I am planning on reformatting my new acer laptop, but I don't want to reformat it with the bloatware, would the OEM windows 7 key work on a downloaded CD/DVD?
OEM = one use, sorry.
Guys I just got my new sweet awesome series gaming graphics card in. It's so sweet that you can't even handle it's awesome.
Also it was so popular when I was buying it, it sold out!
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=536072&CatId=876
No seriously if you're stupid and don't get that I am joking then lol. I have no loving clue why this card was in my house to begin with. I was lurking about on my second floor after laying in the sun outside and I see in my old computer room in the closet an anti-static bag that I recieved when I bought my Radeon HD 4550 1gb. So I was like Da fuq, I grabbed it off the top shelve as it was hiding next to the ceiling for god how many years. I looked at an old computer receipt my mom found from 1998 and it wasn't with that. So really the forget is this thing doing and why is that no computer that we have owned, or gotten from others it ever came with.
AGP slot. Figure out what model it is :P
This is the one thing that frustrates me most with society that involves computers. People do not loving understand that PC stands for personal computer. And mainly you, Boink, are the factor in this scenario that is the factor resulting in this thread that will cause a flame war because you lack the understanding that Mac's are equally PC's just to Window's computers are PC's as well. So when people say "Macvspc" it's just a mac vs itself nothing else. Mac's are built the exact same way any windows computer is. The education of america, europe or anywhere for that matter fails at describing the basis between context of PC being an overall computer and Window's being Microsoft's counteractive to Apple's Macintosh system. Nothing makes them special but their looks and user basis opinions of the two. So next time, don't say PC means window's or it means Mac, because it means loving any computer system.
So go to hell 'Boink!'. My argument is final.
Just saying, even Apple themselves in their marketing try to separate their computers from the PC name. Just look at the "Hi, I'm a Mac. And I'm a PC" advertising campaign they had not long ago.
I'm pretty sure it's removable, but I would honestly have far less pain installing drivers over removing bloatware and getting fragmentation.
It would be far less painful just installing a clean copy and installing the drivers separately since i have separate computers.
Oh, and the Acer recovery DVD's still keep the bloatware, unfortunately.
And one last thing, my webcam drivers don't mix well at ALL with the bloatware. Main reason why I wanted to reformat with a clean slate.
Most computers don't even need drivers installed anyway. Windows 7 has a pretty decent stock hardware driver library already in the OS.
http://forum.blockland.us/index.php?topic=193392.0
So I took out the hard drive and tried to boot it on another computer, same issue. I used checkdisk on it, and it said nothing was wrong with the hard drive; so what is the issue then?
Sounds to me like there is a corruption in your OS files.
Do you get the error during startup?
If so, press F8 just after the BIOS flash screen, and select Last Known Good Configuration.
If that doesn't work, try selecting safe mode and see if it will boot in that.
If it does boot in safe mode, it appears it is a driver/software problem with recently installed hardware/applications. What was the last thing you remember installing? Try remove any drivers/software you think could be causing the issue.
Report back here after this. But if you are feeling a bit ruthless:
If I were you, I'd do 3 things:
Download HDDRegen, put it on a USB stick/CD and run it on the problem hard drive to check for bad sectors.
Then, put the hard drive into another computer and get all your valuable information off.
Then, if the HDDRegen finishes and the hard drive itself looks healthy:
- Format the drive.
- Install a fresh copy of Windows.
- Transfer your valuable information back over.
Job done. But if the hard drive contains a lot of bad sectors, fails to scan properly or is really slow with scanning, then I would:
- Buy a new hard drive.
- Install Windows.
- Transfer your valuable information on to the new hard drive.
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