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• I have a hard drive with windows xp, ive got the activation code, but it will not accept it.

  Hey what is that I built a desktop computer and this friend gave me a hard drive with windows xp on it and he gave me the activation code, I tried in my computer and told me
  to communicate with you by telephone imed them all the information they demand and said it had been hacked and to get in touch with microsoft can yo help me please. sincerely, Mr. B Burnett.

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  You have the product key for Windows XP?

  I suggest to return the item to you and check if you have a genuine copy of Windows XP:

  How to activate Windows XP

  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/307890

  Windows Genuine Advantage does not validate a copy of Windows XP

  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/916247

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• Installation hard drive with Windows XP operating system in another computer

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• Upgrade from Windows 7 to Windows 10 for free. Format a hard drive with Windows 10. Same upgrade again.

  I have laptop which has been also upgraded from Windows 7 to Windows 10. But it works very well. But on PC I upgraded from Windows 7 to Windows 10 free without entering a product key. So at the beginning I had same problem as in this case:

  http://answers.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows/Forum/windows_8-update/blackgrey-screen-after-update-and-restart/a3b479de-b565-48D9-8640-73ba8dcdc5d8
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• Unable to format hard drive for Windows

  Hello, I need your help here! You receive the same error message saying: "Windows is unable to complete the format" when you try to format an external hard drive on your computer? Honestly, the hard drive of my dell computer recently asked just to get in shape when it has been used on my Windows 7 computer. However, when I click on Yes to format this drive with my lost player documents and files, windows says just windows could not complete for formatting? Honestly, I used Google to search for the error problems related unable to complete the format windows and also asks me to select a formatting program? What you recommend me? This software is useful for my case? Thanks for any suggestions here!

  Hello

  If you have a mac, you can use a utility called disk pre-installed program. Connect your external DRIVE for mac drive and find an application called disk utility, in disk utility, there should be an option to erase the external HARD drive. It may come with an error similar to what you had before, but it's certainly worth a try. Let me know if this worked for you.

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• Using an external hard drive with Windows 7

  I soon moved to the States but won't my Pc for a while once there. I intend to take an external hard drive with me to use with your laptop, once arrived in the States. As the laptop will probably have Windows 7 preinstalled, I'll be able to use the data on my drive that came from a Windows XP Pro operating system. Data such as Word, doc, Excel, doc, internet web pages. I do not know the media items will be ok, but not sure about programs etc.

  slammpro

  Yes (assuming that the laptop has the necessary applications installed, such as Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel and everything you use for your media files or applications).

• oxC004F061. After replacing a failed hard drive, windows 7 do not allow me to activate. I had replaced a previous hard drive with window xp verson with this same program windows 7.

  Two years ago, that a virus killed my hard drive of windows xp.  Dell has replaced the hard drive as it was under warranty, but spoke to me by getting the upgrade to windows 7.  It was installed after that the new hard drive was put in and worked great until 3 weeks ago, when the hard drive is dead again. replaced the hard drive and put it in the installation discs but do not know where I was wrong.  It will not let me activate windows and gives me the code 0 x C004F061.  I'm short on time to enable any suggestions on what to do.

  See:

  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows7/Windows-7-activation-error-0xC004F061

  Have you tried to restart by phone?

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• External hard drive with Windows NT File System (NTFS) Format

  I bought an external hard drive Samsung M3 about a year (1 to). I used a lot for about 3 months on my mac and then left it stored until I need it again. I then tried to use it today and for some reason, the format converted to Windows NT (NTFS) file system. Looking at other forums, the only way to change what has been suggested is to erase and format it in NTFS for Mac. However, I have 500 GB of data on what I don't want to erase. Does anyone have any suggestions, or any reason that the format has changed all of a sudden, do my hard drive now ReadOnly cannot think?

  1. the format has not changed

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• Try to format my hard drive with windows xp installed.

  I went to cmd and on c:\ > I typed in format c: it came with the usual caveat. Continue the at I clicked on Y for Yes it came with the format cannot run because the format is used by another process. Format may run if this volume is dismounted first. All handles to this volume would then be invalid.
  You want to force a disassembly on this Volume? y (y/n)
  Cannot lock the drive. The volume is still in use.
  How to unlock the drive or do I have to purchase software that erases my own hd.

  On mon, 19 Sep 2010 19:27:56 + 0000, CurtisJG wrote:

  I went to cmd and on c:\ > I typed in format c: it came with the usual caveat. Continue the at I clicked on Y for Yes it came with the format cannot run because the format is used by another process. Format may run if this volume is dismounted first. All handles to this volume would then be invalid.
  You want to force a disassembly on this Volume? y (y/n)
  Cannot lock the drive. The volume is still in use.
  How to unlock the drive or do I have to purchase software that erases my own hd.

  You cannot format the drive Windows is installed on to in
  Windows. It's like sawing the branch of a tree, you are sitting
  on.

  What is your purpose here? You want to reinstall Windows properly?

  If so, just boot from the Windows CD (any version) and follow the
  guests for a clean install; the installation will begin by
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• format hard drive for windows and larger files, TV supports

  Hello

  pls suggest me with the solution to the following problem.

  I need to know what format of hard drive works with mac, windows, & TV too, even for large files and quality bluray movies

  FAT32 only supports files up to a maximum size of 4 GB, which would be certainly much too small for Blu - Ray quality media.

  exFAT supports files of unlimited size effectively, Mac and Windows can read and write to exFAT to format external drives but neither can boot from such a unit. If a TV or other system supports exFAT drives, you need to check yourself formatted.

  NTFS supports files of unlimited size indeed, Mac can only read NTFS, it cannot format or write to NTFS, unless you get an add-on. Of course Windows supports NTFS. Again, you will need to check if your TV etc supports NTFS. If you want to add full support for NTFS to a Mac, I recommend this - https://www.paragon-software.com/home/ntfs-mac/

  HFS + is the current format of Apple and new supports files of unlimited size effectively. Mac can of course read, write and format disks. Does not support the Windows as a standard HFS +, but still, you can buy an add-on for Windows Add this feature. It is extremely unlikely that a TV would support HFS +. If you want to add full support for HFS + for Windows, take a look at this - http://www.mediafour.com/software/macdrive/

  There are also other formats of disc for example ZFS and BTRFS, Ext3, Ext4 and soon SATF, but in this case, they are not relevant.

  Note: as indicated above, in many cases, I said 'actually unlimited', it is of course a limit, but one so great that he will strike you not for individual files, including Blu - Ray or even files UltraHD (4 k).

• installation of old hard drive with windows Xp in a new Core I7 processor

  Don't want to format the hard drive and lose all programs and files.

  Besides the updates, there are two types of license and (excluding the Media Center) two versions of Windows XP.

  License types: OEM and retail

  Version types: Home and Professional

  Just because you have professional does not mean that it is not OEM.

  OEM licenses must have a certificate of authenticity with activation key stuck to the case somewhere commercial Versions have not an activation key sticker will accompany the installation media.

  Tricky

• Desktop HP Pavilion p6-2123: New Hard drive with Windows 7 but cannot get online... need adapter... network error 0 x code 80070017

  I installed a new hard drive and clean installed Windows 7 from a dvd, so I could then install Windows 10 from a record since the upgrade on my pc failed repeatedly.

  After I installed 7, everything worked except that I can't go online. I get error code 0 x 80070017 that tells me to install a network adapter or reinstall a driver. My internet connection in our House work that my husband is able to get online. We have Verizon DSL internet via a network cable.

  My husband downloaded the necessary driver for my pc to a website of HP flash drive, but it Wouln't install/run on my pc.

  Thank you for your help.

  At any time.

  I am pleased to have been of assistance.

  If you still have problems with the flash player and this file, the only other suggestion I can offer would be to burn the file to a CD and run the executable file I've first validated from the CD or transfer the 2nd file I posted from the CD to the hard drive, or find the driver on the CD folder.

• HP Probook 4520 s installed new hard drive with Windows 7 pro x 64 and drivers - very lag

  Hello

  I had my HP Probook 4520 s for 5 years and a few months ago, he started to become very lag, especially when you use the internet, streaming video and games.

  I thought I had identified the problem as a bad sector on the hard drive and so I bought a new hard drive and upgraded the RAM from 4 GB to 8 GB at the same time.

  When I installed the new hard drive, I couldn't burn an image of my old hard drive (it would stop during the process and was unable to do so because of an error). I used my little HP Windows 7 Pro x 64 operating system DVD and your HP Application and Driver Recovery DVD to install the necessary drivers on my replacement new drive.

  The RAM and the new hard drive seem to be good, however, it's more lag. I tried to use latancy monitors to see if the drivers are the issue. It seems that there is a huge amount of latancy and my CPU is at an almost constant usuage of 100%.

  LatancyMon points in the following drivers: usbport.sys, tcip.sys, acpi.sys, iastor.sys, ndis.sys, dxgkrnl.sys and so on.

  I've seen forums where they will guide you step by step how to determine what drivers are causing latancy. This I could do although he always seems to change drivers who are the cause of the problem and there seems to be a lot of pilots of causing this problem it is so difficult to bring out here that one. In addition, there seems to be no solution to these problems. The only one offered is to update the offending drivers. This does not solve the problem with lag and the latancy yet.

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  Hello skinandbones13

  Thanks for posting on the HP Forums!

  I understand that you have a problem with your laptop. However, since it is a commercial laptop, you should post your question on the map cell of the HP Enterprise Forums for a better answer.

  Have a wonderful day!

  Mario

• I don't see the photos on my external hard drive with windows Vista Home Basic

  Hello

  I bought an external hard drive Sansung to save all my music, but when one copy all my external music files hard drive thumbnails disappears. I uncheck the "always show icons, never thumbnails" in folder options, I tried large icons on display options, I even checked "display thumbnails instead of icons" on the Visual effects tab in the Panel of the Performance in Advanced system settings. ' " Prevented, Windows Vista is not able to see the photos in my external hard drive.
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  1. click Start allprograms,Accessories, System Tools folder and Disk Cleanup
  
  2 check the photos and click OK.
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  3 click delete files button on the confirmation window.

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