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W10 won't boot!
Keith Nuttle wrote:
On 8/2/2017 12:47 PM, Paul wrote: Good Guy wrote: On 02/08/2017 10:15, wrote: Anyway - can anyone suggest somethng he can try in order to make it usable again? These days you need to have a degree in rocket science to repair a computer!!. Agreed. The OS I'm typing this in, still isn't "fixed". And I've been working on an intermittent problem with it for more than a year. 1) Glimmer of hope when RAM tested bad. But problem re-appeared a number of days after the new RAM was installed. RAM still tests good. 2) Yes, the OS has been reinstalled already. The worst case symptom, is my OS would crash, after reading around 15GB of data from the hard drive. Making operation a bit like spinning a roulette wheel. Today, I can read more data than that, without a problem. But I don't really think my symptoms have gone away. It'll come back. It always comes back. It's just a matter of time. Paul I hope you have it all backed up There are plenty of backups here. I got another 4TB 5900RPM Seagate drive for $164 and half-filled it just doing OS partition backups. At least 500GB of that is VMs. Paul |
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Using d/l of free W10 now ( W10 won't boot!)
"Wolf K" wrote in message ...
I d/l the free W7 to W10 ISO, burned the DVD, but did not install W10. If I use it to install W10 now, will it still do the auto-magic licensing thing? The 'auto-magic licensing thing' applies to a device and only the same device that previously had Windows 10 installed(free upgrade, retail or OEM install). There was no free W7 to Win10 ISO. Just a Win10 ISO. -- ....winston ms mvp windows 2007-2016, insider mvp 2016-2018 |
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W10 won't boot!
In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Wed, 02 Aug 2017 19:45:34 +1000, Lucifer
Morningstar wrote: On Wed, 02 Aug 2017 05:15:00 -0400, wrote: I have a remote friend whose W10 drive will no longer boot. He is Could you give more details about what happens when he tries to boot? Does anything show up on the screen? What? Did he do anything unusuual just before the problem started? upset because he has no image backup. He should be. He has no W10 install disk since he got his W10 via MS's 'free' upgrade from W7 - no longer available of course. He can read the drive, and the files/folders thereon, from an old W7 drive. Anyway - can anyone suggest somethng he can try in order to make it usable again? I thought Hirens might, but I guess not. If nothing else he can download the free Windows 10 ISO from Microsoft and do a fresh install. Microsoft should recognise his machine as being validated and not ask for an install key. I was going to say that, but in addition to a fresh install, I believe he can install it over his current version so he won't have to fiddle with installing programs or replacing data. Is that not true? This might well not apply here but Paul isn't reading my thread from the 27th ": can i boot win10 from USB drive" he recommended the Macrium Reflect Rescue Media, and it made my clone bootable in one step, with 4 check marks. |
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W10 won't boot!
On Wed, 02 Aug 2017 22:32:50 -0400, micky
wrote: In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Wed, 02 Aug 2017 19:45:34 +1000, Lucifer Morningstar wrote: On Wed, 02 Aug 2017 05:15:00 -0400, wrote: I have a remote friend whose W10 drive will no longer boot. He is Could you give more details about what happens when he tries to boot? Does anything show up on the screen? What? Did he do anything unusuual just before the problem started? upset because he has no image backup. He should be. He has no W10 install disk since he got his W10 via MS's 'free' upgrade from W7 - no longer available of course. He can read the drive, and the files/folders thereon, from an old W7 drive. Anyway - can anyone suggest somethng he can try in order to make it usable again? I thought Hirens might, but I guess not. If nothing else he can download the free Windows 10 ISO from Microsoft and do a fresh install. Microsoft should recognise his machine as being validated and not ask for an install key. I was going to say that, but in addition to a fresh install, I believe he can install it over his current version so he won't have to fiddle with installing programs or replacing data. Is that not true? I believe so. This might well not apply here but Paul isn't reading my thread from the 27th ": can i boot win10 from USB drive" he recommended the Macrium Reflect Rescue Media, and it made my clone bootable in one step, with 4 check marks. Interesting. He should probably fetch any important files before attempting any recovery. |
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W10 won't boot!
In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Thu, 03 Aug 2017 19:20:26 +1000, Lucifer
Morningstar wrote: On Wed, 02 Aug 2017 22:32:50 -0400, micky wrote: In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Wed, 02 Aug 2017 19:45:34 +1000, Lucifer Morningstar wrote: On Wed, 02 Aug 2017 05:15:00 -0400, wrote: I have a remote friend whose W10 drive will no longer boot. He is Could you give more details about what happens when he tries to boot? Does anything show up on the screen? What? Did he do anything unusuual just before the problem started? upset because he has no image backup. He should be. He has no W10 install disk since he got his W10 via MS's 'free' upgrade from W7 - no longer available of course. He can read the drive, and the files/folders thereon, from an old W7 drive. Anyway - can anyone suggest somethng he can try in order to make it usable again? I thought Hirens might, but I guess not. If nothing else he can download the free Windows 10 ISO from Microsoft and do a fresh install. Microsoft should recognise his machine as being validated and not ask for an install key. I was going to say that, but in addition to a fresh install, I believe he can install it over his current version so he won't have to fiddle with installing programs or replacing data. Is that not true? I believe so. That would be my choice. This might well not apply here but Paul isn't reading my thread from the 27th ": can i boot win10 from USB drive" he recommended the Macrium Reflect Rescue Media, and it made my clone bootable in one step, with 4 check marks. Interesting. He should probably fetch any important files before attempting any recovery. That's true. All his data, all his email, even his newsgroups data files ;-) I have a list of files used by Firefox for its data, and I back them up with all the other data |
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