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• When installing a new operating system isn't automatically wipe the hard disk, create a new partition, and then install the operating system?

  Have a Dell system, caught a virus and it has really messed up the PC. Recently, it got worse so I tried to reinstall the operating system with the Dell disks. It wouldn't work. So I bought for Windows 7 Professional, it will not be installed. My first question when installing a new operating system isn't automatically wipe the hard disk, create a new partition, and then install the operating system? Because this does the same as the Dell disks, is to take what is on the hard drive and put it in a folder called windows old, is not formatting the HD. When I boot the disk, it shows the installation of files then open windows and start the installation. Before he could finish I get an error missing or corrupted files. Tried several times now, windows will still not open. Any suggestions? Once while trying to install the pc crashed with a blue screen which is one of the reasons why I have reinstall the OS, he started to plant a few times. I don't remember all the details on my PC, but its 4 years, triple core coprocessors, ram 8 GB, 500 GB HD. At the same time just after all this started in Jan. I had also improved my 3 GB to 8 GB memory. I bought the Dell memory for my system. Since the crash, could there be a problem with these new memory chips? Last night I tried to disassemble each and reinstalling it, but that doesn't seem to make a difference. Before I tried to reinstall the operating system, the pc was see the concert 8.

  Original title: used to install Windows 7

  Disconnect any other (additional) internal hard drives and external USB devices.
  Look for any loose hard drive power or cables SATA, graphics card or other power cables.

  First run Memtest86 +:
  It runs from a floppy disk or CD and should eliminate or confirm if one or more of your memory
  sticks are bad or the values of the SPD in the BIOS are correct.
  Let it run for as long as you can: 2,4,6,8 or several hours (at least 3 full passes), so no errors at that time then your ram is OK.
  http://www.memtest.org/
  Memtest86 + Guide/How To (use the.) ISO to create a bootable CD)
  http://www.overclockers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=409152

  Hard drive test:
  If you do not know your readers of the brand and model, try "Speccy",.
  It provides information from the computer/system in detail:
  OS, CPU, RAM, motherboard, graphics, Hard Drive, optical, Audio, peripherals, network.
  Note: Option RAM indicates number of slots, DRAM Timing.
  Works your memory speed (frequency). The nominal frequency of your memory.
  http://www.Piriform.com/Speccy

  Test your player - create a Bootable CD:
  Ranging from 5 to 25% (depending on the make and model) new hard disks are defective.
  Note: Reliability of the drive hard has come the way down over the last 24 months and improved a bit lately according to manufacturing.

  Test your drive with the car manufacture utility.
  If you have a new hard drive Seagate the very next thing would be to download Seagate Seatools
  (bootable CD) and check bad sectors.
  SeaTools for information: http://www.seagate.com/support/downloads/seatools/
  SeaTools for Windows download: http://www.seagate.com/support/internal-hard-drives/enterprise-hard-drives/saturn/seatools-win-master/
  SeaTools for DOS download:
  http://www.Seagate.com/support/internal-hard-drives/consumer-electronics/LD25-series/SeaTools-DOS-master/

  For Western Digital readers to download the .iso from WdDiag file: http://support.wdc.com/product/download.asp?groupid=611&sid=30&lang=en

  Samsung Estool: http://www.samsung.com/global/business/hdd/support/utilities/ES_Tool.html
  Samsung Disk Manager software: http://www.samsung.com/Products/HardDiskDrive/utilities/shdiag.htm

  Hitachi Drive Fitness Test Software: http://www.hgst.com/hdd/support/download.htm#DFT
  Diagnostic tool available for use by customers who believe that having a brand Toshiba Fujitsu hard drive:
  http://SDD.Toshiba.com/main.aspx?path=ServicesandSupport/WarrantySupport/SoftwareUtilities

  Notice of Fujitsu drive management utility: http://www.fujitsu.com/us/services/computing/storage/hdd/

  Toshiba CD bootable: (BACK Diagnostic Tool version 7.0 for IDE/ATA/SATA hard disks)
  http://SDD.Toshiba.com/main.aspx?path=ServicesSupport/FujitsuDrivesUSandCanada/SoftwareUtilities#diagnostic

  Also check Home Edition free Partition Wizard option "Test of disc surface":
  http://www.partitionwizard.com/free-partition-manager.html

  J W Stuart: http://www.pagestart.com

• Difference between the boot disk volume and boot drive

  in disk utility, which is the boot drive and boot boot disk volume? I am follosing instructions to restart my Mac into recovery mode and the instructions tell you to:

  "1. restart your Mac and hold command + R to start to enter in Recovery Mode."

  2. open disk utility in the OS X Tools window.

  3. Select your boot drive and the boot disk in the sidebar.

  4. click on the button "Repair disk" utility disk in the first aid tab.

  After you perform these routines to correct the partition scheme of your disk and formatting, use disk utility to perform a permissions set on your boot volume (this is in the same first aid tab). Then turn off your Mac (do not restart it) and perform a reset SMC (see here) and reset PRAM (see here) for good measure. »

  That's what I see in my disk utility:

  

  Which of these is the boot drive and boot boot disk volume?

  The boot drive is the entrance 320,07 GB. Disk and volume are the two Macintosh HD.

  (137930)

• no boot found device, insert the boot disk and press any key

  Hello, recently tried to install Windows 10 through the Assistant Boot Camp, with the help of a DVD I bought windows. But I get an error saying "no devices found Boot insert boot disk and press a key" I tried to read and do all the patches, all offer and yet no results. Any suggestions or corrections us would be great!

  MacBook Pro mid 2012

  -i7

  Evo - Samsung 500GB SSD

  -Ram 16

  -Latest version of Mac OS x

  -L' use of 64 GB PNY flash drive

  Your Mac 2012 supported creating a USB Installer to help BC Assistant. Do not use a DVD, a USB Flash drive. Your USB drive must be a USB2 flash drive, if you choose the USB mode and you will need a Windows ISO.

  See also create an ISO image for Windows - Apple Support installation media Boot Camp .

• Satellite L300D-222: "insert the boot disk and press any key".

  Hello

  My laptop froze this morning and so I stopped it when restarting it however, I received the message "No boot device - insert boot disk and press any key", what it means?

  I didn't not get discs with the laptop, or have I made the recovery discs. The instruction manual says to press f8 when I restart and go to "menu of advanced start", but it doesn't matter. Where should I go from here, is there a program I can download that would have this disc? All my work on the computer will be lost?

  Thanks in advance for any help!

  Hello

  He looks at the HARD drive died and so the laptop can not boot from the HARD drive but request disk bootable.
  But to be sure, you need to access the BIOS (press F2) and check if the HARD drive is recognized in the BIOS.
  If it s not recognized, then you need a new HARD drive.

  The recovery disc can be ordered here:
  https://backupmedia.Toshiba.EU/landing.aspx

  Good bye

• My SSD is not appear in the menu on the boot disk (macbook pro 2012)

  Hello world.  So I just got the macbook pro 2012 and starts to do-it-yourself work last night.  I took out the optical drive, transferred the existing location HARD disk (w / caddy) and installed an SSD in its place.  Then I cloned the SSD HARD drive.  No problems so far.

  When I went to change the boot drive startup disk preferences is where I ran into a problem.  My original HARD drive is the only projection.  I had the problem in choosing the boot drive during the reboot (the SSD will appear in this menu) and makes it the default value it.  SSD works very well and is now my main boot drive.  However, I still would like to show in startup disk preferences.  Is it possible to do (preferably without erasing the SSD)?

  Thank you!

  Relevant info - I'm running El Capitan and I used SuperDuper! to clone the HARD disk.

  OK, can I have found the problem.  Map of partition of the SSD has been MBR, no GUID.  I deleted it, reformatted and I am re-cloning it now.  I'll post the result (I hope that as a confirmed for another solution which meets with this).

• Initialization failed: couldn't read the boot disk - Acer C720

  Hey guys,.

  I really hope you guys can help me. -So I got an Acer C720 and using one of the probably hundreds of tutorials out there, I upgraded the SSD inside. I bought the recommended (MyDigitalSSD SC2 Super Cache 2 42mm SATA III 6 G m2 NGFF M2 SSD Solid State Drive (64 GB)). Anyway, the computer froze today so I pressed and held the power button until it stops.

  When I turned it back on I was greeted with the warning. "Initialization failed: couldn't read the startup disk ' ideas? I have a few documents on this subject that I really need back. I put the original SSD inside and it booted up fine, but it won't start using the cotyledon. It's barely 8 months! Any ideas on what I can do? Thank you!

  Contact Acer for warranty repair. http://us.Acer.com/AC/en/us/content/service

• Create the boot disk

  I have a laptop ACER Aspire 5150, running Windows vista.  I want to exchange the disc for a hard drive over but cannot transfer the data that there is not enough space on the current drive.  I have not received a disc with my pc and I would like to reinstall windows back to the factory settings or create boot diskettes so that I can install the new hard drive.  I can do either?  which would be best?

  In addition to the info below, disk manufacturers hard software power of cloning to do what you want to do.

  Buy Acer recovery disks, or create your own.
  How to request to Acer for.

  How to get Vista recovery Media and/or to use the Vista recovery Partition on your computer.

  There is no Vista free download legal available.

  https://secure.TX.Acer.com/rcdb/main.aspx?brand=Acer

  Contact your computer manufacturer and ask them to send a recovery disk/s Vista set.

  Normally, they do this for a cost of $ small.

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  http://support.Acer.com/

  You can also make recovery disk/s of the recovery Partition before you delete it.

  They will tell you how to do this.

   

  Every computer manufacturer has their way of doing recovery disk/s.

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  Or borrow a good Microsoft Vista DVD (not Dell, HP, etc).
  A good Vista DVD contains all versions of Vista.
  The product key determines which version of Vista is installed.

  There are 2 disks of Vista: one for 32-bit operating system, and one for 64-bit operating system.

  If install a cleaning is required with a good DVD of Vista (not HP, Dell recovery disks):

  Go to your Bios/Setup, or the Boot Menu at startup and change the Boot order to make the DVD/CD drive 1st in the boot order, then reboot with the disk in the drive.

  At the startup/power on you should see at the bottom of the screen either F2 or DELETE, go to Setup/Bios or F12 for the Boot Menu

  http://support.Microsoft.com/default.aspx/KB/918884

  MS advice on the conduct of clean install.

  http://www.theeldergeekvista.com/vista_clean_installation.htm

  A tutorial on the use of a clean install

  http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/winvista_install_03.asp

  Super Guide Windows Vista Installation

  After installation > go to the website of the manufacturer of your computer/notebook > drivers and downloads Section > key in your model number > get latest Vista drivers for it > download/install them.

  Save all data, because it will be lost during a clean installation.

  See you soon.

  Mick Murphy - Microsoft partner

• try to get the Boot Disk Defragmenter.

  I begin of choice of tools system Disc Defrag regularly or to administer mode get User Account Control nothings happens.  I tried my right click computer properties, tools, defragment and once again nothing. Family Vista premium, all updates are current and all drivers are up to date. There is a new recall defrag was working fine before the update of windows. Updated driver occurred after problems to start defragmentation.

  Windows disk defragmentation must be performed by calendar. You shouldn't have to run it manually, not to mention that it takes forever to complete if you run manually.
  Once fixed, the Windows Disk Defragmenter is designed to run silently in full. You won't see her progress.
  Here is a tutorial to show how your disk defrag schedule.
  http://www.howtogeek.com/HOWTO/Windows-Vista/configure-disk-defragmenter-schedule-in-Windows-Vista/

  If you're dead set to run manually and monitor progress, I recommend Augslogics.
  It allows you to decide which drive to defragment.
  It shows you the process, "play by play".
  It gives you a summary report.
  Augslogics link:
  http://download.CNET.com/Auslogics-Disk-Defrag/3000-2094_4-10567503.html For the benefits of others looking for answers, please mark as answer suggestion if it solves your problem.

• Size of the boot disk is full

  I deleted all my VMs and the startup disk is always full. Help?

  YoungJ97 wrote: well, I tried to install a Windows XP MCE and the size of the disk was, get this, 40 GB. That's why I asked.

  This is the default size of a virtual hard disk of Windows XP and it can be changed if you want and does not directly address the host disk space however it relates it indirectly we should ensure far enough host disk space is available for what we're doing.  BTW, if this is what prompted your OP then you should have read this in the op and it would have spared you jump in a still reasonable different tangent on my part!

  BTW just an info... Windows XP MCE is not officially taken in charge and in the past, others have had problems with it in the sense not all MCE components work of course YMMV.

• Cannot find the boot disk

  End 2012 17 "iMac with 1.12 GB Drive El Capitan Fusion running.  When I turn on the iMac, I get a black screen with white text that tells me to insert the bootable disc.  If I press the Option key while powering and I select the Macintosh computer hard drive starts very well.  Any ideas what is happening or what I need to do to solve the problem?

  Sounds like something crashed. See if you can boot to the recovery (command-R on startup) Partition and select disk utility and then run First aid. If you cannot start the recovery partition, chances are that the player broke down.

• Photo library takes more space on an external drive on the boot disk.

  All of my library of Photos takes about 370 GB of space on the disc to start my computer, but when I moved it to an external, the entire group is about 670 GB. While not an immediate concern, I would like to know why there is that much of a size difference.

  Hard to say since you provide nothing except a problem - a wild guess is that you migrated from iPhoto and moved to the library of Photos for the EHD breaking hard links which allowed them to share the same original and previews ( Photos saves disk space to share images with your iPhoto or Aperture - Apple Support libraries ) and iPhoto - if it's that time they each need their copy doubling storage needs

  LN

• Acer Aspire E1 471 does not start. "no boot device, insert the boot disk and press any key".

  Acer Aspire E1 471. 8 64-bit Windows.

  It does not seem to recognize any boot device.

  Already tried:

  -F2 for configuration of the bios F9 to restore the default settings, F10 to save and exit and restart.

  -boot from usb, dvd... the screen turns black after the screening.

  -forcing safe mode or windows recovery screen (System Restore, auto repair, cmd, etc) the screen goes black, too and after about 20 minutes. the blue screen with the unhappy face appears (pc must be restarted)

  Any suggestions?

  Hi FerminSampo,

  We will try to repair the startup entries, I suggest you follow these steps and try to solve the problem of Windows 8 start.

  a. starting from hirens CD.

  b. try these commands from the command prompt.

  Bootrec /fixmbr

  Bootrec /fixboot

  Bootrec /rebuildbcd

  c. restart the computer and check if the problem persists.

• Boot Camp windows 7 is grayed out and the boot disk doesn't have enough space to be partitioned

  

  Please make a video to youtube or something!

  I don't delete records or any of that stuff!

  You need to create enough disk space to enable partitioning.

• NO BOOT DEVICE - PLEASE INSERT the STARTUP DISK AND press a KEY ANY * please help *.

  I have a Compaq CQ-50 that worked very well. It has been upgraded to winows 7 Bonus a year ago. This is the message I get when I press the power button

  NO BOOT DEVICE - PLEASE INSERT THE BOOT DISK AND PRESS ANY KEY

  any help would appreciated more than you know

  Hello

  Have you tried to reinstall the hard drive if yes. Then the drive is bad & who has need of a replacement.

  If your laptop is still under warranty, contact HP and arrange for the disc replaced.

  If you are out of warranty and would like a guide to replacing the hard drive yourself, let me know.