I want to clone a laptop drive that's larger in capacity than the one in my laptop. The original has two logical partitions. I have Acronis True Image 11. Reason: If my laptop drive ever goes south, I should just be able to pop the cloned drive in and off we go. I need some detailed guidance on how to do this.

Hi guys, Earlier today my Fujitsu-Siemans laptop crashed whilst doing windows updates installation. Now it won't boot. Before it took it over 20mintues to get past the green scrolling bar bit and then it got stuck on welcome. Tried booting it in safe mode, and the same thing happens. For some reason the damn thing has no system restore points and alot of things that are important to me (my...

Over the past few months I have had several several System Failures where the computer automaticaly restarted. Each time I would go into System Properties/Advanced/Stertup and Recovery/Settings, and unchecked the Automaticaly restart box. Today another System Failure caused another Auto restart. This time I paid meticulous attention to the procedre and noted that the unchecking of the Auto...

So I turn off my computer and got to sleep, come home from school and suddenly get these errors on almost EVERY program on my computer including internet explorer, but for some reason internet explorer (64 - bit) still worked. So I found this forum and tried getting the usual programs to fix the error, but I'm getting side by side errors from trying to install them. I'm running Windows Vista...

I am having a problem with the way my computer looks. it looks like this: http://i42.tinypic.com/2a0duup.jpg] and i would like for it to look like this: http://www.vistax64.com/attachments/general-discussion/6040d1232212977t-default-my-computer-view-computer.jpg] also, the view keeps changing on all of my other folders, like, if i go

Hope I'm in right forum. My OS is Vista Home Premium 64 bit. On a couple of occasions I've tried to action "System Restore". So far I've met with NO success. It seems to go through the motions OK ( if you believe what you see on the moniter) but when the comp restarts I am bluntly informed that restoration has NOT taken place.

Hi All, I hope I'm posting this in the correct topic thread. System: Vista 32bit service pack 2 Here's my issue: -I backed up up my files to an external drive;

So, I've been trying to install Windows 7. That's when my problems started. I was trying to upgrade from Vista, at the compatibility report it stopped, gave me only an option to close. Blank report. http://img11.imageshack.us/img11/792/cannotupgradewindows7rt.jpg] So I tried this again and again, but it didn't work. Then my Windows Media Player stopped working. I downloaded Winamp, but still,...

So, I've been trying to install Windows 7. That's when my problems started. I was trying to upgrade from Vista, at the compatibility report it stopped, gave me only an option to close. Blank report. http://img11.imageshack.us/img11/792/cannotupgradewindows7rt.jpg] So I tried this again and again, but it didn't work. Then my Windows Media Player stopped working. I downloaded Winamp, but still,...

Hello, I get the following message on my VISTA computer and I need to know is the hard drive dead and will I have to FDISK, or equivalent and reload windows from restore disk, or can Windows Vista be recovered without wipind the hard drive clean by and FDISK. Here is the screen: " Chcecking the file system on C: The type of the file system is NTFS. One of your disks needs to be checked for...

When booting up, the screen will intermittently "Blank" out. If anyone can assist or inform me on this issue, I would appreciate it.

When booting up, the screen will intermittently "Blank" out. If anyone can assist or inform me on this issue, I would appreciate it.

I am unable to install or uninstall any programs in Windows Vista. If I attempt to do so, I get the following message: Another program is being installed. Please wait until that installation is complete, and then try installing this software again. I get this error if I try to install a program using a CD, DVD or download, and I get this error if I try to uninstall a program from the...

After HP health check completed it's job I had info msg: " JIT Debugging ************** To enable just-in-time (JIT) debugging, the .config file for this application or computer (machine.config) must have the jitDebugging value set in the system.windows.forms section. The application must also be compiled with debugging enabled.

Hi experts I have a Vista Ultimate laptop with drive C: 76GB NTFS basic for programs, drive D: 15GB NTFS basic for my data and 14GB not allocated. C: is full and I would like to expand the size. The 14GB resulted from a reduction of D: I assumed it will be added automatically to C: But all wrong!! How can I proceed to enlarge C:?

Hope I'm in right forum. My OS is Vista Home Premium 64 bit. On a couple of occasions I've tried to action "System Restore". So far I've met with NO success. It seems to go through the motions OK ( if you believe what you see on the moniter) but when the comp restarts I am bluntly informed that restoration has NOT taken place.

Hey guys, Today, I got one type of BSOD several times. The BSOD suddenly occurs; when my laptop is turned on (for a few hours), the blue screen pops up, mentioning something about 'IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL'. After the BSOD, Windows restarts, and usually just comes back to the logon screen. There's no specific handling i did which might cause the BSOD. I know this since my laptop was shut down or...

I am having the exact same issue as the person here...and I would really like some sort of explanation, if possible. Not being able to use windows Dvd maker all of the sudden is frusterating....pls help! -- Raj1

i was using a nvidia graphic card with d lastest nvidia driver. the startup was somewhere aroung 1-1.5min. i bought an ATI card and uninstalled d nvidia driver install ATI driver only see vista startup jump to 3min!! what is the problem.? thanx in advance -- vijfifa

My computer is freezing about 10 seconds after being unlocked or restarted. The desktop, bottom bar and start menu all freeze but if i am able to open applications before everything freezes i can use them while the rest of the computer is still frozen. ctrl+alt+del opens the normal page and i can open task manager but that instantly freezes. The login page isnt frozen thoug because from the ctrl...