HB wrote:
"Patrick" wrote in message
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On 16/04/2018 07:15, HB wrote:
So the Tosh sits here until I decide what to do with it. We're thinking
of
taking it to a tech' to replace the HD and OS with W7. Is that possible
does anyone know, or does MS control what they can install? Forcing the
sale of W10?
You appear to be quite able to remove the HDD so you can easily install
a/the new one (though you would need to transfer the Tosh's HDD) case to
the neww one.
You allready have a license for W7 via the OEM (Toshiba), said license is
in the form of the set of numbers (5 groups of five digits) that is on the
label underneath the machine,
(?????-?????-?????-?????).

It turns out, the wife said, that there were problems with the memory also.
It wouldn't release closed pages online and needed to be rebooted or those
pages closed manually using task manager (alt/ctrl/del). She doesn't
believe the HD was the only problem making the Tosh so slow. We decided to
give it to someone who wants to spend the time and money to fix it or have
it fixed. This was quite an experience.

That's what memtest.org is for.

Downloads are half-way down the page.

Imgburn would convert the tiny ISO from the .ISO.zip
into a bootable CD. And the CD boots into memtest with
the blue-colored screen.

It can take up to two hours for "Pass=1" to prove
it completed a basic test. Test #5 usually uncovers
issues, if you're in a big rush, and you can select
just Test #5 in the interest of time.

The test will run forever, unless you stop it.

Pressing esc causes the computer to reboot.
Remove the media if you don't plan on using memtest
again - as soon as memtest is loaded and the blue colored
screen appears, you can remove the media. It doesn't read
from the media, once the test is started.

Paul