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In order to create a partition in setup you are going to need to convert the drive back to MBR. If you want to erase the drive and start from scratch you can do the following below. Just make sure you backup any important information on the drive. **CAUTION** this will erase ALL information...

I haven't had any issues with Windows 8 at all with CS6. If your comfortable with the UI changes that Win 8 made I say go with 8. It has a much better kernel in it IMO. For me, once I learned to treat the "Start Screen" as just a glorified start menu I've been much happier with 8. A couple...

If your wanting to use PC based applications then your pretty much stuck with either XP, 7 or 8. If you want to try the Linux I would grab Ubuntu and Steam for Linux. There isn't as many games in there but might be a nice change of scenery for you ;)

If Windows 8 was preinstalled on your laptop you will need to get into bios on your laptop and turn off UEFI Secure Boot and enable "Legacy" boot. Installing a new OS can sometimes be a complicated process especially if windows doesn't have network or wireless drivers for your particular...

It does sound like a memory issue to me. I've seen Windows Memory Diagnostics Tool give a clean bill of health to a computer with memory problems before. Try memtest instead. You can download it at http://www.memtest.org/

No perceivable difference. Only real benefit to 64 bit is ability to have over 4GB of memory on a computer. There are also some lesser known security features in 64bit like Kernel Patch Guard.

Do you have a backup battery (UPS) plugged up to system by chance? I've seen before if you have the USB or serial cable attached that small fluctuations in power will sometimes have it trigger a sleep mode. If not, sounds like you might have a hardware issue. I'd try replacing the power...