Recent content by Robert_E

Good day Poorguy I was able to get my sister to burn the ISO from the link you sent (I found it in an earlier message) but the computer won't boot from that either. I'm getting a CMOS error that the master boot device is "ATAPI Incompatible" which I have to confirm with the F1 key. Any idea...

could you please send the link again? My sister can make that disk on her computer. Thanks Robert

My sister has a Windows partition on her Mac so I'll ask her to create the DVD from your link and see what happens. I'll let you know

I tried booting to the win 7 and 8 DVD's and it won't boot from either no matter what the first boot device is set to in the CMOS

The PC is generic no name and I've tried the CMOS using the CD/DVD as the first boot device. I was initially able to boot from either the Win 7 or 8 DVD and I erased the C drive which had two partitions. When I erased the first (small) partition and tried to install the new OS it told me there...

Thanks for the quick reply. I was able to initially boot to my original Win 7 DVD and Win 8 DVD but now it won't let me boot to either without complaining that something is missing, even if I change the CMOS to use the DVD as the first/main boot device. It gives me the same error no matter what...

My PC has been running Windows 7 without any problems for years but now it's complaining about the password not being correct. I don't have a password reset key. I tried upgrading to Windows 8 but it said the drive is locked. No matter what I try, I can't seem to unlock it. If I boot to a...