Try3: You may have missed it but I did say that my husband's WD Elements drive (4TB) has been flashing in exactly the same way for over a year so if it was defender it would be constantly scanning...
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Try3: You may have missed it but I did say that my husband's WD Elements drive (4TB) has been flashing in exactly the same way for over a year so if it was defender it would be constantly scanning...
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dalchina: I've followed the web page to find the item in question in Process Explorer but up to now its found absolutely NOTHING. Should I therefore take it that my...
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Many thanks for your responses.
dalchina: I am of course aware of Process Explorer but I've found it rather a daunting and complex program to use and so much data! To be honest I've...
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NOTE: My drives are NOT active and are recognised by OS and all flash at the same time
I use multiple external USB drives (SSDs) for storing my backup files on them. However, For many...
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I did a backup of all files/folders on my husband's MyBook and then formatted it. Only a quick format though so nothing on the tracks was touched just the MFT wiped. I started copying...
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Many thanks for all the replies. I said in my post that it had failed twice since I've been backing up my husband's PC. I've just done a check of the log and in fact it has failed six...
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A couple of times in recent month I've been backing up my husband's PC and at the end of a backup Macrium throws a wobbly and tells me the process has failed with a write error. The full error...
Malok
I've been running my PC and two others on UEFI for must be around four years now and as far as I am aware there's no way I can do that if CSM enabled. As I said all three of my flash drives...
Malok
The first thing I did when I switched on with the new mobo was to ensure that both Secure Boot AND TPM 2.0 were both enabled. My understanding is that Secure Boot cannot be enabled unless...
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Further to Paul's request that I keep the forum informed, I am happy to say that I have resolved this now by the simple(!) expedient of changing the mobo. After doing a lot of thinking and...
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Thanks very much for all responses to my initial post and whilst you've all done your best nothing so far has worked. To be honest I think we've all been looking in the wrong place. So far...
Tomdsr
Thanks very much for your reply. I'm not really sure but maybe 4 to 5 years possibly six. I get what you may be thinking but to be sure the drives were still OK I fired up my husbands PC...
Paul
Thanks once again for your prompt reply.
Finding out what doesn't work was referred to by someone I used to work with as "negative fault-finding" (yes, I worked in electronics). I think a...
Paul
Thanks for reply but I think I've made a decision on this in that the more I think about it the more I think its a problem with the mobo. Think about it - I can't boot up three of my...
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I have a problem I need to sort out as it involves my emergency flash drives. I have several flash drives for emergencies and three of them: Partition Assistant, Partition Wizard and ShadowMaker...
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If I understand all this correctly, I'm getting the distinct impression that the ONLY time when anything is done to the System Disk is when you are using the TPM to enable and use...
Samuria
Thanks for getting back to me. So are you saying that what I believed was true is in fact wrong in that you can remove the drive, change the drivers and reuse the drive elsewhere all...
Samuria
I know TPM is in Bios. Don't forget I did say had it enabled on my PC and to do that I had to go into my UEFI setup firmware. What I asked was "What does it do to the System Drive" and...
Thanks for getting back to me so quickly Pejole2165.
I've had a look at the site you mention but it still doesn't say whether the System Disk is encrypted or whether you should disable Secure...
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I'm becoming more and more confused over TPM and perhaps to a lesser extent on Secure Boot. Sure, I've got both enabled on my PC but exactly what do they do, particularly TPM? Yes, the TPM...
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I've been running my PC without Secure Boot enabled now for some time, maybe years, without any problems. However, I've been looking into what Secure Boot does and now want to enable it. Snag...
Thanks for the prompt replies. I think I get the drift here and it's pretty much as I thought. You don't have to enter the absolute path but just the first level if what you want to do is protect all...
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Advised on the Security Forum to post my query here so here goes.
For some time now neither my husband nor I have had an antivirus installed since we have depended entirely on Microsoft...
Thanks for your prompt reply. I found the thread you mentioned but didn't find what I was looking for in there. Anyway I'll take your advice and put my post in that thread and see what comes of it.
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For some time now neither my husband nor I have had an antivirus installed since we have depended entirely on Microsoft Defender teamed with Malwarebytes to protect our PCs. This was at the...