I have a old pc, after formatting and installing windows on it successfully, only to restart half way and freezes up. someone help me out, about what to do, every help will be highly appreciated. thxsUpdate: Just tried to put winxp disc in and start a reformat but again nothing happens and it just goes back to the same screen mentioned above.
View 1 RepliesI recieved the following message after a forced restart after windows updates were installed: "We are sorry for any inconvenience but Windows was unable to start successfully" My options are to start in Safe Mode , Last known config or normal. Safe Mode is the only thing that works. Also System Restore would not work Also System Recovery from Sony Vaio Recovery Wizard would not work
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I started having issues with IE8 although I do use Firefox for browsing, but still have to do my Windows updates and such. Then I ran a utility download to clean up PC and registry and lost the ability to do updates, and can't install Windows products, and my disk drives have driver issues. No, I did not backup or do restore point and I have tried my restore points to no avail.
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1) can I erase the directories the programs previously installed in the old version of windows?
As you can see in the attachments, I have installed my windows under the partition D: , so can I just go and erase all the folders of the utilities of my previously installed windows in C: ?
2) just out of curiosity, I tried to run some utilities previously installed and some of them work, other dont work. what does this mean?
3) at the system startup, how can I erase the choice between the 4 windows? I just want to leave this present working version.
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i am living in costa rica and just recently purchased what i believe to be a refurbished hp nc6000. in downloading some items from microsoft, i confirmed that i have authentic xp professional installed. however, the previous owner could not provide me with the original cd, hense my dilema. in deleting some previously loaded software, i believe i inadvertantly deleted some shared files for other programs. is there anyway without the original disk to repair the installation or operating system. i have read about hidden partitions and the like, but am not confident enough to try this. i have the serial numbers and whatnot for my xp professional software, so i am not sure if having that info allows me to do anything without the actual cd. one of the problems is i have downloaded internet explorer 7 but it fails to completely install. i have gotten the most recent service packs and updates from microsoft but still no progress. i would go out to the local best buy and get the appropriate software new if i wasnt living in the middle of a third world country. there are computer repair shops close to me, but everyone has spanish operating systems and mine is xp in english and i cant afford to chance losing it. is there any way to recreate the software or operating system back to its original format with all original folders and files intact?
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"Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt: windows rootsystem32hal.dll Please re-install a copy of the above file. Where do I find the above dll and if its on the xp CD...where on the XP CD would it be?
My friend recently gave me his computer after buying a new one. It's actually pretty decent by totally crippled by viruses and stuff. When he gave it to me, he had Ubuntu and XP installed on it. The XP would no longer start (blue screen) and I couldn't use Ubuntu for what I wanted to do. I reinstalled windows, however I didn't know which partition was Ubuntu and which was the broken Windows. It didn't really matter to me at the time, so I just picked one and overwrote it.Now, I've realized that I made the wrong choice. It claims I have two hard drives in my now working version of Windows: C: and D:. D: is the one I'm acutally using, but it's only 20 GB large while the C: with the bad version of Windows is 150 GB. I don't need any information off of C:, so is there some way I can just delete it and add the extra hard drive space to the partition I actually use?
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I have tried to repair it by booting off the original XP setup CD but when the computer starts up the CD is not read and the error message pops up again. Any suugetstion?
I'm running windows xp pro...i'm trying to install an ethernet card and a box comes up asking for the windows cdrom to look for drivers it needs...problem is i don't have my copy of windows xp...is there a place on the computer that i can browse to find what it's looking for...i guess i'm asking if when windows xp pro is installed does it copy everything to the computer in a file somewhere. otherwise i don't know if it would be better just to buy another ethernet card or if i would have the same problem. i do have the floppy that came with the ethernet card but it says the file i need is not on the floppy...?
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Thanks
I want to know how to repair windows installation without losing ANY files.
View 5 Replies View RelatedI have been having trouble with a potential virus ever since I visited a google link where instead of a page loading IE crashed. Spybots teatime gave me a bunch of popups about changed entries which I was forced to accept. Since then I've had adspyware reappear over and over. Ad-aware detected it and removed it, but clearly not the underlying problem. System been running slow. I was in a game where I shut down a bunch of background programs including avg antivirus,teatime & zonealarm to free up resources. When I shut down teatime it gave me a bunch of messages about blocked changes. These set of popups had to be forceably closed. Then my system was running at a crawl. So I exited the game and restarted my PC. Now after the XP loading screen I get a black screen with no hdd light/activity. No save mode variation works either.(or previous working configeration etc) Fortunately I had win98 duel booted for older games. If a virus has caused this problem, its undetectable by many a antivirus program. Maybe some rootkit thing? What do I do? Hijackthis only checks the OS it runs under and I can only run win98. BTW, can't reinstall XP because I lost the CD. Assuming what ever rootkit virus wouldnt still be there to prevent loading anyways.
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It gets as far as Setup is Starting Windows (after loading in all the background drivers) and then Blue Screens with error 0x0000007b. I have scoured the internet and found nothing of any use on this error code.
It does state that when installing from USB to ensure that no other USB devices are plugged in but the mouse and keyboard themselves are USB devices.
I decided to get rid of my "Symantec Antivirus" program, but I couldn't find a way to uninstall it, so I deleted the program folder (with included files) and the related shortcuts and left it up to my registry cleaners to get the rest. However, whenever I right-click on an icon or the desktop, it gives me a couple of Systemac Antivirus installation windows that I have to cancel out of before I get my right-click menu. My registry cleaners, anti-spyware, and anti-virus programs can't find anything. Searching for "Symantec" provides no results. How do I fix this?
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I'm running a Dell Inspiron E1505. My wireless was having a problem. I followed the steps outlined in this post. ://forums.techguy.org/networking...-internet.html Mainly I went into command prompt and did the following: Reset WINSOCK entries to installation defaults: netsh winsock reset catalog Reset TCP/IP stack to installation defaults. netsh int ip reset reset.log When I went to restart my computer wouldn't turn on! The power light is illuminated, the CD drive clicks once, but other than that nothing happens.
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