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• HP Envy 15t: 8.1 Windows Installer Clean in the hard drive model GPT without losing the RECOVERY partition

  Always I try to format my windows partition, I get the following error:

  Windows cannot be installed to this disk. The selected disk is the GPT partition style.

  So I'd like a clean install of Windows 8.1 without changing the style of hard drive or in bulk my RECOVERY partition.

  OBS.: I just can I perform boot after you disable UEFI and Secure Boot.

  @lucasc ,

  Hello and thanks for the display on the HP support forums.  You will not be able to do it without damaging the recovery partition.  If you want to do a fresh install on your system, use the system recovery.

  If this isn't the case, you will install the operating system of your choice.  So before you send that the laptop came with the operating system, and you supported drivers for the operating system you want to install.

  If this isn't the case, you will not be able to find in driver support and you end up with hardware problems.  The drivers are built for laptop based on the OS that it was released with and they are owners.

  I hope this helps.  Thanks again for posting and have a great day.

• Brand new dv6t - install Win 7 Ultimate Clean - error "no hard drive found."

  Just shot my new w dv6t quad edition / WSSD 32 GB out of the box. Goes for a clean format and install of Win 7 Ultimate. Once started from the bootable DVD, I get an error 'no drives were found. No disks/partitions won't show.

  When I start in the existing installation of Win 7 Home Premium and initialize the disc for installation of win 7, there will be readers... but I can not format or delete as a that I need to boot from the disk.

  Seems to me like a driver for the WSSD/HARD disk problem. If someone has encountered this? Any help is very appreciated.

  SOLVED.

  You must open the computer and physically remove the WSSD garbage 32 GB module and disconnect the HDD in RAID mode.  Basically, the computer to get rid of the disease and the setting not save as a standard HARD drive.

  AVOID AT ALL COSTS THIS OPTION!

• Help to new primary hard drive sounds: HP Pavilion 6620f PC

  I'm a non-technical guy who just replaced the main OEM 1 TB drive with a VelociRaptor 300 GB 10000 RPM hard drive. The installation went well, thanks to the fantastic instructions of the manual of HP and it works fine. Hard Disk Sentinel (free version) tells me that his condition is "perfect."

  Here's my question:

  • the new drive is intermittent but constant and subtle sounds and I don't remember hear them before.
  • Is there a problem or is it only a function of another type of hard drive?

  For any help or suggestion accepted with gratitude! I hope that I worry about anything, but do not have the technical expertise or experience to know!

  Thank you

  Linda

  Hi Linda,.

  Hard disks have different acoustic characteristics according to the manufacturers (and in overall models from the same manufacturer).  In addition, you went with a 1 TB of HARD drive that probably have a rotational speed of 5400 RPM on a faster drive.  If you are hearing just weak 'rattling', I think it's perfectly normal and given the utility disk HARD sees no problem with the drive, I would say that everything is fine.

  Best regards

  DP - K

• DV7-7333 CL. : need help formatting has replaced hard drive in my laptop

  Greetings,

  I received instructions from HP another volunteer on a bad hard drive replacement. I replaced the hard drive with a new and need someoe to please guide me how to format my new drive hard back to the WIN 10 I had installed on the former. I also buy a 22 pin adapter usb to SATA.

  Another agent said that Windows 10 can be reinstalled on a new drive hard if your installation has been activated before. The activation servers Microsoft just know your computer and will be reactive. You must Access the media creation tool and have it make a bootable DVD player or you need a usb thumb drive at least 4 GB.

  I am in Germany but still do not know the language well enough and could not find a tool for creating Windows Media version in English free repacement.

  I don't know what to do to format my new hard drive... Please help!

  Thank you.

  Wes

  PROBLEM SOLVED (FINALLY)! I just wanted you to know that we have finally understood why the data on the computer with the media to WIN creation tool not was not download on thumb drive = Firewall! Not sure if everyone will have this problem but in collaboration with Windows agent, I happened to see a pop-up window saying something on the analysis of data not allowing not to download. It is therefore sometimes necessary to temporarily disable all firewalls and Web titles before starting the download.

  Follow the instructions of man Las Vegas thread above to create a bootable USB Thumb Drive to replace newly hard drive with OS Windows 10. HOWEVER, the following was not mentioned in his instructions, and not all computers can do this extra step so keep the following in mind if your USB key does not complete the upload.

  Again, to download data, I downloaded on the work computer, a USB key, I had to we need to temporarily disable all the security features on the work computer until you have completed the download of the WIN Media Creation Tool on the thumb drive process (this includes your private web anti-virus, we can use AND/OR the WIN Firewall and other security features available on the led computer. )

  I hope this helps those who have similar problems.

  Thanks again for all your help man Las Vegas thread!

  Kind regards

  Wes

• HELP the T61p Swap hard drive Question - URGENT

  My T61p 6459-CTO went black screen. 1 long beep - 2 short beeps, I guess that the MOBO issue problems with Nvidia Chipset on that I read.

  So I wonder if I just take my hard drive out and put in it an operable T61p to close specifications would be that boot up and work like my old machine? Or I am a joke?

  How close the specs should be? Questions you plan?
  I need to get as forward as soon as possible.

  Any help is appreciated.

  Thank you

  Lee

  Welcome to the forum!

  You may need to day of a couple of drivers, but any T61/p or R61 will work fine as the drive.

  Good luck.

• I need help to retrieve my hard drive using the recovery of Neosmart disk (it takes days)

  To get a better perspective, I'll tell you the history of what has gone wrong.

  What happened is that the computer has a virus and it changed some coding on the computer. When this happened to that my computer wouldn't let me enter my account and the only account that I could go on was the administrator account. I tried on a few websites and the other microsoft Web sites told me to do something with the command userinit or something like that, which led to the black screen of death that I managed to fix it on my own.

  Another website told me to use the recovery disk but like a lot of people that I don't have a recovery disk, I only had a reinstallation disk that said I could fix the computer, but it would delete all hard disk that I didn't, I need the intact files because they are important to my family.

  Then I discovered on the recovery disk that you can buy from Neosmart.com and this disc is made like the original Vista recovery disk. Anyway I bought it and I clicked on "Automatic repair" and it comes up with 2 dives eligible for recovery (it says at the top) a player is 10 GB and the other is 288 GB (it says active is the 288 GB we) I clicked on repair automated on one of them, but I don't remember. Apparently fixed it (coding I guess) and I restarted but no consideration was there. He says "Please wait" for a long time, then it comes up with a single account that says "User" I click it and it says user name and password you will need to connect to a computer at school or something. I put my username and password anyway and it does not of course and it comes up with "the specified domain does not exist or could not be contacted.

  So, I went back on the recovery disk and I so I click on system restore to get my stuff back and I can put it on a previous date until the virus has arrived and I click on it, then it is said that his recovery, files, but just like that, I let him recover and he was recovering for 3 days before I came on this site and tried something but it did not work. Like I said before it is 288 GB so I guessed it would take a long time to recover only the amount of data, but it seems just silly.

  Could someone please help me with this with words that I can identify the disk recovery Neosmart.com please

  Important additional information

  I said before that I don't remember what I have fixed drive, the thing is that there might be I have set the wrong drive, but to be honest at this point, I feel like if I do a movement without knowing what it will do, im going to lose what's on that hard drive

  Important files are not for work, they are files containing family photos of many years we couldn't print on paper of good quality printing. There is no other copy of these pictures and I really want to keep them, even with my parents.

  The recovery of Neosmart disk contains the following options

  • Auto repair
  • Score editor
  • Browse/Backup of files
  • Internet browser
  • Launch the command line

  Within the Automated repair is where you can get the system restore. The others you can kind of guess, if you want to know so just ask.

  Help, please

  Thank you

  To recover the photos, you can remove the drive and it slave on another computer (you can get very cheap external envelopes) and remove your data (you have just learned an important lesson in why you need to have backups).

  Once you have saved your data, your best bet would probably be to reinstall. A good Web site for the removal of malicious software is that one.
  http://www.selectrealsecurity.com/malware-removal-Guide/

  Good luck!

• Reinstall Vista clean after replacing hard drive

  Hard drive crashed in my Acer Aspire 3680-2682. I replaced the hard drive with a larger HARD drive and did a clean reinstall of Vista Basic to my CD anytime upgrade. My computer did not come with recovery discs and the recovery partition of course disappeared as well.

  Can I use my same product key that is on my COST base sticker of Vista?

  If you want to reinstall Vista to how you purchased the computer, use the ORIGINAL product key that was on the computer to do.

  It was what was my original advice.

  Mick Murphy - Microsoft partner

• Need help to share a hard drive in vista

  How do you share a hard drive in Vista on a home network that the other network users can back up their music, photos, etc... I have 3 computers vista and and 4 Xp Pro on the network computers and all that I get a message saying "F:\ is not accessible. Access is denied. " CANY anyone help

  Hello

  The hard drive is missing on the permissions that are required.

  What are the permissions?

  Permissions are rules associated with objects on a computer or network, such as files and folders. Permissions determine whether you can access an object and what you can do with him. For example, you can access a document in a shared folder on a network but only be able to read the document and not to make changes. System administrators and users with accounts of administrator on computers can assign permissions to individual users or groups.

  To take possession of a hard drive.

  1. make a right click the hardrive / partition you want to take control and then click Properties.

  2. click on the Security tab, click Advanced, and then click the owner tab.

  3. click on modify. Need administrator permission if you are prompted for an administrator password or a confirmation, type the password or provide confirmation.

  4. click on the name of the person you want to give to the property.

  5. If you want this person to be the owner of the files and subfolders in this folder, select the Replace owner of subcontainers and objects to check.

  6. click on OK.

  For more information, see the article.

  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows-Vista/troubleshoot-access-denied-when-opening-files-or-folders

  Do us it if it can help

  Concerning
  Anthony.

• help with my lapi hard drive partitioning

  Model number - hp pavilion g6 2005ax

  operating system-Windows 7 Home Basic 64-bit

   

  Hi all

  I bought this laptop but it came with only 1 partition c: IE

  I want to partition the hard drive physically while incase I want to format and re install windows only the c: disk gets formatted and are always sure to have erased my data to other readers. I saw a lot of question-answers here, but most of them is in regards to logical partitions which obviously will erase all data, once the system I want not restored. I do not know the abcd to partition my hard drive... .Please help out me.

  I want to know in detail all the steps I have to follow from the beginning to the end. I know nothing abt how to create backup of recovery, drive on the road system tools and hp... Please can someone patiently explain the whole process to me...

  If you have 3 options in the Recovery Manager - System Recovery, minimized Image and factory settings - system recovery is 'supposed' only format the C: partition and leave the others alone. IF you don't have a single option_A System Recovery will return the disk hard back to the factory settings.

  Read here >http://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c01867418

• Need help with a new hard drive in pavillion wiring elite M9400

  Hello fellow owners HP,.

  I recently bought a 1 TB hard drive for my Pavilion Elite M9400T.  I done my share of reading about installing to a new hard drive to another former post office and know how to physically install the disk in the slot, but my question starts with the wiring.

  I have a M9400T and saw the video of the installation here in this post.  I read to the bottom when he talks about the installation of additional hard disks into the empty Bay and had questions about the son in photo 5 on the photo below. I realized that I needed a Sata cable, so I bought one today, but I wonder if I can use other cables inside the case already for power. And who will be all I have to do to get this properly installed disc? I took pictures so that it would be easier for me to ask for help.

  

  

  A and B belong to my main hard drive and I want to know if I can use D (unused but looks like B) and a Sata cable bought my 2nd hard drive. I also noticed that B is related to C, which leads to the motherboard, so I didn't know if I needed to do the same for the 2nd drive.

  

  Connectors SATA 1 and 6 are taken by my hard drive and DVD drive (I think) cannot so I just put my 2nd hard drive on one of the remaining of the caps of 2-5?

  Thanks in advance for any and all tips and suggestions.

  BTW, I I was able to install the sticks of memory 2x2gb today without any problems for a total of 6 GB today but no matter what slots? I added the 2 slots of the fan and it seems to work very well.

  SO, Yes, you can use power connector would be ' for your new hard drive.  If you look closely at the image of a ' and follow the Red wire, it runs directly on the white molex (P4) beside the PSU connector.  He doesn't have to go to the motherboard.  Is not feed all the other components.

  Message edited by old_geekster on 11/13/2009 10:50

• Windows help, bought a new hard drive, but how to get windows on it

  What I need to contact dell to obtain the installation disc, or I can download it and make my own drive for my model? I have the key of windows at the bottom of the laptop please help. Or can I use my Ctrl + F11 key with a new hard drive to restore.

  Thank you

  
  

• Help create the VM hard drive external

  Hello

  I am trying to create a virtual machine from a hard drive that was in my laptop.  It is a 80G drive and XP Media Edition installed with a recovery partition separate.  (Gateway)  I searched a few threads and continuum has a very useful post:

  Hello
  by far the simplest to do that involves a few steps

  support:
  do it on a computer that has the installed desktop - allows you to call this machine adminhost
  the portable hard drive is used inside a USB connected to this computer box

  Carefully follow them

  1. open the adminhost diskmanagement

  • find the usb drive and note that numero_disque uses it - say for example it uses disk3
    
  • Right-click on each partition and remove the driveletters are subsequently assigned
    

  2. open VMware Workstation as an administrator!

  • create a new virtual machine using option "I will install later.
    
  • Select Windows 7 guestOS
    
  • assign the same amount of RAM as the old laptop used to have
    
  • store the virtual machine in a path with enough free disk space - Let's E:\vms\laptop-import
    
  • When the virtual machine is created will NOT start
    
  • Remove the hard drive that has been created with the wizard
    
  • Add a new hard drive - select disk physical option and select the numero_disque looked you up in step 1
    
  • Select use "full disk" and save the vmdk as E:\vms\laptop-import\rawdisk.vmdk
    
  • do not start the virtual machine and close the station work
    

  3. open a cmd as administrator

  • CD in the WS install directory such as C:\programfiles\vmware\vmware-workstation
    
  • Enter vmware - vdiskmanager.exe - a help screen should be displayed
    
  • now type vmware - vdiskmanager.exe - r E:\vms\laptop-import\rawdisk.vmdk t 0 E:\vms\laptop-import\new.vmdk
    
  • a process of conversion should start now - let the finsih - this may take some time
    

  4. open my computer again

  • Open the virtual machine and modify virtual hardware
    
  • Delete rawdisk.vmdk and add new.vmdk instead
    
  • Start the virtual machine now
    

  5. look what he does at first start

  • disc read error, cursor blinking at the top left of the screen... This means that your case is trickiert what you said to us ;-)
    
  • BlueScreen 7B - good - all right - to setp 6.
    
  • the virtual machine starts completely - congratulations - you are a lucky guy and your laptop used an Intelchipset
    
    
    

  6 patch the drivers

  • start the converter 5 betaor a recent version of different
    
  • 'Configure the machine' Wizard and select the new virtual machine
  
  
• When the wizard has completed successfully, you are finished
  

7. If the converter does not... no problem - download or create a Windows 7 recovery CD and attach the vmx file to your next post

However, in step 3 during the conversion process it stops at 27% and gives an error.  I've attached a screenshot of it.

Thanks for any help!

Wow - this XP is not really to be converted.
It has set up a strong resistance ;-)

Converter is a not - we tried to any version.
Finally, I had to use a LiveCD MOA and install the vmscsi driver manually.

So at the end of the day, the virtual machine starts and we are facing by WoodyZ

• With the help of 2 external hard drives

  I want to connect 2 external hard drives (OWC Mercury Elite Pro) to my iMac.  I use one for the pictures and the other for the safeguarding of the iMac.  The two hard drives come with FireWire, USB 3 cable also.  Is it possible to connect the two leads one to the other with fireware, or do I need to connect one with firewire and other separately with USB? I would like to get the speed of firewire to both if possible.

  Thank you

  Martha Lyle

  Yes, you can connect in series up to 70 FireWire devices. Plug a drive in firewire on Mac port and the second in unoccupied left FW of the first drive.

• Portege R500-11Z: recovery disk to help prepare a new HARD drive

  I bought a new hard drive (SSD) for my R500-11Z and I put in an envelope with the USB cable before installation - I want to be able to format the drive and create a new copy of Windows XP before you get out of my existing hard drive.

  I'm looking for ways to use the recovery disk and it SEEMS that it should be possible... EXCEPT...

  I discovered that on the recovery disk there is an executable called recoUNPACK in the Tools folder, which should, in theory, restore the contents of the disc to the hard drive. However, because the new hard drive is plugged into my existing XP set up, he gets a folder called System Volume Information written in it. The presence of this file causes the recoUNPACK to fail. He gets, at 59%, every time, and then survey the error - System Volume Information already exists.

  Any person proposing the deletion of the folder should consider their knowledge of the XP - there is no way to do this, ask Mr. Google if you don't believe me. I also tried this with full of this folder write permissions so that, in theory, could replace recoUNPACK...

  I would be very grateful if someone knows a way of "forcing" crush the System Volume information folder or another way to 'restore' the recovery of my new hard drive disk (other that disassemble the laptop and substitute physically the disc!).

  I have reviewed various options for establishing a USB bootable drive, but as I will adapt it in my laptop I don't want running all versions of XP - so using the recovery disc supplied with my odd R500. All bootable USB I can find only programs, fat32 format, and I would stay in NTFS...

  And the reason why I want to do it this way, it is that I want to continue to use my existing hard drive until the news is ready - its supposed to be an effective way to work... but so far the time wasted, trying to restore the disks could have been better spent undoing the screws on the rear of the machine!

  Thanks in advance

  > However, because the new hard drive is plugged into my existing XP set up, he gets a folder called System Volume Information written in it. The presence of this file causes the recoUNPACK to fail. He gets, at 59%, every time and then lift the error - System Volume Information already exists

  Hmm the right path and the letter of the partition or volume entitled did you use?

  As far as I know that the command should show something like this:

  + recounpack.exe d:\imagename.tpa z: f +.

  (z: is the letter of your external USB drive and may be different in your case)