Re: Windose 10

From	felix <me@nothere.invalid>
Newsgroups	aus.computers
Subject	Re: Windose 10
Date	2016-12-30 17:35 +1100
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On Friday, 30 Dec 2016 1:27 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" <me@nothere.invalid> 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 
>>>>>>>>>> <me@nothere.invalid> 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. 

it now puts a nice picture of two giraffes instead of that black screen 
with the blue window, which I always hated.

> seems partitioning in GPT was the problem. maybe the bios couldn't 
> handle it?


>
>>
>>>
>>> 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
>>>
>>>>
>>>>> I'm trying to find how to fix it. if the second drive is not 
>>>>> installed the computer will boot fine.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
>


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Re: Windose 10 felix <me@nothere.invalid> - 2016-12-28 20:35 +1100
  Re: Windose 10 Jeßus <j@j.org> - 2016-12-29 04:52 +1100
    Re: Windose 10 felix <me@nothere.invalid> - 2016-12-29 21:15 +1100
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        Re: Windose 10 felix <me@nothere.invalid> - 2016-12-29 22:34 +1100
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            Re: Windose 10 felix <me@nothere.invalid> - 2016-12-29 23:41 +1100
              Re: Windose 10 "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2016-12-30 05:54 +1100
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                Re: Windose 10 Jeßus <j@j.org> - 2016-12-30 19:26 +1100
                Re: Windose 10 keithr0 <user@account.invalid> - 2016-12-30 23:54 +1000
                Re: Windose 10 felix <me@nothere.invalid> - 2016-12-30 17:35 +1100
                Re: Windose 10 "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2016-12-30 21:09 +1100
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        Re: Windose 10 felix <me@nothere.invalid> - 2016-12-30 13:25 +1100
        Re: Windose 10 Grumpy Tech <grumpytech07@gmail.com> - 2016-12-30 14:15 +1000
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