Clean Install

So i thought i had my bookmarks stored on my google account. Because i tryed to find the folder without luck. After clean install in windows 10 and i installed google and log on the bookmarks was gone. I do not want to repeat and want to backup store my bookmarks. i search google etc. no help...

I will be reusing my SSDs and HDD on my new build. I will do a clean install of OS but how do I know my other SSDs and HDD are clean?

I installed windows 10 in my macbook with bootcamp around 4 months ago, I really want to downgrade the windows 10 bootcamp to windows 7 but without delete all of the files, do you know how, please help, Thanks :D

Hi guys! I have some issues with my backlit keyboard, I cant change it behavior ([i]everytime I press a button, keyboard lights up) which is annoying. I looked it up but no hope. I did clean install win7 pro lately and installed required drivers, also I tried to install Sony Vaio Control Center...

I recently downloaded a program that contained a RAT, a few hours later i noticed random mouse movement, then my google chrome closing. I immediately pulled out my network and tried to find the RAT but failed. I checked everywhere but i couldn't find traces of it. I believe it was a crypted...

I was having a random reboot problem with my new windows 10 laptop. Dell support told me to do a reset. I did a total back to factory reset. I am stuck at 64% on the reinstall for over an hour and don't know what to do next. Can anyone help with this problem?

So I bought a new laptop that came with Windows 10. I have software that is just not working on 10 and would like to go to 7. However, I can't boot from cd or usb for a clean install so I've launched the install from within 10. I got to the "Expanding Windows" portion of the install screen and...

I need help please. I tried resetting my laptop which has windows 10. I am trying to clean install but saving my files. But I received a message that it was not completed in a blue screen. It re started, then gave me that message, plus stating no changes were made. Please help me. Thank you.

So I have a severe adware problem, I've tried everything, used malwarebytes and adwcleaner, searched for any programs that I don't know were installed and deleted them, done a clean reinstall of firefox and followed every forum I can find with no luck removing it, any help would be appreciated

im wanting to do a clean install of windows 10 on my gl752vw - dh71 and im wondering if i need the download all the drivers and find the right ones or if i just install the live update tool if it will find and install the correct ones. im also wondering if there is a take apart guide i have a...

Hi, I had majr issues with this Samsung so I decided to do a clean install. I formatted the drive, installed an image of a GPT for UEFI partition structure. I then prepared a USB stick with a ISO of Win 10. I tried to install the ISO several times but it locked up several times during the...

Hello everyone, Here is my issue. I just got a deal on a brand new HP Probook 450 G3 that came with a 1To HDD and Windows 10 pre-installed. I used the spare money to purchase an Windows 7 Pro x64 license and a Sandisk 256Gb SSD. My intention was to pull the original HDD out and do a clean...

Hi all, I have a Lenovo Thinkpad T420 (from a friend) and I want a clean/default OS (as a new looking operating system. So, I have googled how to do it but I'm confused with the 'Q" (recovery) drive now. Some say it restores the laptop to factory default. But what I want is to get the full size...

I did a clean install of windows 10 on a Lenovo Yoga 2 13 laptop. Did the updates and downloaded drivers from Lenovo's website. The laptop pairs with my JBL Charge bluetooth speaker but connects only if I have the speaker "on" when I start or reboot the laptop. I have tried changing the...

I just did a clean install of windows 10 to my wife's Yoga 2 13. She uses a JBL bluetooth speaker. If I reboot or wake the laptop with the speaker "on" it pairs and connects - with about a minute delay. But if I reboot or wake the laptop with the speaker "off" - then turn it on - it shows as...

I recently got a brand new sandisk SSD. I already have windows installed on my current HDD but i wanted to install OS and games on the SSD and keep the HDD for storage. So i disconnected my HDD and attaching the SSD i did a clean install of windows 8.1 NO programs installed or anything like...

i want to clean install windows 10 and me and my 2 friends have used 2 norton keys and one friend will use the third later. after i install windows 10 and download norton internet security ( we have a nis 2013 package that we used this year ). how to keep my subscription without using the...

Hello I got a laptop that was supposed to come with an 128 ssd with the OS installed in it. Surprise surprise! The store i bought it from removed the ssd and let the 1TB (5.4k rpm) in, and made a partition where the OS is installed. Can i destroy the hdd and get a 500 GB samsung ssd and buy a...

Im going out of my mind trying to fix this laptop. Yesterday i got my gateway laptop, believe the model is NE56R52u, to a reset and set it up to be my own. It had windows 10 on it and it was working fine. Today the wifi wouldn't turn on. I looked around and i reinstalled the windows 7 i got with...

Hi, I've just finished my new build and performed a clean install of windows 10. What are the best programmes and utilities to protect and keep my my PC running smoothly? This is a gaming PC if that makes a difference. Thanks for reading.

Edges look awful in all games that i have played. Things that I tried to fix the problem: -Changing Settings in Nvidia Control Panel. -Clean install. ( Used DDu and installed drivers that my laptop came with. ver 344 ) -Starting Nvidia Control Panel as administrator with Windows 8...

So I just bought a lenovo x220 and I have Windows 7 on it. The only thing installed is the OS. I am going to put a ssd in to replace the mechanical hard drive. I want to keep the OS because I don't want to have to buy windows. I want to do a clean install on the ssd to make sure it is installed...

Hi all. Thanks for all your advice on choosing a laptop last week. I've just bought a Lenovo Yoga 500 15.6" and love the feel and look of it, but I've encountered a problem. The amount of bloatware is rather annoying so I wanted to do what I've always done on previous laptops or PCs of mine. I...

I have a Toshiba Satellite P50-A. It came with Windows 8 when I bought it two years ago, and I upgraded to 8.1 when it was available. A while ago I also upgraded to Windows 10 the first chance I got, and that is where my problems began. When gaming, I would get video tdr errors and frequent...

A few days ago I did a clean install and redownloaded uTorrent (the latest version). The installer asked me to download some kind of suspicious program in order to install uTorrent itself. Naturally I declined and closed it. However, the idiot me decided to try again and clicked the installer a...

I have laptop from a friend which is the Acer Aspire 5732z. He gave it to me to remove malware and viruses but there were so many that I chose to do a clean install of Windows 7. Everytime I do a clean install eveything works fine except the Windows Update which gets stuck at "Checking for...

Hello. I'm going to buy a used laptop today. Now, the thing is, the current owner (whom I do not know personally) said he will do a clean install. If it'll actually appear to be a fresh Windows, should I just download a few different virus scanners to make sure it's fine, or should I reinstall...

First, sorry for my english. My native language is spanish. I didn't find too much information about this kind of virus "outbound" so i still can't find a solution. The problem: Pop up banners on EVERY browser, even after formated the pc with clean install. I've used: windows defender, spybot...

I upgraded from Windows 8.1 to 10 but I was having a lot of issues with 10 so I did a clean install of 8.1 from a bootable USB (I deleted Windows.old without thinking so I was not able to use the "Revert to 8.1" option in Windows 10). After updating drivers and all the housekeeping of installing...

I am using a USB flash drive to install the windows 10 pro final version. created it using the media creation tool provided by Microsoft, however when I boot using it and I begin the installation I have a problem. Right after clicking the "install" I get an error message. "A media driver your...

I was using Windows 8 since it's launch, upgraded to 8.1 and then to 10. 5 months or so ago when I was on 8.1, I started having this problem of video files played on any media player (tried MPC & VLC) would crash suddenly. I thought a clean install would fix it but didn't bother to do it at the...

setup new dell 8.1 laptop without all dell garbage programs?

Hey all, A friend of mine just bought a new asus n551jk laptop, and decided to install a pirated version of a virus scan, and powerdvd, plus a game. And then it became a little slower, obviously, then asked me for support. So i figured out maybe the software just took to much ram, because there...

Hi all, Finally getting around to upgrading my laptop this weekend (RAM from 4gb to 8gb & 320GB HDD to 240GB SSD). I've seen numerous tutorials regarding cloning the HDD & OS etc, but I would really like to perform a "fresh" install. Current HDD has a recovery partition, no disc - although I...

I'm new to trying to troubleshoot computer issues so I apologize if this seems vague.. Basically the issue is that I need to do a clean-slate install of windows 8 and I've hit my dead end. The laptop is a Toshiba Satellite pre-installed with windows 8. A few months ago I booted up and got "no...

Dear All, I have been waging a long war with the Trojan Downloader virus. It has become more and more aggressive. Now everytime I log onto my computer I see 5 new adware appear. I have run Microsoft Malicious Hardware Removal Tool, Malwarebytes, Kaspersky, and other programs. None have fully...

just did a clean install of windows 7 and when i try to use internet explorer every site i go to it tells me that there is a problem with the websites security certificate...how can i fix this??? thanks for the help.

I recently bought a Samsung 840EVO 250gb SSD with the intention of installing it in my Asus Laptop (Aspire V5). I then intend to do a clean install of my OS on this. In order to do this I have been led to believe that I need either a USB drive or a CD with the OS on it from which to boot during...

i found out about a promotion that gives u free win 10 if u have win 7/8. Is that a upgrade or a clean install ( wiping everything out and installing) ? Reason im asking is im using win 7 crack with win loader 2.1.7. And i have all sorts of junk on my pc. So i want a clean, legit, fresh start...

I was using a cracked version on win7 with winloader this morning. Than i found about the win 10 technical preview so i did a clean install (meaning wiping out everything). After i did some research i found out that win 10 is free for win 7/8. But unfortunately i dont have win 7 disk so im stuck...

I have Windows 7 Home Premium now. I've taken the laptop back to 'brand new' but still the machine runs slow when I'm online. Sometimes a video plays ok, but mostly they keep getting hung up.. some website time out.. My laptop worked fine and was fast till a month ago. After a week or so I...

I picked up a brand new ASUS N551JK today and did a clean install once i took it out of the box. After installing necessary programs, drivers, updating, etc. I finally sat down and turned on netflix. Checked my battery life and its showing 71% (1 hour and 5 minutes remaining). That seems a...

clean install doesn't allow me to install windows 7 on my hp desktop h8 1214 it says no drivers are on the cd / windows 8 installs fine no problem, do anyone know why, all help is needed, thanks

BSOD - Posting Instructions - as stated in before posting any BSOD that it's good to provide a crash dump i'm sorry for not providing any since i can't access my drives my laptop is HP sleekbook pavilion g6 series, that was a windows 8 uefi windows but downgraded to a windows 7 ultimate x64...

Could malware survive a format and reload done in this way? - Unplugged internet. - Turned off PC for over 24 hours at the power supply. - Took out the CMOS battery for a while. - Held down the power button for 15 secs with the CMOS battery out. - Used Diskpart 'Clean All' - Re-installed...

I bought a cheap Windows 7 Acer laptop about 3 years ago. I was considering buying a new laptop, but now I am thinking I would rather just upgrade it to an SSD, but the only part I am unsure how to do is transfer the Windows install. The laptop did not come with a Windows install disc, so is it...

So a few weeks ago my laptop - dell xps l502x - was unable to boot, I had to reinstall windows 7 from the dell recovery partition. Since the clean install I have been encountering problems. When watching videos the video will always freeze, and the audio skip back a few seconds and loop 3 times...

I have the windows product key but i wish to do a clean install or wipe the laptop, how can i if possible do this without having to take it to the shop because if not i wont bother!! any help much appreciated

for the past few months my laptop sceen was shoing " operating system not found" on startup.. i performed a clean install of windows 7 aroind 3 days ago.. bt still the problem persists and in addn now the laptop has become extremely slow.. what should i do now ??

I just installed windows 7(not a clean install, I install from set up not on Bios screen) because my PC seemed to have been damage from viruses of some sort. After that I deleted Windows.old folder. Here's the problem, the folder can not be completely deleted because of a file that I assumed a...

How can i do a clean install on macbook pro

Hi Everyone, My Asus r751jb-mh71 windows 8.1 has been trolling me pretty hard. It is very slow to boot and annoying overall. I want to go with windows 7. Does anyone have any experience with such an upgrade? Can you share any important lessons please? Thanks!

I am working on a friend's laptop, a compaq presario cq57, He wanted me to remove windows 7 because it was screwing up badly and replace it with windows xp pro sp3. So I went to work as usual by first wiping the hdd to get rid of win 7 so it wouldn't block the xp installation. That is where the...

my computer got real slow and went crazy. the IT guy i hired found tons of virus' on my computer and then deleted them. after that, he found that the c drive was corrupted and told me that he needed to do a reinstall. he charges per job, so will i have to pay for both the Malware removal and...

I have a macbook pro a1286. Does not boot up. I purchased online software....mountain lion. I tried restoring backup and disk utilities etc....safari says notenough room on hard drive.......please help cause im losing all my hair and am going to smash my laptop.

hello everyone, short story, i removed the ssd, wiped it, and installed a new copy of 8.1 x64 pro via usb. The laptop originally came with 8 x64. problem is when i close the lid, and open the lid, the screen will not turn on. ive tried to follow through the keys to shut down (win +x, shutdown...

hello everyone, laptop is an ASUS X550CA. i installed 8.1 pro on my laptop as a new install. laptop originally came with 8. after a messy upgrade to 8.1 (multiple boot partitions etc..) i just went ahead and got a new os. the problem is, the laptop wont wake up after i open the lid. the...

I recently replaced a failed hard drive, finally got windows installed on it. This is on a Lenovo z585. I was able to download some missing drivers from their support page, since they offered them for windows 7 and win 8 as well. Others I need like, USB 2.0 crw and possibly the 'chipset'...are...

okay. hi. i hve checked some youtube videos on how to do a clean install of win 7 from win 8.1 . and i understand the process. but im scared wheather i can find all the drivers requiered for my laptop. its HP 15-r004ne . it says its compatable with windows 7 and wndows 8.1 both 64 bit . but when...

Hello! I have a Sony VAIO sve14a3v2es which came with window 8 pre-installed. I had a bad day with windows so I decided to install linux mint. Stupid as I am I erased the entire disk, deleting the recovery partition. I was happy with linux and still am but I have software that requires windows...