Windows product activation problems
Posted by Mike Halsey in crisis on 02. Dec, 2008 | 0 Comments
Every so often Windows product action will cause problems. There was a known bug with Vista, that was fortunately solved by Service Pack 1, that caused Windows to occasionally (though very rarely) believe that it was a pirated copy.
In situation such as this you will be presented by a window similar to the one below (you [...]
Help! Windows won’t start!! Part 3 – Hardware Failure?
Posted by Mike Halsey in crisis on 12. Oct, 2008 | 1 Comment
There are rare occasions when you’ve run the System File Checker or chosen to repair a Windows installation using the Recovery Console or a different method. If this has failed, reinatalling Windows by choosing the upgrade option is next. But you’re still getting a message similar to “Windows cannot start because the following file is missing [...]
Help! Windows won’t start!! Part 2 – driver problems
Posted by Mike Halsey in crisis on 08. Oct, 2008 | 0 Comments
In part 1 of this article series I talked about rescuing a Windows installation where the boot sector, or boot files of the operating system have become corrupt. What is much more common however is that a driver, very commonly a graphics card driver, will prevent Windows from starting, commonly giving you the infamous Blue [...]
I can’t get online because my wi-fi card isn’t working
Posted by Mike Halsey in crisis on 07. Oct, 2008 | 0 Comments
This will commonly happen in one of the following circumstances…
You have reinstalled Windows and have a corrupt or incorrect driver for your wi-fi card or, worse, don’t have a driver CD and there’s no driver installed by default by Windows (this is way more common than you might think it is)
You have tried, or Windows [...]
Help! Windows won’t start!! Part 1 – Corrupt Startup
Posted by Mike Halsey in crisis on 05. Oct, 2008 | 0 Comments
Everybody’s worst nightmare, you switch on your PC and windows refuses to start. You either get the notorious Blue Screen of Death or a completely incomprehensible error. Maybe you’re getting a ‘no boot device’ message when it started perfectly well yesterday. No matter how many times you restart the machine, you still can’t get Windows [...]
