On laptop computers the Windows certificate of authenticity is printed on a piece of paper which is attached to the bottom of the device. Unfortunately, the license key gets damaged and you cannot read it.Is there some way to overcome this problem? Is there some kind of laminate plastic that can be used to cover the paper
View 9 RepliesI have been trying to format a partition I created on my harddrive for my laptop. I booted from a disk into a program called GParted (live CD version). I used this to format the partition I created. Then, once I had finished attempting this task, my lack of expertise in computing took it's toll. I chose the option to create a disk label on the partition. I mistook this operation for something innocuous. It gave me a warning of some sort, which I ignored since I didn't think would be a problem since the recently formatted partition would be empty. This operation took a few seconds (30 or so) and once completed the drive map above said 685 GB unallocated space (or the size of my entire hard drive). I was very scared at this point so I restarted my comp and booted to hard drive and all I get is a blank screen and a mockingly blinking cursor. Now I am trying to see what my factory recovery disk can do for me. Using the windows recovery console I have attempted to repair this. Looking at the details, it runs a few tests. then sees that there is no valid partition, and tries to repair the partition. I restart and nothing has changed. Reattempting the repair just does the same thing and doesn't have any visible affect. Although it looked bad at this point there is some good news. In the recovery console I have attempted to load drivers from the other recovery disk. When the window opens to browse the disk I am able to navigate to the other drives (that I thought were gone) and it seems that all my system and personal files are still intact. I rebooted into GParted and it seems that the original hard drive is visible again and intact. However, I still can't boot!
I do have one option that is unnattractive to me. I have considered reinstalling windows to the partition I created, then once in the OS I could backup all my files to an external device, then redo everything from scratch. However, I am concerned that in the process of installing Windows 7 that I might everything for real. Maybe someone could affirm or repair my paranoia about this? However, I don't want to do this because I have been setting up this laptop for the last 2 weeks and I really don't want to spend the next 2 weeks doing it all over again (although it wouldn't be so bad if i could recover all my downloads and personal files).
Tech Support Guy System Info Utility version 1.0.0.2
OS Version: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium, Service Pack 1, 64 bit
Processor: AMD A4-3420 APU with Radeon(tm) HD Graphics, AMD64 Family 18 Model 1 Stepping 0
Processor Count: 2
RAM: 3570 Mb
Graphics Card: AMD Radeon HD 6410D Graphics, 512 Mb
Hard Drives: C: Total - 936682 MB, Free - 884422 MB; D: Total - 17083 MB, Free - 2133 MB;
Motherboard: PEGATRON CORPORATION, 2ACF
Antivirus: Kaspersky Internet Security, Updated and Enabled
When using Word to print return mailing labels on Avery 8167 sheets, the font cannot be reduced to fit the label.
I purchased a LITEON DVD 8X Burner , with lightScribe technology but it did not come with any instructions on how to actually make a label using the DVD burner
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I have tried to open an image in my laptop and I can't either, so I think that the install damaged all the files I had (photos of my life, etc).
Anyone knows why it has happened? any way to fix or recover the damaged files?
2-week old Sony I7 laptop operating okay but slow and odd things not working correctly. Example is selecting START-Printers & Devices..>No icons shown despite working printers, external drives, etc..Slow overall considering horsepower of system and since OEM software my backup boot disks self-created likely to have same errors? I have run Cleaner which I have now read although fine product that it is NOT recommended to run any. Question is is it best to get all registry errors corrected by smart tech folks or just bite bullet and get a known good Win 7 disk and install it new?
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The health status says I have 16 unstable sectors. How can I find which file is damaged before backing up my files to another drive?
my dvd/cd driers have been damaged in the registry
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View 9 Replies View RelatedRunning win 7. Just scanned my C drive w/ESET and the scan turned up several damaged archived files (see below).Should I:
1. Delete the damaged archived files shown trusting that there won't be any repercussions later?
2. Leave everything as is and forget about it?
3. Any reason not to delete the damaged files and leave everything as is since all is currently good?
C:Program FilesAgnitumOutpost Firewall Proupdate_oss20downloaded filespreset.741.zip � ZIP � - archive damaged
C:Program FilesOpenOffice.org 3Basisprogrampython-core-2.6.1lib est esttar.tar � TAR � - archive damaged
C:System Volume Information\_restore{32C01AA8-6EC4-44FD-985D-F6ABA071DF2B}RP674A0274546.exe � NSIS � openofficeorg1.cab � CAB � testtar.tar � TAR � - archive damaged
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I've been using TrueCrypt 7.0a to encrypt the partitions on my external and internal hard drives for quite some time now. In fact, because I had no other available space, I copied a disc iso to one such partition just last night? This morning, however, when I try to mount and access that partition, Windows won't recognize the mounted partition, and when I run "repair filesystem" from within TrueCrypt -- the equivalent of running chkdsk from a command prompt, I get: Corrupt master file table. Windows will attempt to recover master file table from disk. After a lengthy wait (it IS a 250GB partition), it returns the message I least want to hear: Windows cannot recover master file table. CHKDSK aborted.
View 9 Replies View RelatedSo today I removed Ubuntu today and now my Windows 7 won't boot, I remember a long time ago this happen and I fixed it with a line In command prop but I can't remember what the command was.
View 7 Replies View RelatedAlways had SP1 fail to install, so this weekend i decided to look into a bit more and try and sort it. Ran SFC and got the following error
2011-11-12 17:06:32, Info CSI 00000314 [SR] Cannot verify component files for Microsoft-Windows-Font-TrueType-Narkisim, Version = 6.1.7600.16385, pA = PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE_AMD64 (9), Culture neutral, VersionScope = 1 nonSxS, PublicKeyToken = {l:8 b:31bf3856ad364e35}, Type neutral, TypeName neutral, PublicKey neutral, manifest is damaged (TRUE)
I have tried uninstalling the the font mentioned and reinstalling from my installation disc, i have ran a disk scan and a virus check but it keeps showing up? The other odd thing is i'm running an Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 not AMD?