Hey, anyone know a good program to put Windows 7 files onto USB for booting? Just installed a Gigabyte GTX570 OC and now it's saying it can't start computer due to hardware changes -_-*

If you have trouble after restoring, before you do a clean install you can either take hdd out, chuck it into another computer and copy, or you could use and ultimate boot cd or linux distro to copy the files.

dunno what drugs you're smoking, I did this very thing tonight, GTX 570 OC and a new PSU. Only thing I had trouble with was I'd hibernated previously and forgot to clean boot so I just had to delete the hibernation data and windows was golden.

Might help though that I have an unactivated retail version of W7 ultimate so it probably doesn't care if I change my hardware around. Haven't activated yet coz I just formatted the other day and there's no point as I'll be getting a totally new PC in the next month or two.

hmm last time I went from ATI to nvidia (or was it nvidia to ATI?) I had to format to get games to stop crashing, windows still booted though.

Have you tried a simple safemode?

Maybe the ATI uninstaller accidentally took out some key windows files.

If you can't fix windows put ubuntu on a usb stick with this: http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/
Copy all your data off onto a usb hard drive or burn it or put it on another partition & just format.