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Does the computer guy still have your system or do you have it Christine ?

Hi Chrissie and welcome to fpch can you answer a couple of questions was your system bought with vista already on if not do you have the disk ? secondly how important are the docs you need to acsess

Hi 2 quick questions firstly you said you have tried the CD on a different system , what was the Operating system ? , secondly when you upgraded from xp to 8 did you format the drive ? , what am thinking is when you upgrade operating systems windows creates a windows.old folder with all your documents pics etc in there you could use windows explorer and browse your C:/ to see if that folders exists and if it does delete it

I agree with Nev the answer to the first 3 is a resounding yes , now question 4 is a bit more difficult but I think you wouldn't need to take action as each os would see its assigned partition as C:/ so for example in xp you'd have your xp os as C:/ then the win 7 partition as say D:/ then your external as E:/ Data , then in win 7 it would be the reverse C:/ win 7 D:/xp , and the external as E:/ Data , as for the jumpers Nev will advise further but I personally have never bothered with them on SATA drives

2 floors for wireless might effect is reliability I'd go powerline adapter route if I was in your shoes am sure the other guys here may have different ideas/suggestions

Hi Tim I take it you have the disk image files already (Iso's) if you have then take a look here at the win usb maker from microsoft this will copy the iso's onto a usb for use with a netbook and yes it will make the usbs NTFS

Can you go back to disk management then right click on the drive select properties then select tools then select check the drive for errors [ATTACH=CONFIG]1960[/ATTACH]

ok you bet me too it what size is the drive meant to be ?

ok with the usb drive highlighted right click on it and select run diagnostics then select extended test and click start [ATTACH=CONFIG]1958[/ATTACH]

hi the following link is WD Disk Diagnostics http://support.wdc.com/product/download.asp?groupid=606&sid=3 click on the download button about a third of the way down extract the files then run the set up you'll end up with this or something like [ATTACH=CONFIG]1955[/ATTACH] select your external drive then click the run tests

Hi again Bumblebee hat is the make of the harddrive from the old laptop we may be able to find drive checking tools for that make of drive if not use a generic one to check the drive

You can press ok then follow the wizard but when it asks you to format the drive Do Not format it

Hi again can you right click on the uninitialized drive from within disk mangement then select initialize

I run windows 7 and 8 off two different sized drives when I installed this I fitted the 2nd drive and when I came to select the drive to load windows onto I selected the second drive and installed there windows then installs windows boot loader which enables me to select which operating system to boot from attached is a picture of the boot loader the windows 7 one looks different but you will get the idea. [ATTACH=CONFIG]1035.vB5-legacyid=1951[/ATTACH] Dave

Hi trace i'd use revo uninstaller to remove steam and then reboot and reinstall steam

Hello Bumblebee have you tried going to disk management and seeing if the drive is detected there and what if any file format the disk has been given , to get to disk management click the start orb then right click computer then select manage then when that opens select disk management.

That's good to hear Quirkie I have marked the thread as solved

Hi Gotalife could you download and run this to clean temp system files etc including app data then see how much space it frees http://www.geekstogo.com/forum/files/file/187-tfc-temp-file-cleaner-by-oldtimer/ click the green download on the link

Morning Chaps and Chapettes here's the problem I have one of these Click Here and as you see it's tiny the problem was when it came to me was wavy lines and boot loop , when the wavy lines are there it wont boot it just gets stuck and restarts now to sort this the first time round I dismantled the pc totally removed the cmos battery cleaned the contacts on the back of the mobo re assembled and booted and hey presto it worked so I fully reimaged fully updated then turned it off then I restarted it this morning to install office for the person who's pc this is and you guessed it more wavy lines so I turned it off as you see due to it's size I can't add a graphics card , do you think I should cannibalise it for parts and rebuild or try sorting it again ?

Am looking at both feet in the booits another 6-9 months then orthopedic boots the following link is for charcot foot http://www.foothealthfacts.org/footankleinfo/charcot-foot.htm

Hi Gotalife take a look at the following link from Microsoft explaining how to run disk cleanup in Vista http://windows.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows-vista/delete-files-using-disk-cleanup this should help if not theres other stuff we can run

Hi Randy I have Charcot foot in both feet ( A Diabetes related thing ) the boot on the right foot has been there a year or so my left foot has only just started acting up I get around just.

I dual boot and triple boot my desktops on of them has 2 drives both with there own operating systems , the other one has a partitioned hard drive with 3 operating systems for me to choose from at boot

Theres another way too press the windows key to get to charms bar then click on power and select restart but press the shift key same time you click on restart this will reboot the computer into the advanced options

Hi and welcome to ExTS I'd like you to follow the following instructions this should remove "Default Tab Search Results" Step 1 Please download AdwCleaner by Xplode onto your desktop. Close all open programs and internet browsers. Double click on adwcleaner.exe to run the tool. Click on Delete. Confirm each time with Ok. You will be prompted to restart your computer. A text file will open after the restart. Please post the contents of that logfile with your next reply. You can find the logfile at C:\AdwCleaner[s1].txt as well. Hope this Helps Dave