jacamo

Thank you have sorted it now

I have just installed a new samsung 840 series 24gb SSD i have formatted it and it is now showing in the bios and the systembut when I try to install windows 7 ultimate by means of a partition copy,it wont boot even when i make it the first in boot order in the bios,can you tell me what I am doing wrong?, I used samsung magician to copy to it,and now they say use norton ghost which I have now downloaded but not tried yet,I will wait to hear from you as you have helped me in the past. :confused:

Thanks jellybean that sorted it much appreciated.:D

A friend brought a pc round and asked me to format it for him and reinstall windows xp sp3 on so I said yes ,I inserted my xp disk and formatted his hard drive but as it was starting to install xp we had a powercut for about ten minutes when the power came back on I thought just carry on were it left off so i started the pc again now all i get is, it starts to boot and a message comes up NTLDR is missing press f1 to retry or f2 for system setup the pc is a Dell optiplex gx280 ,3gb ram.intel 4 dualcore 2800 any help would be greatly appreciated

I have tried resetting bios to default and have updated the bios to the latest one,still same it takes forever to boot, only one sata hardrive and its only 3 month old

No there are no error messages,I suppose if i left it alone it would boot after some time had gone by like I usually switch it on in a morning and sometimes go make myself a cuppa and as i return with my tea it is loading so it takes ten mins or so to boot.most times i get fed up off waiting I press f8 for boot menu and boot that way and that takes sometime to work too.and sorry I have no idea why this is happening "no just cause I know off"I have defragged scan for trojans malware and viruses = nothing .It's baffling me .

Hi I am running widows xp home with sp2,amd athlon x2 dual core 5600+ 2.91ghz, 3gig ddr2 ram.My problem is just recently it has started to fail at the first boot screen, to get it to boot I have to press f8 and go throught the boot menu select the drive and it boots that way,I am totally thick when it comes to technical stuff, I can build them and use them but that is it. Any help you could give me would be greatly appreciated.:confused::confused:

I have Avast free version and I connect via vigimedia cable broadband i have tried without avast running and it still lags i have also minimised my clutter defragged my drives got rid off games and other progs i am not needing and still I lag.:confused:

ok played command and conquer and it played fine so it is only online it lags or freezes .

i will try now and get back to you .

Only online games cos there the only ones I play.:confused:

Firstly I have a 10mb connection through Virginmedia broadband,I am using windows xp Home sp3,amd 64x2 dual core 5600 @2.9ghz, 5 gig of ram, nvidia 8800gts gpu,2x 200gb harddrives,my problem is while online gaming I suffer from lag or freezing up constantly is there anything I can do to stop this .my friend runs a slightly similar system to me on a 1mb BT connection and doesn't lag on the same games,I built this system myself and being a total noob when it comes to tech, I was wondering if I haven't set something up right,I only have problems gaming though not downloading, I can get upto a 3mb download sometimes. :confused::confused:

It is ok guys, I have given the guy his pc back and got a refund of my money, so now it is his problem. Thank you all for your time and effort it is appreciated and keep up the great work.By the way I did reformat it so he doesn't have my windows on it.

Yes i have formatted and reinstalled a windows xphome oem version,and no it is not installed on any other pc and yes it is a legal copy and registered.and yes I have installed it correctly.

yes i have installed the legal windowsxp home and it is still the same.any ideas please.