Five-year old Dell desktop with OEM Win10. Five-months ago, thought SSD C-drive was caput. After buying new SSD and installing Win10 on same, got the old SSD to work as an extra drive that wasn't...

Sorry for the mix-up, I said it was $184 for 2TB Crucial MX500 SSD; $84 was for the Black HDD. I decided it was worth the extra $100 as long as my PC holds out a while. Just arrived from Amazon,...

Hopefully, I won't regret another $184+tax sunk into a 5-year old Dell desktop for a 2TB Crucial MX500 SSD. Just ordered from Amazon.

I get it now. All my data is on a separate 1TB HDD. Turns out, I never needed the 240GB SSD I bought 5 years ago. 120GB appears more than enough to hold Win10 as well as the odd assorted files that...

Is there something negative with PNY SSDs? I didn't research SSDs, but thought PNY was a decent brand in general. Two factors influenced decision: PC is 5 years old so don't want to sink a lot of...

To wrap this one up ---- it was a bad (C:\) hard drive. The 240GB SanDisk SSD apparently died at five years of age. Picked up a 120GB PNY SSD at Best Buy for $19. Everything's good now. Now...

As noted, if nothing else, I got some more practice installing Windows. The before (I Drive), and after (E Drive) screenshots show little or no difference in the partitioning of the C Drive. Thanks...

In the picture above, it showed three partitions. Do I just delete all the partitions that show up?

Good news. I disconnected the second HDD. That alone seemed to get the ball rolling. Nonetheless, I switched back to UEFI Secure Boot Mode. If I recall correctly, that's where the PC was at before I...

Five year old Dell XPS 8900 desktop with OEM Win10. I immediately added a 240 GB SanDisk SSD as my (C:/) Windows drive and put (most) all my data on the OEM 1TB Seagate HDD (D:/ drive). Turns out...

I see Microsoft forces you to start Win10 with an account now. One more reason to be annoyed at them.

Since I was forced to insert Microsoft account login credentials, will the shop be able to...

@steve108 good idea. I probably do have some old drives awaiting disposal. In this case, Windows has some issues anyway. When I first tried to reinstall OEM Win10 with built-in HP software, wouldn't...

The drive passed Dell Diagnostics (see Post #4), is that sufficient? Since Ubutnu isn't recognizing additional USB flash drive, does that mean I can't copy any files off PC? Thanks.

You had a typo; can you please clarify? Thanks.

I have an HP laptop that needs a new powerport (receptacle where power cord plugs into laptop). Bringing it to a local shop. Although there doesn't seem to be any need for it, they asked for the...

Got Ubuntu "Try Now" working. Two issues.

Frequently freezes up and have to restart PC. Maybe from letting it sit unused for a few minutes, not sure. Mouse operates OK, but everything else...

I'm good with the Win 10 installation USB. The tutorial referenced does require Rufus for the Ubutnu bootable USB drive. That's where I'm stuck. Thanks.

Standby, think I may have figured it...

Sorry if I'm being dense. Guess most of my Windows troubleshooting skills developed since Win 3.4 got rusty with Win 10 mostly trouble-free for 5 years. All the things I used to know about...

See Post #4 for Dell Diagnostics results.

I back up weekly or so with an external drive, but neglected to put the Internet history on it and possibly some unknown useful items from the C drive. 5 years ago, when new, I created a clone with...

I've given up hope of recovering my Internet browser history. I used media creator and have a Win 10 installation USB drive ready to go.

When I bought the Dell desktop 5 years ago, I bought a...

Not sure if I'm doing this correctly. Put the WIN10XPE file on clean thumb drive. Switched to Legacy Boot. Highlighted USB on Boot list and hit Enter. Got MBR error. Was also going to try burning...

Not doing so good. No option to boot off thumb drive so couldn't run Sea Tools. Did run Dell Diagnostics--all's well there, log attached. Safe Mode won't work. Tried to repair Windows, saving...

My apologies for not following the BSOD log instructions/version number but I am unable to get past the BSOD. My Dell XPS 8900 is about 5 years old with OEM Win10. I have never reinstalled Win10 so...

Thank you for that detailed and reasonably easy to understand explanation and particularly for your bottom line summary. Also, thanks to all that responded, I learned a lot from this thread (my first...