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  1. Thread: HDD Arrangements by Exspextations
    Forum: Installation and Upgrade
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    My Thanks to Brink and fdegrove for the...

    My Thanks to Brink and fdegrove for the clarifications - I do not understand the subtleties of booting via UEFI / Legacy and, as a simple user, I am not sure I should have to know or worry about...
  2. Security System Umm. If that is the case, not sure what happened...

    Umm. If that is the case, not sure what happened when I did this then, but I have managed to get round the problem as follows:

    After setting my Bios to legacy boot I was able to boot from the USB...
  3. Thread: HDD Arrangements by Exspextations
    Forum: Installation and Upgrade
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    Thanks to NavyLCDR and Spapakons for the...

    Thanks to NavyLCDR and Spapakons for the suggestions. After playing around with the BIOS for a while I found an option to set legacy boot as 1st boot option which allowed me to boot from the flash...
  4. Security System Can't do a clean install of Win10 as Drive 0 Partition 4 locked

    Following advice on another thread I attempted a clean install of Windows 10 as my HDD had become fragmented with numerous spurious partitions that were eating up space unnecessarily. The process...
  5. Thread: HDD Arrangements by Exspextations
    Forum: Installation and Upgrade
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    I desperately need help! I started the clean...

    I desperately need help! I started the clean install from a USB recovery drive as recommended and deleted all the unwanted partitions leaving a single us allocated disk space. Windows then created...
  6. Thread: HDD Arrangements by Exspextations
    Forum: Installation and Upgrade
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    I really appreciate the support given to try and...

    I really appreciate the support given to try and resolve my HDD issues, but I am struggling: I have a USB boot disk for my current Win10 version 10240, but when I do a search of for BOOT.WIM the file...
  7. Thread: HDD Arrangements by Exspextations
    Forum: Installation and Upgrade
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    I was advised in one of the posts to my HDD...

    I was advised in one of the posts to my HDD issues to use Macrium Reflect free v6 - which is what I installed for home use. I can't see anything in the options supported by this version that says...
  8. Thread: HDD Arrangements by Exspextations
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    I'm afraid I fell at the first fence: tried...

    I'm afraid I fell at the first fence: tried making an image of my HDD to my NAS with Macrium Reflect, but the program does not recognize my NAS shares. I set up Network Logon under the tools button...
  9. Thread: HDD Arrangements by Exspextations
    Forum: Installation and Upgrade
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    Apologies for what are probably stupid questions,...

    Apologies for what are probably stupid questions, but if I make an image of the entire disk, when I copy this back to the hard disk won't it simply recreate all the partitions and associated data I...
  10. Thread: HDD Arrangements by Exspextations
    Forum: Installation and Upgrade
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    My thanks to Word Man and NavyLCDR for your...

    My thanks to Word Man and NavyLCDR for your suggestions.

    I will 'bite the bullet' and do a clean install as suggested, but can't spare the time until next weekend - will let you know the...
  11. Thread: HDD Arrangements by Exspextations
    Forum: Installation and Upgrade
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    It would appear that this is the route I may have...

    It would appear that this is the route I may have to take. However, I rolled back my Win 10 a couple of days ago to Build 10240 after the April Patch Tuesday installed Build 1511 that completely...
  12. Thread: HDD Arrangements by Exspextations
    Forum: Installation and Upgrade
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    The Reagentc /info data shows the recovery image...

    The Reagentc /info data shows the recovery image location to be partition 8 which in my post to NavyLCDR is the 24 GB PVR_DRV. I presume therefore that I can delete partitions 1, 2, 3, 4 and 6...
  13. Thread: HDD Arrangements by Exspextations
    Forum: Installation and Upgrade
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    Had look at the partitions using Partition Wizard...

    Had look at the partitions using Partition Wizard Free. I could see the data in all of the partitions, with the exception of the partition sitting between my C; and D: drives which show 0 bytes of...
  14. Thread: HDD Arrangements by Exspextations
    Forum: Installation and Upgrade
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    Thanks for the suggestion - I ran reagentc / info...

    Thanks for the suggestion - I ran reagentc / info as administrator. A command line screen opens and after a few minutes a bunch of text is written, but the command line screen immediately closes, so...
  15. Thread: HDD Arrangements by Exspextations
    Forum: Installation and Upgrade
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    I have a similar issue - the hard disk of my Win...

    I have a similar issue - the hard disk of my Win 8 Lenovo desktop was originally divided between a C:\, and D:\ drive and the OEM recovery drive (1000 MB). Since upgrading to Windows 10 the HD now...
  16. Thread: What did Windows 10 update today? by Exspextations
    Forum: Windows Updates and Activation
    Replies 7 Views 3,262

    Problems caused by Microsoft updates

    Thanks for the feedback - it appears that my issues where part of a long list of problems caused by Microsoft's April updates KB3147461 and KB3147458 (see: MS forum). I solved the problem by using...
  17. Thread: What did Windows 10 update today? by Exspextations
    Forum: Windows Updates and Activation
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    I have also had major updates over the past...

    I have also had major updates over the past couple of days that have made undesired changes to the way my PC works: Cumulative update to Windows 10 1511 x64 (home edition) - KB3140741 and KB3147458...
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    DVD drive works, but still not listed under 'This PC' in Explorer

    Initially when I upgraded to Win10, my DVD drive was not listed under the Device Manager. As suggested on this site I added the line:

    reg.exe add...
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