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Hello i restart my pc one's and i din't go to my os but something saying it dint start properly and it says it fixed evry thing and testarted than but i dindent it was going in automatic repair mode and than to advansed opties ant evry thing i dit it just dit the same over and over again can some one help me

so i got windows 10 cause i heard they gonna stop supporting windows 8 and 7. the problem is i got a few pirated games i cant find on origin, nor steam like battlefield 1942 (i love old games btw). and windows 10 didnt let me play my game so i have two HDD one im using the other is not plugged in i thought why not install windows 8 on that HDD and have two windows on my computer and when i want to change to the win 8 drive i change my boot device. can that happen or are there any problems with that

Recently just installed a patcher for a certain program and instead got bad stuff. Loaded up windows about 15 windows popped up on the desktop. Then blue screen of death pops up. Restarted computer and it just won't go away. My laptop is the MSI GT70 Dominator. It loads to fast for me to go into the bios to run safe mode. What can I do? Any other info needed just ask 64bit win 8

This answer is going to be so obvious to experts but I ordered a GPU and it says in the System Requirements "Windows 8 Pro". Does this mean I need Windows 8 Pro to use this card or can I use it with Windows 10, which is what I have. Please help me out. Oh also, do I need to disable my Intel HD Graphics before I install this card? Thanks in advance.

Hey guys. I have a Windows 8.1 OS and I have this problem with the music folder. I am trying to rename this file because it has a lower case and it wont change. The problem is only within the music folder because I tried moving it out of the folder, changing the name and then putting it back in but it goes back to its original state. Any ideas?

I finally built my pc but when entering the UEFI I don´t really know how to install windows, the motherboard is supposed to come with it. There's a disk that came with the motherboard but my pc does not have the dvd drive. Is it possible to move the files of te disk to a USB?

I've got my self built pc for about 3 months. Just from yesterday, i noticed a static noise whenever i have a tiny little lag. It's not just in games. While browsing on chrome or opening new tabs, it occur. Even when refreshing the page The noise sounds like when your earpiece jack is about to fray and have to bend a side to hear. I've tried reinstalling my driver, realtek HD audio. For a while it's fine. But about 5 mins later it came back. Any idea?

Hello, I bought a new SSD (sandisk ultra II 240gb) for my PC. It shows up in the sandisk software, and in my bios, but when I go into windows explorer, it won't show up. Thanks!

Ok. Here is the back story. I decided to re install a fresh copy of windows 8 on my desktop. I'm not worried about saving any files on the ssd, so I have re formatted the ssd with the previous os on it (500g), but I also have a smaller ssd that I bought later ( 250 ). What I wanted to do was reformat both the ssd's and re install a fresh copy of windows onto the 250 ssd, while saving the 500g for storage and daily use. When I began the install and clicked the customize, it sent me to the screen with all the currently detected storage devices. I previously disconnect all except the 2 SSDs. Unfortunately, I keep getting a message , " Unable to install windows on this disk" I have googled this issue extensively and have partitioned the disk using the command prompt , diskpart>list disk>select disk _>clean. No luck. There are a few other things that I've done in the command prompt that have to do with the MBR and GPT, with no luck either. In the error message, it also said to make sure that the controller for the desired disk was enabled in the BIOS. I have checked to make sure that all of them are. The interesting thing is, even after I have cleaned the disks, and partitioned them, windows will only re install on the original 500g SSD. Anyone have any idea how to fix this? Its not the end of the world if I have to use the 500g, but its bothering the hell outta me that I can't figure this out.

Hello, I need help getting windows 10 on my pavilion 23" AIO I did a clean reinstall from the settings of windows 10 due to a virus. What happened is that now its back to windows 8 and the update is completely gone at least I think. Along with how to get Word back installed again to the system. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

So, I was helping my friend do the free upgrade from windows 8 to windows 10, but he bought his computer with windows 8 and messed up the System Key for windows (Because when you buy a computer with windows on it it has its own key called "Default Key" or "System Key") , so all of his recovery setting won't load (the load might not be this). I am basically wondering how to fix it back to "default key" so I can download windows 10 to it. Also, I would recover it from OEM but it won't let me. It is a Toshiba Satellite. Thanks for any help.

So my laptop started on Windows 8 and I upgraded it to windows 10, If I fully restore my computer from the recovery partition, will it go to windows 8 or windows 10?

My laptop that I used for college and on the go has been practically unusable for about a few months now. Ever since I built my PC, I have barely touched the thing, only resetting back to factory settings in an attempt to fix everything up. Unfortunately, that did not solve the problem, and I have no idea what I am supposed to do now. No other computer has ever given me this amount of trouble before. Essentially, my CPU is constantly being used even if I have no. Freaking. Windows. Open. The paging also occurs at the same time. The usual culprits, according to Task Manager, are Windows Modules Installer Worker (CPU and Disk), System (Disk), Service Host: Local System (Disk), and now .NET Runtime Optimization Service. (CPU) The parentheses are what programs are using that are slowing my laptop down. Here are the specs: Name: Toshiba Satellite L875D-S7332. CPU: AMD-A6-4400M with AMD Radeon HD 7520G GPU: See the CPU. RAM: 6GB DDR3 SDRAM-1600 MHz OS: Windows 8. This same problem occurred with 8.1, and the fact that even resetting back to factory settings did not solve this issue is a big surprise. Thanks in advance!

Ok, so quick run down of what has happened and what I know. I shut down last night using the "shutdown and update" option and went to sleep. I woke up this morning and it booted and tried to finish the update. Once the update was finish it went to the log in screen but locked up. I gave it some time but decided to restart it. At this point it flew past the BIOS screen and sat in a black screen with a flashing underscore line like a blank terminal. After some research most people said this is signs of hard drive failure. I started messing inside, trying different sata cords, different sata ports, and even connected the SSD via a usb connector but could not get the system to properly boot. I then connected the SSD via usb to my laptop and at the very least have access to all of my files on it. Is there anyway I can fix the OS from here or should I just try to save my files and format the drive, I'd like to avoid the second option as I was using an old free windows license that I don't have access to anymore and don't want to pay to buy another. Any help or advice would be much appreciated.

I just got started into making computers and im looking for good parts for a gaming pc that has windows 8. I dont know exactly what to buy and my friend told me to come here to look for help.

Hi This may sound stupid, but i have a question. I am running out of space, but i have a 1TB Hard drive just laying around. It was the drive for my old PC. My plan was to sell the PC so i clicked on "Factory reset" or something like that, and i never used the PC since. I ended up taking it apart, and now i'm stuck here with useless PC parts everywhere. I was wondering if i can use the drive as a secondary storage drive, even if it has the factory software on it.

I recently tried to upgrade my OS on my old desktop, so i created a bootable USB disk and tried to boot from it.As soon as it restarts there is just a blank screen with a blinking cursor.I tried using a optical disk but there was no improvement.I have already tried changing the software used to create the bootable drive.I have tried with different ISO files.I have checked my BIOS and have allowed to boot from USB devices, I also tried setting my boot preference first to usb. Please help me out guys!?

UPDATE: The drive was fixed by a Command Prompt.. uh.. command. With help I used the diskpart command and it worked like a charm. Help Please I was trying to do a fresh install of Windows 8 on my PC when I started to encounter some weird behaviour from one of my mechanical drives. My personal computer had one WD Blue 1TB drive and one WD Green 1TB drive that I used in Raid 0 for many years (without problems). I wanted to put one HDD into another computer, so I went into the motherboard's RAID controller and deleted the configuration. I wanted the Blue drive for my personal computer. It was the only mechanical drive that was installed when I started the Windows 8 installation via OEM Disk I bought from NCIX. When it came to choosing which drive to install Windows on, no drives were available. I went into the motherboard's BIOS and made sure that the drive had been recognized, which it was, and second in the boot order. Then I checked that I had put the SATA ports configuration as IDE and not RAID, so it couldn't have been that. After checking those two things in the BIOS I ran the installation a second time without success. I ran the installation three more times checking specific SATA slots, both SB and ASMedia, and changed the SATA cable once. Still nothing had changed: The drive was detected in the BIOS but not in the Windows Setup Wizard. Next I hit Google with several iterations of my problem and did not find a specific scenario that had matched mine. Then I used another PC to format both the Blue and Green drives as NTFS as I didn't know what state the drives were in. I thought if the Blue drive had this problem, the Green one did too (although I hadn't tried it in the Windows Setup yet). To my surprise both Blue and Green drives were visible and usable on that third party computer I used to format them on. Back on my personal computer, I tried the Blue drive again and I was angry to see that Windows Setup still had not recognized that it was there. Finally I swapped it out for the Green drive and it was detected and I am running Windows 8. I thought then, maybe it's my personal computer's motherboard, it has an issue with the Blue drive now. I went the my computer I wanted to setup my media PC on and tried to install Windows on the Blue drive. IT DIDN'T SEE THE DRIVE!! Something along the lines of "Did not detect any available drives to install Windows onto." So upset with the whole situation I'm writing this post to as for help figuring out why I can't install Windows on this Western Digital hard drive. As a last resort, I plugged the Blue drive into my personal computer (now running windows) and it was detected and I could put files onto it. In summary: I had two drives in RAID 0 for 3 years; The Blue drive does not show up in Windows Setup from DVD boot on neither my personal computer nor my media PC BUT does show up on a third party computer and my personal computer once windows is already installed; The Green drive works perfectly, despite given the same treatment at the Blue drive. Please help me install windows on my media PC! Thank you for reading about my problem. Here are my specs for the various computer towers: Personal Computer: AMD FX6350 ASUS M5A99FX PRO R2.0 Kingston HyperX DDR3 1333 2x8GB Media PC: AMD Phenom II 1090T GIGABYTE GA-890FXA-UD5 Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1333 2x4GB Third Party PC: AMD Athlon II 255 ASUS M5A78L-M LX unspecified DDR3 2x2GB

Greetings. I had grown rather attached to a certain feature of OSX called 'Quick Look', which would bring up a quick preview of a selected file by pressing the spacebar, and would allow me to quickly navigate through files with the arrow keys. However, the Windows 8 photo viewer does not allow this, and instead takes up the entire screen. Is there an app that performs similarly to Quick Look? (Or even OSX Preview, for what it's worth). Regards, Aereldor.

Hi, so I'm planning on getting a new system this holiday season and I'm wondering which operating system I should buy. Here's a list of the available operating systems for sale on retail here arranged from least expensive to most expensive - Win8.1 OEM 32/64 bit medialess* Win8 Pro FPP Win8.1 OEM 64 bit *I have no idea what the "medialess" there means by the way. And the difference in prices of the ones listed above aren't that huge, but I'd rather save that little bit of cash anyway. So, I'm wondering which one here grants me full access to upgrade to Windows 10. Are there different versions of Windows 10? If there are, should I be concerned? This is the cheapest way to get Windows 10, right? Any tips?

Hey guys! I was just wondering if you bought a new laptop right now (buying one soon for school) that has Windows 8.1 pre-loaded, if you could still upgrade to Windows 10. Is the deal still avaliable? And if it is, does it work for brand new laptops? I already upgraded my gaming pc, and I love W10. Would be great to have it on the laptop too. Thanks!

Let me start at the begging, About 4 months ago I spilled milk on my laptop's keyboard some of the keys stopped working (q, a, s). I find an old keyboard that my dad is not using and started to use that, it was here where I discovered that they board would type "z" when I press the letter "s". so I say that'z fine thinking the problem was with the keyboard, so I download a program called "Microsoft keyboard layout creator" and make a new layout remapping the letter "s" to type when I press the letter "z" and the letter "z" to type when I press "s". Except then the key "s" would still type s even though I remapped it to type the letter z. Fast forward a few months (few weeks ago) I decided to look at some computer parts to build me a new rig. So I decided to wait until january when I have enough money to splash on the computer. Today I saw a great deal for a g710+ keyboard for $50 in a local hardware store near me so I decided to buy it. So now i'm sitting with a brand new keyboard having the same problem where pressing the s key would type the letter z. I'm getting really frustrated because whenever I have to type a paper I need to copy and paste the letter s for it to work. I took a picture of my onscreen keyboard to show that in fact all the keys are mapped correctly but it is not typing them correctly. This is a very unique problem and has never happened to me before. I'd like to send a special shout out to auto correct https://i.gyazo.com/f580dead41976c54eeb264842fcd7c9d.png

Heya =3 I have a question regarding the free windows 10 upgrade. I have not installed it yet, as i've been planning to start fresh on a new SSD first. My question is, will I still get the free upgrade option if I first install win 8 on my new SSD? Thanks~

EDIT: Wrong Section, meant to post this to Troubleshooting. Background So awhile ago I had been recieving blue screens from any windows update other than a vanilla OS on Windows 8.1, when the free update came I had installed 10 and it was smooth sailing from there on, but recently I had blue screened out of rare occurrence and windows automatically installed all of its updates upon rebooting. Which then caused me to blue screen every 3-10 minutes. I tried to simply uninstall the updates like I had done a few times before which worked fine, but this time a few of the updates where not able to be uninstalled. So i tried to do a system restore to the day prior to this happening, which as said above, I blue screen, which lead to me blue screening during system recovery. I then tried to reboot and was welcomed to a black screen without my usual password login, displaying a simple Driver Error with my Wacom tablet, you could tell windows was still there in the background, but nothing was able to escape it. We tried an image restoration, and the image restore went down with windows. My last hope to my knowledge is to reinstall windows. The Loop So here I am, trying to reinstall windows. Mashing esc to boot into a USB [Other options wouldnt even do anything] with Windows 8 on it, since Windows 10 replaced my keys with Generic keys after we had them pulled off a Geeksquad USB. So those didnt work, we where found to have a Windows 8.1 Key, and a Windows 10 Key, both where generic, and would not be accepted by Windows 10 installers, nor did the 8.1 key work. So I put a Windows 8 installer on the USB and the motherboard picked the key up fine unlike the others for other versions. When I try to install via "Upgrade" [Note: system is on Windows 10, trying to reinstall to 8] I would be greeted with a message telling me "Windows has started using the recovery media,......" and I would have to boot normally and plug it back in, so I did, but, hence the reason I need to reinstall windows, It will not open or detect it, or anything for that matter. So what my last hope is, doing the "Advanced Option" and dealing with deleteing / formatting partitions. Which i know nothing about sadly. There are 5 Partitions, I know nothing about what to do with them, I read usually you have multiple ones if you have multiple drives, I only have 1 Drive in this laptop. So I am here, wondering if anyone here can help me out of this situation. Q: I was told "In theory" my key is tied to my motherboard, and removing the main drive my key will still be detected if i put in a new drive and try and reinstall windows 8. If that would work, I would then format the original drive with the corrupted OS. Q: I was told that I can just simply delete EVERY partition, and then just select the single last partition that would be by default there. And install from there. Picture of partitions Message I get via "Upgrade" option

Soo i just cleaned out the old desktop computer and found this Wi-Fi USB antenna that is actually pretty good. My internet speed is 75-75 and somehow i managed to get 80 download, 79 upload and 16 ms. Although, cable is more superiour, i wondered if i could let the cable do the gaming and wifi do like the background (teamspeak, steam, spotify etc). Is that possible? kinda like the x99 motherboards with dual ethernet. Thanks! DxDiag.txt