. I've looked all over the MS site and don't see a method I can use to Activate Windows 7 from this point. way to use my legitimate Windows disks and keys without having to wipe the drive, install Vista and then install Windows 7 yet again.

It's aggravating to have legitimate software and not be able to use it without needing to trick the system - surely there is a way to not have to start all over?

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Low Level Format Versus Clean All/Unconditional Format

Nov 30, 2011

I have a few questions and one of them is, what is the difference between an unconditional format and a diskpart's Clean All in the command prompt. When I read their definitions online I don't know what they differ in.

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Sep 5, 2011

My drive passed SMART extended self test that scans the entire disk surface. Is the full format with command FORMAT FS=NTFS overkill?

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Format External HD Drive Into FAT32 Format?

Jan 14, 2010

i've purchased a seagate 1TB external hard drive and need to format it in FAT32 format.

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Mar 2, 2010

I am giving Fedora (Ext4) the boot from my 150G VelociRaptor and replacing it with Windows 7.What is the difference between a 'Quick' format and a 'Full' format. Does a quick format simply rewrite the FAT and a full format write 0's to the sectors? The reason I ask, is that I am concerned that the Linux Ext4 formatting may leave artifacts which I can do without. So, bite the bullet and go the long route, have lunch and a nap or take the quick way out?

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Mar 16, 2011

I have a Dell Inspiron 15. I can run Oblivion on my computer, but I can't run Fallout 3. It installs fine, but when I get to the starting menu and try to start a new game, it crashes.

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Mar 18, 2012

I have recently upgraded my win vista 32 bit to windows 7 32 bit home premium. If my comp crashes do i need a vista bootable cd or can i repair it from windows 7 cd which i purchased

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Oct 11, 2009

I have dualboot XP SP3 and Vista Ultimate on my system,,and now i want to install Windows 7 over the XP OS. I wish to keep Vista with Windows 7 without reinstalling Vista.

Can I just install Windows 7 over XP , or should i be careful for MBR,or boot....

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May 1, 2011

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Feb 4, 2013

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Oct 7, 2009

I have currently installed ONLY XP Pro. I used to have Vista Premium installed on a separate partition, But I uninstalled that. I purchased Windows 7 Upgrade disk.

Here's the question, Do I need to reinstall Vista to upgrade to 7 using the Vista key?

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May 17, 2012

a few months ago at Christmas I got a new Windows 7 Compaq Laptop. It ran well, and I mainly used it for the internet; however a few days ago I tried to insert a Blank Disc in the drive so I could burn a home-video onto it. However the computer didn't read it. Nothing happened. I went into my Computer and it wasn't there. So I reinserted the blank disc into my mother's computer, which is an XP Computer, and it worked fine. Baffled, I thought nothing of it until today, when I tried to insert a PC game I brought. The computer started up, as though it was going to run - then nothing happened. I went back into My Computer, and no DVD/CD Drive showed up, no autorun...it didn't read the disc.

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Compaq Sr5123wm Drivers For Windows 7?

Feb 26, 2011

I checked the site all it says is that they have multimedia drivers for Lightscribe, I need the drivers for audio does anyone have a link or have it? i tried to download the vista 64 bit but obviously it didnt work it was worth a try though.