Try3 and dalchina.
Thank you both for your very quick and even more helpful replies, you have answered the questions I had but did not know how to ask them correctly, you are quite right Denis I...

Back from the weeks break. While away I’ve been thinking about what I’m doing, and do I want to do it after I’d read up on the post kindly linked to by TRY3 and see the sense in:
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Thank you both. I had better close this PC down now otherwise I will be in severe trouble! :(

I plan on reporting total success end of next week.......

Sorry for being so cautious, having made assumptions and guesses in the past and bricking my PC I now make sure of what I am doing in the hope nothing goes wrong.....

I have attached a copy of the...

Thanks for your input dalchina and Denis.
I got the impression that it HAD to be CD/DVD disc from the Popup as USB was not an option. I would much prefer the USB route.

I downloaded yesterday...

Nothing there.

Thank you, looks like I have some reading to do. Unfortunately I am away next week so will not be able to explore the options until my return. I will do what I can today as long as the boss does not...

Hope these are okay! I have just created the RM Rescue disc as below so at least that is now sorted. Why Windows repair does not want to play ball I have no idea.........:confused:

Just spotted...

Thank you for your replies. I don't have a W10 disc so thought, as the popup did not state the Windows version perhaps it was a common file within most versions, obviously not. ( I do have a new MCR...

My last system repair disc was created in 2015 so thought it about time to create a new one. I am using Win 10 latest version fully updated. 22H2 build 19045.2728
I updated via the free upgrade from...

Thanks for your advice, added the drive letter and the drive is now seen.

I have 4 External WD Passport USB drives connected to my PC, but 'This PC' shows only 3, however Disk Management shows as 4 as does Device Manager as per screen shots. I plugged the missing drive...

Before I retired I did a lot of work on my PC at home. Now I don't, so no need for so much data to keep track of.
Last night I removed 3 HDD and the SSD, booted the PC and the tortoise was running...

Wow, that would be good, I can keep my HDD C:\ and also have the same on the SSD. I have an Orico drive switcher installed so I can change drives at the push of a button. It says HDD on the face...

Hi I thought the SSD would be better but so far it has caused me nothing but aggravation. I am not after blisteringly fast but a lot faster than this HDD would be nice.

Back on the PC here :party: it has rebooted the desktop quite few times but is still working.....

Below is the dick management screenshot.
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Is there anything within (or outside) Windows...

Hi All.
Just as I thought it could not get any worse, it did.
The reinstall of W7 today was fine until the end when the PC rebooted and went back to the beginning of installing W7, in other words...

Thanks for your reply. Hopefully I can advise!
I have just the SSD Drive in the PC, I started the PC, hoping it would boot into widows. That did not happen, All the screen showed was the initial...

Unfortunately not. As in a previous post I was advised I should not have tried to install with other drives in place as Boot files could be installed but not on the correct drive.
Today I removed...

Not sure how to proceed now, I have removed all the drives except for the new SSD. Yesterday I installed onto this my Win7 Pro with its license code, then used my previous Win 10 ISO to update it. I...

Hi.
Thanks for the reply.
The build # is where the install finished today, I tried to install using my W10 iso but that failed as I had upgraded from W7 so no code to enter. I then reinstalled my...

Following on from the Thread below 'Is my Disk dead or just very ill?'

I thought until this morning that the problem wa fixed, Oh no, far from it. Again did not boot.
So, having a new SSD drive...

Cancelled the MR restore, then used the CDI cd but that did nothing.
I inserted my Windows 10 installation disk tried to Reset the PC but the message came up " The windows drive is locked, unlock...

Thank you, some options to try and I have another PC (and this hopeless laptop). I will install CDI on a cd and try that once MR has finished it's task.

If it's very unlikely to restore my Win 10...

That would be great, if I can boot into windows. The MR restore program has been going for about 7 hours so far and it now states
Overall Progress 56%
Current Progress 6%

I would be delighted...