ACER aspire V5 factory recovery not working (command line)
hello everyone, I have the original factory partition in my disk but it won't boot.(W8) won't start recovery. is there a command line to start recovery? I have unattend.xml file in that partition , but...
View ArticleHow do I flush the SSD on a 1TB Hybrid drive?
My newest hard drive in my desktop PC is a Seagate 1TB Hybrid Drive. It has an SSD and Mechanical hard drive, in the same case. I somehow contracted Ebola of the Hard Drive (boot sector virus) and...
View ArticleIssue with Asus X550L UEFI settings
I installed Windows 8.1 (64) with UEFI in my Asus X550L laptop (I refer this forum UEFI USB guide). After the installation I can see 4 partitions. Just like the tutorial mentioned. Once the Windows 8.1...
View ArticleWindows 8.1 Other Operating Systems are Not Booting
Greetings Friends, I have Installed Windows 8.1 Couple of weeks ago and before that i had windows 7 So now i have both means DUALBOOTED so i have windows 7 and 8.1 both But When The Boot Manager...
View ArticleSolved Adding Language Pack to 'Windows 8.1 with Bing'
Hi, I am looking to buy a laptop here in Germany where I live, but as an 'auslander' (i.e foreigner), my native language is English, so I'm wondering if its possible to change the user language to...
View ArticleSome help with dual booting
Hi, I bought an HP with Windows 8.1 installed. I put in a second hard drive, unplugged the drive with Windows 8 installed, and installed Windows 7 on that drive, then plugged back in the Windows 8...
View ArticleBIOS Updating
Wanted to know if i did a BIOS update can it be easily reversed in case of a failure. Some say by re-flashing the old BIOS back in, some say you need to remove the battery inside case and put it back...
View Articlepagefile issue
My Pagefile ,virtual memory increased all of a sudden on it's own to the size of my RAM 16GB Originally was set as total paging file size for all drives Minimum allowed: 16 MB Recommended : 5627 MB...
View ArticleCan't install Windows on a SSD using Recovery USB drive
I have just bought an Asus laptop N550JK-DS71T which comes with a 1 Tb HDD and Windows 8.1. My intention was to swap the drive with a SSD. I have read that cloning the drive to the SSD is an option but...
View ArticleFresh Install Windows 8.1 using Windows 8 OEM Key
Hello there, I've been searching around these forums, and google alike, for a concrete answer to this issue. However there is so much conflicting evidence I just don't know what to do. So here is my...
View ArticleObtaining Windows 8 key
Hello. I have recently purchased an SSD drive to my laptop, sony VAIO sve1512. The PC had Windows 8 installed, but there is no sticker with code on the case. I wanted to install Win8 on SSD, but I have...
View Articlewhere to download bootsect.exe for windows 8.1
Hi. I'm currently using lenovo laptop running on windows 8.1 but i've some problem during startup. It says : FATAL ERROR: One or more pointer table key is invalid. Modification could be unsafe. So i...
View Articlewhere can i download microsoft office 2013 for free?
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View ArticleCan't install MS Office 13. Error Code 1603.
Hello everyone, this is my 1st post. I have had Office 13 working on my system before. And when I ran a chkdsk, Office apps started not to work. I tried repairing them with the Office CD but that...
View ArticleReinstall Windows 8 on a new HDD after previous one died
Hi Folks, I would GREATLY appreciate some advice please. 1. New Lenovo laptop Feb 2014 with Win 8, which had been upgraded to 8.1. 2. HDD died in a blaze of glory yesterday 3. No idea of the key 4....
View ArticleHow to re-install win 8 from D drive if I can't start win
My Lenovo crashed and won't start and I can't even get to the repair options screen. I backed up all my files by starting the computer from a flash drive with linux and accessing the files in read only...
View ArticleSolved Windows 8.1 not acting like 8.1
Hey guys/gals Just installed Windows 8.1 pro on a newly bought SSD drive, and for some odd reason, even though it says 8.1 on the system page. it's not acting like 8.1 as it's missing some stuff. First...
View ArticleClean Windows 8 Install on Blank Disk with no OS
Hi all, My current Windows 7 machine's hard drive is about to fail. I have all the data backed up and I have a new blank hard drive ready to go. I could go into detail on why I can't install Windows 7...
View Article[help request] action center cygwin question
hello... i'm mike. so,, i've built a new pc. not entirely new, it's two months old i guess. on the action center, there's a notification saying to solve a problem with cygwin. what's cygwin? i don't...
View ArticleDisabling Secure Mode doesn't disable UEFI
Hello, I'm trying to disable UEFI on my computer. I did this on some other PC's and it all worked out fine, but I got stuck with this one. The BIOS does have a "secure boot", "fast boot", and "quiet...
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