Here’s a bit of confusing UD to me. After trying a # of times to make a image with the built in Win. process with total failure I tried the following: totally formatted a 1.5 Seagate drive with “C”...

Thanks for the info. I’ve recently spent a lot of time trying Win. 10 own “built in” backup and restore operation because I’m a back up freak with too many hard drive partitions with drive images of...

That says it all because I'm a back up freak.

TYIA

I did try the 32 bit mode and I know it’s got a ram limit. The bios is set correctly. It’s the processor as shown in another thread. I’m presently running 7 & 8 with no difficulty.

Reread my post, it has nothing to do with ram version, it's got to do with the processor not having a security feature.

Let me say that Win 10 is so new how without asking at places like this is one to learn. For instance I’m running Win 7 & 8 with the latest updates and Win 10 will not install because my Intel Core 2...

I was taught not to love anything that cannot love you back.

Thanks this route worked for the download portion of the upgrade.

I also am wondering how/why this box is operating fine with 7&8. I thought if that’s OK it should also be fine with 10. I just saw a review with Walt Mossberg and it’s OK but doesn’t seem ready for...

Stupid question, is the IOS free also? For my usage today I can’t cost justify (I’m frugal!) the cost of a new OS because the one in there is working fine most of the time.

I looked it up but was unable to locate it. I went through all the opening options but I don't like messing around in the bios because of past incidents, besides the aging process has kicked in. ...

I’m running an Intel Core 2 E6600 @2400MHZ on a Gigabyte S-series P35C-DS3R. Using Win 7 and 8 updated to last update into a WD 2t Black. This unit runs OK normally if I don’t mess with it like...