Re: Windose 10

From	"Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	aus.computers
Subject	Re: Windose 10
Date	2016-12-30 21:07 +1100
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"felix" <me@nothere.invalid> wrote in message 
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> 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?

Using anything else than can see 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

Not always.

>>> 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 "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2016-12-30 05:54 +1100
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                Re: Windose 10 keithr0 <user@account.invalid> - 2016-12-30 23:54 +1000
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                Re: Windose 10 "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2016-12-30 21:09 +1100
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