Steve, the drive LED lights up and there's no sound coming from the hard drive . Yes I have decided to go to the easy route. Thanks all
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Steve, the drive LED lights up and there's no sound coming from the hard drive . Yes I have decided to go to the easy route. Thanks all
Sincere thanks to you guys for your help I'm going to take the easy way out at this point as I think it is beyond my ability to restore
Zbook, I don't know what these terms referred to or how to access them - V2 and DM
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Zbook, my reply seems not to have been posted. When I try to boot into bios I can't get...
Definitely does not show in disk management, in fact Windows will not even boot up if it is attached at start. Perhaps I should have mentioned that I actually caused this failure in the sense that I...
It's a consumer type all-in-one, not a independent enclosure with a hard drive slipped into it . I am sure it wasn't partitioned. I don't remember what letter it was assigned but I'm sure it was, as...
In Windows device manager the make and model of the hard drive is visible , and I've uninstalled and installed it there and tried updating the drivers , but Windows Explorer file manager can't see...
Thanks Dalchina, yes I'm aware of that and I just have to cross my fingers and hope for the best!
Cheers
Thanks. After several days of frustration I gave up and re-imaged the whole C Drive back to 6 weeks ago.
Cheers,
Rollo
Windows 10 -My on-board Ethernet 'card' stopped working. I added a new network card but the internet still isn’t working. So I booted the computer into a recovery CD and was able to connect to the...
Jimbo
I like the idea of getting rid of Logicals - never heard of that!
The thing about EasyBCD is interesing - that could explain why I had such a nightmare with this new HDD reinstallation.
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Dear Cereberus,
Yes I understand HOW to do it- I've done it many many times. Why question revolves around other issues, such as if the BCD is located on the 1st partition, for instance, and you...
But, but, but....WHY, Kbird??
After spending a month trying to get an Acronis backup re-installed when my HDD failed It came from a D drive and I couldnt get windows to swallow it. it wanted...
Much obliged Kbird, but I have put a lot of work into building this installation up so I wouldn't be willing to start again. I have many boot utilities available to me but I haven't had a Macrium...
Thank you Cereberus,
I do know how to do that having done it many times, but I have also done it and wound up with lots of problems - so I am looking for reasurance that given what I have said about...
I reinstalled Windows 10 on a new Hard Drive from an ISO but left a partition in front of the C Drive with 137 GB on it, plus another unallocated space at the very front of the drive with 500 MB....
Steve
I tried a older Macrium repair boot disk and it went thru its paces but the machine failed to boot anyway.
Steve
Well that drive is now working because as I said in my last update which you may have missed - I put it back into the PC, reinstalled Windows onto it and am going to run it in a simple way...
This has just gone from mysterious to insane. I woke up this morning intent upon a day off but I just wanted to do one thing- mount the HD via USB to my laptop and see whether it was recognizable and...
Thanks for your messages and patience. I left a message for you all at the end of this thread.
Rollo
Thanks for your messages and patience. I left a message for you all at the end of this thread.
Rollo
Thanks for your messages and patience. I left a message for you all at the end of this thread.
Rollo
To Kbird, Mannish and Steve:
Update#3
I understand that it should have posted up even without a hard drive and I can't explain that. But it does leave me suspicious about the motherboard.
So...
Kbird,
I assume that you missed two recent updates I made where I describe getting the Mb to post up and load various cds and DVD utilities and Windows installation disk-and failed yet failed to...
Update 2:
OK I took an hour off and came back did some more research and decided to take the HD out of the PC and attached it to my laptop and use command line to 'clean the disk and make it gpt /...
Major update: I decided to put data recovery on hold ($115 cost for upgraded version w more than 1gb) and decided to experiment by simply placing my new HDD into the machine and see what happened.
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