Qosmio G20: password asked after formatting my HARD drive

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  I'm going through a gateway with xp adding purched proessional xp home. The hard drive has been formatted before the upgrade.  When I get the xp professional product key I get an error message indicating the product key is not valid.  The product key, as I enter corresponds to the product key in the business directory to the i386/unatended.txt xp CD.

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  Steve

  * original title - family xp to xp pro upgrade *.

  Hi SteveConley,

  1. have you fully formatted the hard drive?

  2. what type of Windows XP Professional CD? It of an upgrade or clean installation CD?

  As you have formatted the hard disk, you can perform a clean install will impose you an operating system available on the computer to perform an installation upgrade.

  You cannot use the upgrade product key to perform a clean installation.

• How to recover the Windows operating system to factory settings after formatting the hard drive?

  * Original title: lost the original os pack

  I formatted my hard drive due to virus attack. so my original os is also lost in formatting.now im using, with windows 8 form, a service on the local computer, it is possible to recover my system to the scene when I bought it.

  Monday, December 21, 2015 11:13:36 + 0000, vishwanathragunath [Insider]
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  I formatted my hard drive due to virus attack.

  Why? It is almost never necessary. A good anti-virus program can almost
  always remove the infection. And often leads to problems with formatting
  as you have discovered. Even if you have no problems, it creates a lot
  work for you.

  so my original os is also lost in formatting.now im using, with windows 8 form, a service on the local computer, it is possible to recover my system to the scene when I bought it.

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• Qosmio G20 - XP doesn't see second HARD drive, but the BIOS is

  Hello

  Mylène for the long post - but think if give good info, I poss of correct answer:

  After the crash of QOSMIO G20... managed to reinstall of XP Recovery DVD-ROM. Immed after, looked at the config with Win Explorer and two hard drives all present and correct. even copied a picture of my images on the D: drive, just to make sure that all aok.

  Then downloaded SP3 and tried to install - it reported failure and then shut down the PC. After attempts to get again - until finally resorted to reuse the Recovery DVD-ROM.
  Come back XP again - but now, while the BIOS sees two hard drives (reports size, Fab details, etc.), as far as Windows is concerned, it does not exist.

  Tried to initialize in disk management - no sign there.
  He was then released, put it in a shopping cart, connected to the office and initialized and formatted - then returned to mobile... zilch!

  Your kind suggestions and recommendations could save just the remaining strands terrified of hair of a violent end...

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  Logis

  Hello House,

  Normally, if the BIOS recognizes the HARD drive, but not Windows, this means that the HARD disk is not formatted, but it must be visible under the Windows disk management.
  You see it now?

  If not it is not easy to say what the reason are you should try load default settings in the BIOS and save it. Then start Windows and check if HDD is visible there too.

  In the worst case, it s that a malfunction of the HARD disk controller, but what you can test if swap you the two drives and put them in another location.

• Qosmio G20-139: need help with 2nd HARD drive installation

  Hey fans of tosh.

  I got a Qosmio G20-139 and I want to install 2nd HARD drive. How can I go about it? I don't want to mirror the 1st HARD drive I just that it runs as a HDD separated for more storage. How do I set up and format?

  I'm using WXP MCE any help received with gratitude, keep in mind, I'm no expert actually I'm a fool to the village that of been inbreeding so take me through in easy to understand steps that even I can follow.

  Cheers in anticipation

  StevieB

  Hello

  That s just to change the BIOS settings in the BIOS!
  I think that the BIOS settings are placed in the last page of the BIOS (3).

  Try setting the 1RAID-0 on the first HARD disk and the 2RAID-0 the second HARD disk.

  It worked well on my laptop.

  By the way; information on the RAID configuration found in the user manual.

  Have a nice day ;)

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  After you have lost your product key shrinks your methods

  key finder programs won't asssit you if it is preinstalled

  Here are the different ways let you reinstall vista;

  Contact the manufacturer of the laptop computer and ask them to send you to vista recovery disks to reinstall the operating system back as it was when you bought it

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• Disk utility finds several files and folders after formatting external hard drive

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  Hello Bogdan,

  Welcome to the Microsoft community forums. Let me help you with your concern.

  Since you are using computer OEM (Lenovo). I suggest you to contact Lenovo support to clean install Windows 7. OEM keys work with the OEM CD.  It works with a generic "unbranded" CD OEM and not a retail CD.

  http://support.Lenovo.com/us/en/SelectProduct

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  Please see the categories below to get answers to frequently asked questions about licensing system builder OEM.
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  http://support.Lenovo.com/us/en/documents/ht082376

  http://support.Lenovo.com/us/en/documents/ht082396

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  Hello

  You don't say where you got the OEM Windows 7 license of.

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• Why am I being asked to format my hard drives?

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• Impossible to reinstall Photoshop Elements 10/Premiere elements 10 after formatting my hard drive!

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• Where can I get the Toshiba Tecra A9 for tools after formatting the HARD drive?

  Hello.
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  There is a "hidden partition", but if I use it to recover it installs all tools and software.
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  Hello

  > Fortunately, there was a DVD of Vista Business in the area. So I would use that one.

  It's very strange because I know Toshiba laptops are supplied only with the Toshiba Recovery CD and not an original CD of Microsoft Vista.
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  Good bye

• Qosmio G20: How to format the HARD drive?

  Hello!

  I bought Qosmio G20 last week and now I want to install Windows XP MCE (not recovery, but a CD in Windows XP CD) on this subject but I have a problem formatting of hard drives. There are two hard disks, and when I try to put in the form of Win 98 it is said as "formatting is not supported on C:" or "formatting is not supported on D:". I want to do before installing new windows because I want to create multiple partitions, but to do that I need to format the disc first.

  Can someone tell me what I need to do to format discs in this way?

  Hello

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  Hello. I have a computer bought from a friend with windows vista home premium installed. I want to format my hard drive to start over but I do not have the windows installation disc. How can I reinstall the pack without the disks after I cleaned the system? Thank you, Kim

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