Thanks for the replies. I sort of get it now. Once I get it working I'll understand it more.

Now I'll try to install Ventoy again. What isn't clear in their install instructions is whether it...

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I've been trying to install Ventoy into my new 3.0 64GB USB thumbdrives and it's not working so far, by following the Ventoy site's instructions. I mainly want to install the Windows 10...

a. - I searched about how to use the Media Creation Tool and found it didn't matter if a USB thumbdrive or an SD card in a USB flash card adapter was for used for this. When I plug it into the laptop...

Thanks for your replies and suggestions. I'll try to give quick answers to each of you and some answers may overlap with similar suggestions.
spunk: I ran chkdsk c:s /r and although the original...

Been fighting this problem since it happened over week ago and I'm out of ideas since I don't have your knowledge. Need your help now.

My Dell XPS8910 running Windows 10 v22H2 was running fine and...

Thanks. I looked into your recommendation and it's already checked to allow.

The power setting for my local C: drive is set to turn off the screen after 30 min and Never turn off the C: drive. I...

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I'm running the latest version of Windows 10. I have a new INATECK FD2005 external dual drive dock connected via USB to my Dell XPS 8910 desktop. Everything is working fine and the dock...

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I have external hard drives for data and system backups. I spend most of my time online or sending emails and only occasionally need to open a data file in my external drive. The external...

Success! It's great to have everything back as God intended. I'll be cloning my C: drive and performing a system backup too.

Great info. on your post - very helpful!

Thanks to all for your help.

Thanks for the suggestions. I thinks it's fixed. However I don't completely understand what happened so here's what I did:
1- In CMD (Admin) I entered "Dism /Online /Cleanup-image /Restorehealth"....

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Being a novice with computers I thought to ask you all before I try something which may make things worse. I've neglected to tun SFC Scannow for a while and I've now fun it a few times as...

I've had my current main desktop PC since 2009 and it came with Win 7 which I upgraded to Pro. I used PCMover to migrate my programs from a Dell 8600 laptop. It did a good job migrating and actually...

Sorry for the delay in replying - I never got a notification after the first one.

Those are great suggestions, thanks! I've heard of RAID but I think I'll keep it simple for now with scheduled...

Thanks for the reply.

The idea is to leave the stock 1TB HDD with just Win 10 OS on it. Then another, separate HDD with only my software on it. Then a third and separate HDD for data only. Each of...

From my latest posts you can see I've had my share of issues to deal with and thanks to you all here and other communities, I've managed to power through unto workable solutions. Still, the stress,...

Ok. No, I've never tried with a usb thumbdrive. I'm not sure where that boot option is in the startup order and I can't check to see it. But I can try it. What do I do? I have the Macrium rescue Win...

Are you suggesting that as a test or workaround solution? I don't think it would be a solution since purpose of the rescue disk is for in the event of local HHD or system failure, I would use it to...

I just tried Esc again, both tapping it and holding it down, after pressing the start up button and before I start up and continually until the login screen. In every case the result is the same...

Thanks NavyLCDR.

After entering the command in the CMD (Admin) window, I got two lists. The first "Usage: Shutdown" shows a list of commands and an explanation of what they do. The second one...

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I have an Asus U46E laptop (circa 2011) originally purchased with Windows 7 Ultimate 64Bit and problem free. It's since been upgraded to Windows 10 Pro 64Bit v.1607 and in all respects but...

Is it no longer possible to revert back to Windows 7 via repair install, then upgrade again to Win10?

Thanks very much. Still, I feel defeated. If SFC's scan report in the CBS log identifies all the files which are problematic, can't the problem files which are not allowing the repair program to...

So if I run the setup.exe from the mounted Win10_1511_English_x64.iso that will run a clean install or a repair install? Also what is "YMMV"?

What's new is my plan was to try the Safe Mode repair this morning. After a couple hours of it working normally, the system crashed. This is not unusual as it does this after a few days anyway of...

Ok. I have a CBS.log file for when I tried the install. I Don't see the SFC log file in CBS. There is a CBS.persist_.....log. Both seem to state about "installing" and files for repair. It's pretty...