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Old October 25th 17, 01:27 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-8
Mayayana
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Default Asus X550J laptop

"Paul" wrote

| Best practice, is for the encrypting party to have
| a "password floppy" or equivalent. You can make a
| kind of recovery media, that allows decrypting the
| partition in question.
|

I don't have any reason to think it's encrypted. But
up until now I've managed to preety much avoid NTFS
and newer boot systems. If I hook up a FAT32 disk
to any computer I can read it. This disk is not showing up.
So I'm wondering what system/software I might use
just to check for valid partitions and test the drive.
It has to be on a system, since the DVD drive boot is
not working. What would the tech people who retrieved
personal files used?

| The manual shows it has Secure Boot. You would think the
| choices would be "Yes" or "No", but AptIO apparently
| supports "Custom".

I didn't notice such a field. I guess I need to get
up to date on these newer complications.

| If you set Secure Boot Control to [Disabled], as seen on page 81
| of 0409.pdf, then maybe you can get your OS media to boot. For
| whatever thing you have in mind. If it's a UEFI BIOS, then
| perhaps you'd want to try OS media which is Hybrid and supports
| both Legacy and UEFI. On your Win7 disc, you might want to try an
| SP1 flavor of disk, as it might stand a better chance of working.
| I don't know the status of Windows 7 when it comes to booting
| on stuff like this.
|

I have a Win7 disk. But I'm not clear how that might be
useful. Boot it in the DVD drive and then...?

I *don't* have a Win8 disk and so far the owner hasn't
found an activation key, so I'm not sure I could reinstall
that way, even if I get the DVD boot working. (I thought
the "genuine license" sticker was always on these things,
but this laptop doesn't have it.)

What about the phenomenon of gettting bumped? The
boot typically goes through checking for disk errors,
fixing errors, etc. but then either goes blank or goes to
BIOS. At that point the hard disk has, at least sometimes,
disappeared from the BIOS. Is it possible that's actually
a boot or software issue and not a faulty SATA connection?


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