Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: keithr0 Newsgroups: aus.computers Subject: Re: Windose 10 Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2016 16:08:17 +1000 Lines: 82 Message-ID: References: <8ru76ctjlnb7521iomnm20t2d29078vm9d@j.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net gkiRVzq1ZGSS+c501vAMegJMZa6l/+hor8apmorGUglNWknXJ3 Cancel-Lock: sha1:kKNxf3lIzQ59iZa7ebBMxUkgwXQ= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.5.0 In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com aus.computers:57051 On 12/30/2016 12:27 PM, felix wrote: > On Friday, 30 Dec 2016 11:04 AM, felix wrote: >> On Friday, 30 Dec 2016 11:01 AM, felix wrote: >>> On Friday, 30 Dec 2016 5:54 AM, Rod Speed wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> "felix" wrote in message >>>> news:eckekqFsba7U1@mid.individual.net... >>>>> On Thursday, 29 Dec 2016 10:53 PM, felix wrote: >>>>>> On Thursday, 29 Dec 2016 10:34 PM, felix wrote: >>>>>>> On Thursday, 29 Dec 2016 10:27 PM, felix wrote: >>>>>>>> On Thursday, 29 Dec 2016 9:15 PM, felix wrote: >>>>>>>>> On Thursday, 29 Dec 2016 4:52 AM, Je�us wrote: >>>>>>>>>> On Wed, 28 Dec 2016 20:35:20 +1100, felix >>>>>>>>>> wrote: >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> On Wednesday, 21 Dec 2016 6:20 PM, felix wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>> Stupid windows 10 has spat it's dummy. I'll have to >>>>>>>>>>>> reinstall :( (from >>>>>>>>>>>> an image of the drive) >>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> I restored the drive from an image, and since it was several >>>>>>>>>>> moths old, >>>>>>>>>>> had to do umpteen updates, and some sofware installations. >>>>>>>>>>> the good news >>>>>>>>>>> is all the hardware is ok >>>>>>>>>> News? No, that isn't news. It was already established the >>>>>>>>>> hardware was >>>>>>>>>> fine. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> a thousand pardons your worship. I shall rewrite it just for you.. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> "I restored the drive from an image, but since it was several >>>>>>>>> moths old, I had to do umpteen updates, and some sofware >>>>>>>>> installations. and as had been previously determined, there are >>>>>>>>> no hardware issues, fortunately. and may I just take this >>>>>>>>> opportunity to express my profound gratitude to Geebus for his >>>>>>>>> invaluable contributions in solving this very difficult and >>>>>>>>> often perplexing issue, and without whose assistance it may >>>>>>>>> never have been solved" >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> better? >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> looks like I spoke too soon after all. I've been trying to >>>>>>>> format the drive that the faulty installation was on, but I >>>>>>>> can't get any computer to see it, either in an external USB >>>>>>>> case, or installed directly in a PC. seems it must be faulty. >>>>>>>> but because it can't be seen I can't do any diagnostics on it >>>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Acronis can find it but it can't format it >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> anyone know how I can test/check this drive? >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> I was able for format it in a windows 7 machine, but when I put it >>>>> in the win10 PC I get the error message "mbr error 1". >>>> >>>> Which suggests that you arent formatting it properly. >>>> >>>> How did you format it ? >>> >>> I had created the partition as GPT so I changed it to MBR and now I >>> can boot. but how do I format a drive that win10 doesn't see? >> >> >> it's ok. disk management I guess > > finally got it sorted out. seems partitioning in GPT was the problem. > maybe the bios couldn't handle it? So it was a meatware problem then - no surprise there >>> I've had nothing but trouble with windoze10!. life was so much >>> simpler/easier with XP you just put a drive in and it would find it >>> and ask you to format it Seems like you have fresh problems flown in daily, windows 10 is a perfectly stable system if handled in a competent manner.