Moved to SSD, Windows8 thinks it's Windows To Go!
1) Bought a new laptop with 500GB 5400RPM Drive + embedded 24GB fast boot. 2) Installed some apps from the store, used it for a day or two. 3) Cloned the original drive to an SSD 4) Went back to the...
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Hi there to everyone! To begin, I apologize for my English. So, what happened to me: I had Windows 7 installed, then i decide to install windows 8 and maintain windows 7, that's what i did. and for...
View ArticleSolved Quick Launch bar full of folders - Windows 8
I decided to pay and upgrade my laptop to Win 8 last night having done my desktop a while ago. Its a Dell Vostro 1500 and I've put the 64 bit version on it. I created the quick launch bar as I've done...
View ArticleNo mouse or keyboard when system is booted
I'm having big problems booting my Windows 8 system. When I first boot in the morning, the keyboard and mouse do not work either on the boot screen or once the system has finished booting. However, the...
View ArticleDual-booting Windows 8 and XP
Hello, I'm new to the forum and blah blah blah who cares. I'm not a computer expert here, so I thought about coming here seeking for help. Anyways, into the topic, I wanted to ask a couple of things...
View ArticleUsing X-Box 360 controller on metro instead of KB+M.
I´m wondering if it´s possible to use the gamepad to navigate, since to me it seems logical, and the xbox home button could work as a Win button so it would make perfect sense and 1 analog can be...
View ArticleReloading win 8
I upgraded xp to 8 using the cheap online download. Of course I had to stay with 32 bit and load 8 ontop of xp although deleting the windows old files was not difficult. I believe that the xp product...
View ArticleRemove dual boot and move Win 8 partition
Hi, This is probably a sill question but here goes! I have one hard drive with three partitions; C: Primary with Win 7 - original boot partition. D: Extended partition with Win 8 installed dual booting...
View ArticleProblem upgrading to windows 8
My computer is an Acer Aspire M3970, Core I5, 8 gigs memory, 1 TB hard drive, AMD Radeon 6450 video card, 64 bit, and running Windows 7 Home Premium. I ran Windows 8 Upgrade Assistant and the only...
View ArticleMoving pre-installed Windows 8 from HDD to SSD
Hello, I recently bought a Lenovo Z580 (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834310630) with Windows 8 pre-installed. It did not come with installation discs. I also bought a Samsung...
View Articleplease help, this maybe easy to fix
I had win7 installed, I found out how to installe Win8 without CD or USB, by creating a partition, setting it as active, and put there the win8 files, then with command prompt I type boosect /n60...
View ArticleMedia Center Windows 8 Pro
I have windows 8 pro on my hp pavilion dv7. I wanted to put the free media center on it, but when I put my product key in, it states trouble processing. It was my understanding that this was a free...
View ArticleApostrophes no longer display after installing Win 8 Pro
Happy Christmas all:D After installing Windows 8 Pro (which I'm finding a very good upgrade from Windows 7), apostrophes no longer display on my laptop screen. Perhaps some font present in Windows 7,...
View ArticleDual-Booting Windows 8 and Windows Vista
I recently upgraded my copy of Windows 7 to Windows 8 (using an upgrade-DVD), now after using it for a while I'd like to have the option to boot up Windows 7 too. Unfortunately I only have a windows 7...
View ArticleWindows 8 Software RAID1 not available
I just went through a nasty system crash where I lost a hard drive. I recovered my data and installed Windows 8, and then got the idea to run RAID1. I have two 1TB hard drives (one existing, one brand...
View ArticleMany Win8 issues resolved after moving from dual-boot
I had Win8 and Win7 in a dual boot config on my main desktop PC and I was having many issues with Win8. I couldn't print to any printer (USB or LAN connected), couldn't connect reliably to my server,...
View ArticleSolved Max of 4 partitions on HD- Need another one. What should I
I am attempting to create an NTFS partition in the unallocated space on my hard drive to be used as a shared data partition between Ubuntu 12.10 and Windows 8. I have attached a screen shot from Disk...
View ArticleSolved Install Win 8 Pro Upgrade 64 bit on a Vista 32 bit PC
I'm running a 32 bit Vista Home Premium HP desktop that has developed a corrupted file system on the hard drive. There is only one CEC error on the hard drive but it is causing a failure to create...
View ArticleWin8 Win7 dual boot issue
I have a new windows8 preloaded laptop, and I found a tutorial on this forum on how to dual boot with win7. Im not sure if windows8 has anything to do with it, but when I boot to the DVD to install...
View Articlehow to get back windows 8 dual boot option in graphic styl
hi friends, i have installed windows 8 and windows 7 in my pc. i installed windows 7 at ffirst and then insatalled windows 8 .during the installtion process it asked me which o s is to choose in...
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