Recent content by slowhands95128

Since BIOS does not see the hard drive, best guess is the drive is bad. Get a similar new drive and install it. If BIOS sees the drive, then your old drive was bad. Now you just have to install Windows and get back to work. If you are very unlucky, your motherboard is bad. If the CD drive...

There is not much to do. Shutdown the PC. Start the PC, insert your windows media, and boot from it. (You might need to get in BIOS Setup and set boot sequence so it boots from CD or USB before trying to boot from hard drive.) You should see a screen saying Click any key to boot from CD...

Yes, any Dell Vista DVD will work with your Dell PC. Try to use one that has Service Pack 3 (SP3), because there will be no more upgrades from Microsoft and this is the latest. Be aware, you don't get a great browser (IE8 is no longer OK with many secure sites, nor with Google Chrome). And you...

Skype can be a time waster. I like the program when I use it, but I don't like that it installs itself to consume resources at Startup. That makes it available to answer any contacts, which could be good if you expect incomiing, but I don't. Skype consumes a lot of memory. So I disable it...

Getting Windows back after deletion is a major victory. Count your blessings. It sounds like the MBR on your old boot partition is corrupted, and Windows just waits trying to boot from it. There are Recovery solutions that promise to work, maybe like your HirensBootCD, maybe that will restore...

Your key may possibly work but only for Windows 7, not Windows 10. Sometimes Microsoft will not accept an old Key for Windows 7, especially an OEM key from Dell, HP or other OEMs, or if the key has been de-activated because the system was upgraded to Windows 10. They may refuse entirely or...

I have not seen this problem. It seems to be saying you don't have enough disk space, but you do. You really can't proceed without enough disk space recognized by Windows Install. So, what's the hangup?? It's not your power supply, that's fine. It is remotely possible that you disabled your...

You can't recover if you deleted the 64 bit stuff. You will have to reinstall a 64. You do need the key in your machine, so use a key finder like Produkey to get it, and write it down to save it. You will have to buy or download installation disks, if you lost yours, or the machine did not...

Make a note of the key you found in your machine and your edition, like Home, Business etc. You can probably re-use the installed key to activate the same edition of Vista. If not, buy a key. The so-called reinstall disks on ebay work just fine if you have a valid key, which you probably do...