Computer problems

[luda300zx]

Ugh, I'm pretty smart with computers (built my own myself) but i want a second opinion. Heres the rundown. I had upgraded my computer to windows 7 from vista a couple months back, loved it 20X better then vista. Now a week ago i think i accidently got a virus or something that kaspersky let through so it restarted and hasn't ran since. I tried to do a start-up recovery with the vista disk and it would just blue screen and freeze. It then started to say that the file winload.exe was corrupt. So after doing this a few times with the same results i said ef it and took out the hdd and put it in my other computer to format it. Figured that would take care of things with a clean install. nope. i installed the hdd back into my computer with a fresh format, go to install vista and boom, blue screen again and now im in the same spot as before. I'm thinking about just buying another hdd. What do you think?

 

[Owen.C93]

I had a quick google and found lots of people with the same problem and a few solutions. There are for too many for me to suggest but have you tried any of them?

 

[GT3mich]

Yeah, my wife had that problem. Her computer had XP loaded on it. I tried rolling it back to a restore point from a week earlier which usually works but the computer though working was sluggish so I loaded Windows 7 for her and its working fine. She showed me the blue screen of death. Displayed through the firefox browser. BSOD's give you enough info to figure out what the problem is. Its usually a memory problem.

 

[luda300zx]

i only tried what i said, i mean i did hard resets pulled the battery everything and nothing seems to work... any ideas?

 

[GT3mich]

Why did you try to repair Windows 7 with a Vista disk? The 2 are not the same. That winload.exe is corrupt message is a Vista OS problem. Do you have a Windows 7 install disk?

 

[luda300zx]

Why did you try to repair Windows 7 with a Vista disk? The 2 are not the same. That winload.exe is corrupt message is a Vista OS problem. Do you have a Windows 7 install disk?

negative i was running a cracked version of 7 which ran flawlessly. the thing is i formated the whole drive already and its still blue screening when i reinstall windows vista

 

[GT3mich]

negative i was running a cracked version of 7

I'm done here. You're on your own. Buy legit OS.

 

[Submerged]

Guess you could take it to the other computer and run a complete file wipe using some of the Linux disk wipe software? Are you considering that?

Sometimes the format and wipe features on Windows are not strong enough and it will still have some programs and/or defective bits that gets re-installed.

So, with a proper Linux file/disk wipe program, its another way of just checking that everything is totally wiped off before attempting to re-install Vista onto it.

Alternatively, if you don't want to use Vista, you can use any of the Linux variants instead. Just can't game that well with the latest games.

 

[nick09]

Yeah you can use wine to see if you can run your old windows programs(It's just a shell of windows). There is also paid linux software to run windows games.

 

[Acheron79]

Guess you could take it to the other computer and run a complete file wipe using some of the Linux disk wipe software? Are you considering that?

Sometimes the format and wipe features on Windows are not strong enough and it will still have some programs and/or defective bits that gets re-installed.

So, with a proper Linux file/disk wipe program, its another way of just checking that everything is totally wiped off before attempting to re-install Vista onto it.

Alternatively, if you don't want to use Vista, you can use any of the Linux variants instead. Just can't game that well with the latest games.

This. Get Ubuntu or OpenSuSe and install that instead. Would rule out any misgivings you have about your hard drive and would end up with a more stable OS. Used Linux for 2 years now and never looked back.

 

[luda300zx]

will do that thanks guys.

why are you so up in arms about me using a cracked version? Do you have vista or ever used it? If yes, then you would know it was the biggest rip-off/POS OS made. I always buy legit software but i refuse to buy anymore bs from microsoft after making a crappy os like that.

I'm done here. You're on your own. Buy legit OS.

 

[GT3mich]

Thats a lame excuse for running a cracked copy of Windows 7. They released an RC version for everyone to use for a year before they started selling it. And yes Vista was terrible.

 

[boshuter]

will do that thanks guys.

why are you so up in arms about me using a cracked version? Do you have vista or ever used it? If yes, then you would know it was the biggest rip-off/POS OS made. I always buy legit software but i refuse to buy anymore bs from microsoft after making a crappy os like that.

If you don't like it... don't buy it.... that's not an excuse to steal it 👎

 

[Owen.C93]

Well either way you don't need another HDD, enter your BIOS on boot and check it's booting from the disk drive first, then try it with the vista disk, make sure you do a clean install and not a repair.

 

[luda300zx]

Well thats the thing, ill boot from cd and still it will blue screen on me everytime at different points. literally tried everything

 

[Azuremen]

will do that thanks guys.

why are you so up in arms about me using a cracked version? Do you have vista or ever used it? If yes, then you would know it was the biggest rip-off/POS OS made. I always buy legit software but i refuse to buy anymore bs from microsoft after making a crappy os like that.

Terrible excuse is terrible, considering how many free OS options there are now.

Honestly I'm more up in arms about your failure to use punctuation and capital letters on a regular basis.

That aside, sounds like you mucked everything up real good when you attempted to restore a Win7 install with a Vista disc, let alone a cracked Win7 install.

And FYI, a child can build a computer these days - everything is plug and play and selectively pinned so it is almost impossible to actually hook up anything incorrectly. I wouldn't really use it as a key point in defending your computer knowledge, as it clearly is lacking if you've not been able to properly trouble shoot something such as this with Internet access.

 

[Submerged]

Smackdown much?

 

[luda300zx]

I just got owned. Anyway, enough crapping on me about me stealing 7.

So I downloaded Ubuntu and im retarded with it. It may be because I'm running it on a VMware player which isn't running the full version. I go to Gparted partition editor and my hd isn't showing up, just some unallocated 100GiB thing is.

 

[Casio]

Do you have vista or ever used it? If yes, then you would know it was the biggest rip-off/POS OS made

Yes. And I don't know that. Most people who had issues with Vista weren't savvy enough to adapt to differences from XP, or were running on really old hardware and wondering why their computer was slow. It's no buggier than XP, and if you had a decent PC it wasn't much slower than Windows 7.

 

[Submerged]

I just got owned. Anyway, enough crapping on me about me stealing 7.

So I downloaded Ubuntu and im retarded with it. It may be because I'm running it on a VMware player which isn't running the full version. I go to Gparted partition editor and my hd isn't showing up, just some unallocated 100GiB thing is.

There is an Ubuntu forum to go to which has all sorts of very useful information. http://ubuntuforums.org/ and https://help.ubuntu.com/. The "ubuntuforum" is the forum where all beginners ask for help and the advanced users help out. Also they cover any topic, such as different graphic cards and solutions to make them work. The help.ubuntu site is the official webpage for help and information about Ubuntu and their different versions.

Can I ask why you are running it in a Virtual Machine? You cannot install an Operating System inside a VM and then plug it into a computer and expect it to work and load the Operating system itself.

Just put the hard drive in your normal computer, boot the computer and go into the BIOS, set the boot-up sequence to do the CD boot first then the Hard Drive, put in the DVD disc/CD disc with the Ubuntu information (It should be burnt to it, check its burnt properly, not as a ISO file! I've made that mistake quite a few times...), restart the computer and then it should boot to the CD. Select from the menu whatever choices you want (ie: Install onto HDD and follow the instructions there. You basically want to overwrite the whole of the HDD with Ubuntu as it is your Operating System now...)

Be warned, you will find that the music players will be slightly limited in playing certain codecs due to licencing issues. Again, UbuntuForums will show you the way to install these licenced codecs...

I hope I've answered any questions?