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  Hi dynamitenews

   

  1. are you able to boot to the desktop?
  2. what happens when you try to start the computer?

   

  You must have the DVD drive to start the computer using the disk, you cannot use the external hard drive to do the same thing.

  Also I suggest you to make sure you have defined the start as CD/DVD-Rom as the first choice option in the BIOS. See below the help link-
  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows7/BIOS-frequently-asked-questions

  If nothing is done, then you can contact the manufacturer support for assistance on setting up the correct boot sequence and check.
  
  BIOS WARNING-
  Change (CMOS) BIOS/complementary metal oxide semiconductor settings can cause serious problems that may prevent your computer from starting properly. Microsoft cannot guarantee that problems resulting from the configuration of the BIOS/CMOS settings can be solved. Changes to settings are at your own risk.

   

  I hope this helps.

• The installer of Windows and Vista Service Pack 2: Windows Installer is no longer upates for new programs

  original title: the installer of Windows and Vista Service Pack 2

  Since the installation of Vista Service Pack 2 Setup Windows continued to upgrade facilities and new programs.

  RegEdit settings seem to be OK.

  That's happened?

  I had the same problems you encounter while I was trying to install Skype.  I found this solution and it worked.  Thought it might help you.

  Copy the text below and save it in a notebook in your office. Then rename the fix.reg file. Double click on it and click Yes when you are prompted. Restart the computer.

  ---------------------

  Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

  [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\msiserver]

  'DisplayName"="@%SystemRoot%\\system32\\msimsg.dll,-27 '.

  "ImagePath" = hex (2): 25, 00, 73, 00, 79, 00, 73, 00, 74, 00, 65, 00, 6 d, 00, 72, 00, 6f, 00, 6f, 00,------.

  74,00,25,00 5 C 00, 73, 00, 79, 00, 73, 00, 74, 00, 65, 00, 6 D, 00, 33, 00, 32, 00, 5 C, 00, 6 D,------.

  00,73,00,69,00,65,00,78,00,65,00,63,00,20,00, 2f, 56, 00, 00, 00, 00

  'Description"="@%SystemRoot%\\system32\\msimsg.dll,-32 '.

  "LocalSystem ObjectName"=""

  "ErrorControl" = DWORD: 00000001

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  00,69,00 6 C 00, 65, 00, 67, 00, 65, 00, 00, 00, 53, 00, 65, 00, 43, 00, 72, 00, 65, 00, 61, 00,------.

  74,00,65,00,50,00,61,00,67,00,65,00,66,00,69,00, 6 C, 00, 65, 00, 50, 00, 72, 00, 69,--------.

  00,76,00,69,00 6 c 00, 65, 00, 67, 00, 65, 00, 00, 00, 53, 00, 65, 00, 4 c, 00, 6f 00, 63, 00,------.

  6B, 00, 4 d, 00, 65, 00, 6 d, 00, 6f, 00, 72, 00, 79, 00, 50, 00, 72, 00, 69, 00, 76, 00, 69, 00, 6 c,

  00,65,00,67,00,65,00,00,00,53,00,65,00,49,00, 6F, 00, 63, 00, 72, 00, 65, 00, 61, 00,------.

  73,00,65,00,42,00,61,00,73,00,65,00,50,00,72,00,69,00, 6f, 00, 72, 00, 69, 00, 74,------.

  00,79,00,50,00,72,00,69,00,76,00,69,00 6 C 00, 65, 00, 67, 00, 65, 00, 00, 00, 53, 00,------.

  65,00,43,00,72,00,65,00,61,00,74,00,65,00,50,00,65,00,72,00, 6 d, 00, 61, 00, 6e,------.

  00,65,00, 6F, 00, 74, 00, 50, 00, 72, 00, 69, 00, 76, 00, 69, 00, 6 C, 00, 65, 00, 67, 00, 65, 00,------.

  00,00,53,00,65,00,41,00,75,00,64,00,69,00,74,00,50,00,72,00,69,00,76,00,69,------.

  00, 6 C, 00, 65, 00, 67, 00, 65, 00, 00, 00, 53, 00, 65, 00, 53, 00, 65, 00, 63, 00, 75, 00, 72, 00,------.

  69,00,74,00,79,00,50,00,72,00,69,00,76,00,69,00, 6 C, 00, 65, 00, 67, 00, 65, 00, 00,------.

  00,53,00,65,00,43,00,68,00,61,00, 6F, 00, 00, 65, 67, 00, 4F, 00, 6f, 00, 00, 69, 74, 00,------.

  66,00,79,00,50,00,72,00,69,00,76,00,69,00 6 C 00, 65, 00, 67, 00, 65, 00, 00, 00, 53,------.

  00,65,00,50,00,72,00, 6f, 66, 00, 00, 69, 00, 6 c, 00, 65, 00, 53, 69, 00, 00, 6F, 00, 67, 00,------.

  6 c, 00, 65, 00, 50, 00, 72, 00, 6f, 00, 63, 00, 65, 00, 73, 00, 73, 00, 50, 00, 72, 00, 69, 00, 76,------.

  00,69,00, 6 C, 00, 65, 00, 67, 00, 65, 00, 00, 00, 53, 00, 65, 00, 49, 00, 6 D, 00, 00, 65, 70, 00,------.

  72,00,73,00, 6f, 00, 6F, 00, 61, 00, 74, 00, 65, 00, 50, 00, 72, 00, 69, 00, 76, 00, 69, 00, 6 c,

  00,65,00,67,00,65,00,00,00,53,00,65,00,43,00,72,00,65,00,61,00,74,00,65,00,------.

  47.00, 6 c, 00, 6f, 00, 62, 00, 61, 00, 6 c, 00, 50, 00, 72, 00, 69, 00, 76, 00, 69, 00, 6 c, 00, 65,.

  00,67,00,65,00,00,00,53,00,65,00,41,00,73,00,73,00,69,00,67,00, 6F, 00, 50, 00,------.

  72,00,69,00, 6 d, 00, 61, 00, 72, 00, 79, 00, 54, 00, 6f, 00, 6 b, 65, 00, 00, 6F, 00, 00, 50, 72,------.

  00,69,00,76,00,69,00 6 C 00, 65, 00, 67, 00, 65, 00, 00, 00, 53, 00, 65, 00, 52, 00, 65, 00,------.

  73,00,74,00, 6f, 00, 72, 00, 65, 50, 00, 00, 72, 00, 69, 00, 76, 00, 69, 00, 6 c, 00 65 00, 67,.

  00,65,00,00,00,53,00,65,00,49,00, 6F, 00, 63, 00, 72, 00, 65, 00, 61, 00, 73, 00, 65, 00,------.

  51,00,75,00, 6f, 00, 74, 00, 61, 50, 00, 00, 72, 00, 69, 00, 76, 00, 69, 00, 6 c, 00 65 00, 67,.

  00,65,00,00,00,53,00,65,00,53,00,68,00,75,00,74,00,64,00, 6f, 77, 00, 00, 6F, 00,------.

  50,00,72,00,69,00,76,00,69,00 6 C 00, 65, 00, 67, 00, 65, 00, 00, 00, 53, 00, 65, 00, 54,------.

  00,61,00, 6B, 00, 65, 00, 4f, 77, 00, 00, 6F, 00, 65, 72, 00, 00, 73, 00, 68, 00, 00, 69, 70, 00,------.

  50,00,72,00,69,00,76,00,69,00, 6 C, 00, 65, 00, 67, 00, 65, 00, 00, 00, 53, 00, 65, 00, 4 C,

  00, 6f, 00, 61, 00, 64, 00, 44, 00, 72, 00, 69, 00, 76, 00, 65, 00, 72, 00, 50, 00, 72, 00, 69, 00,------.

  76,00,69,00 6 C 00, 65, 00, 67, 00, 65, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00

  "FailureActions" = hex: 84, 03, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 03, 00, 00, 00, 14, 00, 00,------.

  00,01,00,00,00, c0, d4, 01, 00, 01, 00, 00, 00, e0, 93, 04, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00

  [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\msiserver\Enum]

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• No installation of Vista, no hard disk found, click on load a driver to provide a drover massstorage for installation

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  http://supportapj.Dell.com/support/topics/global.aspx/support/DSN/en/document?journalid=67E9C215C4BABD6CE040AE0AB5E14F05&docid=339949

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  http://supportapj.Dell.com/support/topics/global.aspx/support/DSN/en/document?journalid=67E9C215C4BABD6CE040AE0AB5E14F05&docid=336966

  And that way if you have a recovery partition on your hard drive.

  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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  I have a G30 - 182, Windows Vista 32-bit. An external HHD, DW 1 TB. Now 3 years and for some serious upgrade.

  I love the G30's big screen and very nice, as a photographer, I find the graphics excellent and accurate. One of the drawbacks is the primary HHD speed I can say. Performance index Windows says 4.2 which is totally unacceptable in 2010.

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  the steps you have mentioned are correct:

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  You must first reinstall Windows 7 Home Premium, reactivate and then rerun the upgrade to Windows 7 Professional can make sure that it is turned on.

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  How to pass Windows 7 to a bigger hard drive - Notebooks.com

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  then

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  Hello

  I was doing some courses on my computer until this window came on my screen and playback;
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  Computer manufacturers
   http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows/help/contact-support/computer-manufacturers

  Kind regards

• Windows 7 Pro repairs hard disk errors

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  Trevor Walsh

  Try to repair the Installation of Windows 7

  1. Insert the DVD of Windows 7 and restart your computer
  2 boot from the DVD.
  3. choose your language and click Next.
  4. click on repair your computer, select the operating system you want to repair.
  5. click on the link to repair list system in the System Recovery Options recovery tools.

  More information and a how to guide:
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  FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions from Installation Windows 7 & responses

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  Why this has proved & what should I do?

  Run the ChkDsk command to check the status of your HARD drive.
  Click Start
  Click computer
  Right-click on the drive in question and click Properties
  Select the tab "Tools".
  In the error-checking box, click .

  For more information-
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  There may be errors or bad sectors which Windows can fix, but if
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  If you get the new HARD disk, you can install a clean Windows
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  http://CrystalMark.info/software/CrystalDiskInfo/index-e.html/

  .

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  That is the problem.

  A friend with a Toshiba laptop (do not know the model right, but probably with win7 - 6 month old machine) has a problem with the internal hard drive.
  He crashed and his does not work.

  It has the toshiba recovery CD and an external hard drive.
  Is it possible for him to install win 7 on the external hard drive?

  (the easy medium woyld be buying a new in-house but for the next 2 months because of his work that it is impossible).

  Hello

  I don t think that it would be possible to install the Windows 7 external HARD disk.
  You should replace the internal HARD disk and should put the new HARD drive in the laptop.
  Then you should be able to install Windows 7 on the new HARD disc.

  Good luck

• HP TouchSmart 420 - 1000 t CTO: need help with the installation of windows on a new hard drive for HP TouchSmart 420-1000 t CTO (bought in 2012)

  My hard drive is failng in my computer I get the message that "the failure of hard drive" is imminent for several months now.  I did just recovery disks after I bought my computer and that you have ordered a new hard drive.

  I thought that the part of the setup of windows on a portion of the current hard disk that I need to replace.

  I want to just make sure that if I can restore the windows completely and that all programmes provided with the computer are on the recovery discs I want to do it myself - so I need to know I'm doing it correctly!

  Thank you very much.

  Kimberly

  PS I found this web page below and I want to just make sure that it applies to me:

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  This link in the post seems to apply to the situation.  If you have already completed the defined recovery disc then it should just be a matter of running the recovery disc after the new hard drive is installed.  The recovery disk set will be "restoring windows completely and all programs included with the computer".  Be aware that all other items that were installed or personal data will not be restored.  When replacing the hard drive, do not buy a disc exceeds the limit of 2 TB, such as published in the SPECS for TouchSmart 420-1000 t CTO.

• installation of windows xp/vista/7 on USB and then running windows FULL of her not ONLY START from USB

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• I'm upgrading from my hard drive. I will be able to move my current installation of Windows on a drive hard new without having to buy a new copy of Windows?

  move windows 7 on a new hard drive

  
  

  I have an oem version of windows 7 Home premium and I was thinking about adding a velociraptor to speed up my system, I would be able to switch from windows to a new hard drive without buying a new copy of windows and if yes, how I would do. all this would be on the same computer that I do not know if what counts.

  Norton Ghost version 15 - has a 30 day trial available
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  Acronis True Image 2010 - has a 30 day trial version available.
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  True Image Guide:
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  Acronis True Image Western Digital (WD) Edition (can support Windows 7)
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  http://www.Softpedia.com/get/system/back-up-and-recovery/Symantec-Norton-Ghost.shtml

  Acronis True Image Home 2010 product review:
  http://www.whatsabyte.com/P1/ATI_2010_Review.html

  Also copy disc to disc with Norton Ghost
  http://Service1.Symantec.com/support/PowerQuest.nsf/docid/2004111701520562?OpenDocument&src=hot&prod=Norton+Ghost&ver=10.0&CSM=no&SEG=HHO

  Untested free alternatives:
  Reflect disk imaging:
  http://www.Macrium.com/reflectfree.asp

  Paragon Backup & Recovery Free Edition:
  http://www.Paragon-Software.com/home/DB-Express/download.html

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