Quick Windows 7 Question

Gavin Scott · Thu 31 Dec, 2009 15.12

OK I have a little quad core shuttle pc which came back to life this morning with the help of new RAM.

I'm using a SATA hard drive out of another machine in it, installed with Windows 7. Unsurprisingly it won't boot and is attempting to repair itself - but can't, as the OS was installed on another machine.

I want to wipe the drive and reinstall the evaluation Windows 7 disk (or maybe XP), but not having much luck.

Tried putting Ubuntu disk in but it always goes to the Windows OS first (like Vista), even when I set the BIOS to ignore the hard drive.

I've attached the drive to my other PC and attempted to format it, but XP is unable to do that.

Suggestions? Would like it working this evening as a media player.

Bail · Thu 31 Dec, 2009 15.31

There should be a BIOS option for boot order, look for this and set it to check the CD Drive first then HD Drives and put your bootable OS/Install CD in.

Gavin Scott · Thu 31 Dec, 2009 15.49

Bail wrote:There should be a BIOS option for boot order, look for this and set it to check the CD Drive first then HD Drives and put your bootable OS/Install CD in.

I have done that, and then even not put the HD in the choice of three.

It always goes to Windows though.

Gavin Scott · Thu 31 Dec, 2009 16.16

Ah, all cool. managed to run the Windows 7 cd from a command window in the "repair windows" mode.

Ta much for the suggestion though.

Sput · Sat 09 Jan, 2010 21.29

My turn! Just this week my mouse clicks have all started taking several seconds to register, but only in Explorer (including the taskbar and task switching), control panel, remote desktop and anything else that seems to come with Windows 7 (for example, word is fine). As you can imagine it's amazingly annoying. Anyone heard of this happening? Also the mouseover effect in the taskbar takes a similar amount of time to respond.

Dr Lobster* · Sat 09 Jan, 2010 22.14

you haven't got a turdy shell extension installed that might be doing it ?

you can download autoruns from the microsoft website to turn off suspect applications and extensions:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysi ... 63902.aspx

Jovis · Sat 09 Jan, 2010 22.59

The other place reckons you posted that at 5:14pm. It's been doing that for a few days.

Pete · Sat 09 Jan, 2010 23.35

Everything seems normal here, as in your post times match on here and on tvf...

Jovis · Sat 09 Jan, 2010 23.37

Hmmm, matching now. How strange. Never mind.

Sput · Sat 09 Jan, 2010 23.40

Figured out my issue. The culprit is.....

Microsoft Word. How utterly shoddy.