Solved Removing Old OS Partition
good day folks, in a nutshell. my roommate did a thorough wipe of his c drive, then installed 7 then 8.1.1. for some reason he cannot boot in to the win 7 partition. after building up and getting 8.1.1...
View ArticleClean install from a pre-installed Win 8 laptop?
Hi Windows 8 forums, I'm from Windows 7 and don't know much about windows 8. I wanted to know if my laptop came pre-installed with windows 8 (not sure what edition), can I just boot...
View ArticleMove OS From HDD To SSD
Which way is better? 1. Remove Hard Drive and install Windows on SSD. Then add HDD and select boot from SSD. Then delete OS from HDD. 2. Delete files from HDD. Then clone HDD to SSD. Is there a way to...
View ArticleRecovery CD
My Asus laptop does not give me an option to make recovery CD's it only shows USB as the only option. The laptop has no built in CD-DVD but I have external drive..... Can I make recovery CD's.... I did...
View Articlereinstall windows 8.1
hi everyone I have just upgraded to windows 8.1. When I had windows 8 installed and I wanted to re-install I had the acer management system built in so that I could re-install the system, I don't seem...
View ArticleInstalling on an asus ultrabook s500ca
I have an Asus ultrabook s500ca. It has a 24gb ssd and a 500gb hdd. How should I go about installing 8.1 on this thing? Do I install it to the 24gb ssd or do I install it to the 500gb hdd.. The way...
View ArticleSolved Installing Windows 8 from Ubuntu
I was running Windows 8, but long story short the OS crashed and I had no access to my product key to reinstall it so now I'm running Ubuntu. I'm starting to get a feel for Ubuntu, and it's really not...
View ArticleSecondary Monitor not being detected in Windows 8.1
I recently received a second monitor for the use of a secondary monitor, but it has a VGA port and no DVI port. This was an issue because my graphics card (NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760) does not have a VGA...
View ArticleReloading windows 8 or 8.1 with a failed Hard Drive
Hello all We are a computer repair shop, we seem to be having the same issue other shops and or people are having, Reloading windows 8 or 8.1 on a system that the product key is embedded in the Bios....
View ArticleASUS Recovery partition
Hi All, I've read a lot of posts and a little confused. I upgraded ASUS S400CA to 8.1 . I just need to create a recovery disk with the option of copy from recovery partition which is graded out as many...
View ArticleHow to switch back to windows 8 from windows 8.1
I'm pretty upset and annoyed right now Windows kept bugging me to update to windows 8.1 so eventually I said whatever and did, but I did not expect all this to happen It has messed up my PC, for some...
View ArticleNew Acer Lap Top came with Linux - How to Install Win 7?
Hey everyone, I'm new here. I am nearing depression here. Spent almost 6 hours now trying to do a simple thing, a thing I've been doing for a decade now on various computers and lap tops; which is...
View ArticleUpgrading from evaluation version with old key
Hi there, I recently went through a ton of issues with my lenovo y510p laptop and since it didn't come with a recovery disc, I was forced to reinstall windows 8 through a recovery disc on a usb stick....
View ArticleASUSM2N-E Won't boot Win 8.1 after BIOS update
Okay guys, first post. Long story short, my friend has a really old PC that he's gotten off of his parents. It has an ASUS M2N-E motherboard with an old single core AMD Athlon 64 (I cannot remember...
View ArticleSolved How to copy my OS with Windows Updates?
My new PC should arrive today(7/3) or on sunday(7/6),i want to install my OS(Windows 8.1 Enterprise 64bit) on it. I just don't want to spend time downloading & installing all the Windows Updates,so...
View ArticleInfo: Microsoft has changed the 8 to 8.1 process again...
It appears, if you have done an 8.0 to 8.1 update since approximately June 1, the Recovery operations are now being handled in a Recovery Folder on the OS partition. Seems it has gone back to the...
View ArticleWindows 8 to 8.1 Upgrade failed - must upgrade System BIOS
Yesterday, I clean-installed Windows 8 Pro x86 on an old Dell Vostro 1400 laptop which had been running Windows 7 Ultimate, and it activated and ran fine, without even a single exclamation point in...
View ArticleIs it safe to resize the WindowsRE hard drive partition?
Here's my situation. My computer is running Windows 8.1 There is only 1 physical HD, but it has many partitions. Here is a picture of my current HD setup Attachment 46279...
View ArticleInstalling 8.1 help.
I have an asus s500ca ultrabook it has a 24gb ssd which is being used as a cache drive and a 500gb HDD which has windows installed on it. If I wipe out the 500gb hdd and re-install windows 8.1 on it...
View ArticleWindows 8.1 upgrade fail
Anyone point me in the right direction. I think I have the windows media package. Any tips would help, as there are some apps on the windows store I would like to download and I can't =(
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