Thank you everyone for the helpful comments. I will run it by Amazon support and see what they say.
Thanks again.
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Thank you everyone for the helpful comments. I will run it by Amazon support and see what they say.
Thanks again.
I just 'returned' under order history.
It claims to be 256 GB, everywhere, the drive, packet etc. but it turns out to be 32 GB. Why would a legit company sell 32GB as 256GB?
Fails h2testw.
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My apologies for the question being not directly related to Windows 10.
I bought a 256GB TeamGroup C175 flash drive from amazon on Black Friday. It was shipped and sold by amazon so was not...
It will pay off, even if I could just use it for Windows machines.
I was wondering if getting a universal charger a bad idea.
We have 4 Windows 10 machines and 2 Chomebooks. All require different chargers.
I am considering getting a universal charger so that I...
I am in an odd situation.
I have 8 hard drives varying from 250GB to 4TB. 4TB HDD has everything that I back up, and the small chunks of data from 4TB is copied on smaller hard drives just to...
So the issue is solved.
All it needed was to download storage drivers from the HP website, for Intel Rapid Storage Technology Driver v18.0.0.1135 Rev.A, extract them in a folder. There is a...
I came across DuckDuckGoog a while ago. I don't know how legit it is in using duckduckgo's privacy on google search results.
I actually started with the Media Creation Tool but that gave me exactly the same results. Hence I went with Rufus.
If I can't even find the disk, how do I delete the partition? (Apologies if this...
Just got this (HP 15-dy2xxx) refurbished machine.
Removed Bitlocker encryption. Disabled Secure boot. Changed BIOS to boot from USB device.
Made installation drive using Media Creation Tool...
Yes. The model is obscure though. Initially, couldn't figure out the details. Even now if I enter the model number, nothing much come up but if I enter some other code on the back, comes up with...
Thank you, both.
That is sneaky.
I never encountered this issue when I used Windows 10 upgraded from Windows 7. Have done many clean installs. The first screen asks for internet connection....
I just got refurbished HP 15-dy2xxx machine. When I booted Win 10 Home edition first it 'forced' me to login using Microsoft account. It wouldn't proceed otherwise. I finally gave in and logged in...
Thank you everyone. Really appreciate all quick comments.
I checked MAR list and half of them seemed to work with businesses only. A handful that had refurbs, the cost was not really competitive...
I am curious if anyone has a recommendation for reliable/trustworthy refurbished PC sellers other than the manufacturers and box stores/Newegg.
I checked eBay but most are seller refurbished...
Most of the times, I just 'sleep' the laptop. Yesterday, I 'slept' the laptop and didn't use all day. Today morning, tried to boot it, it felt like it did boot (fan running etc) but the screen...
Hello folks,
I have been trying to install Office 2019 Pro and every time I try I get the following error.
I tried another laptop with same specs and it installed flawlessly. I ran the...
Thanks a lot.
I checked BIOS and the SSD shows up, then went ahead to boot and guess what, it booted in SSD. Thats rather creepy. I rebooted the machine twice before just to make sure its not one...
I have (had) OS on SSD and secondary drive is old SSHD (with OS). When I installed SSD (Samsung Evo) a couple of years ago (2018 thanksgiving), I just put SSHD in the place of DVD drive.
Today,...
This question is related to restrictions set by parents for the kid.
My kid (11) plays a lot of Roblox but since he broke his phone screen (due to negligence), he has to use the PC to play the...
(I don't know if I am posting in right section. If not, pls feel free to move)
Hello folks,
My wife needs a 12-13 inch laptop for her work. She is always on the go so using desktop is not...
This is a neat idea. They are not available for the printer I have. Its officejet 6830.
I rarely print. All printing stuff is for the kid's school and project work.
Apologies for posting the thread in this subsection but I couldn't figure out where I should post. Admins, feel free to move the thread to appropriate section.
I am wondering if anybody refills...
Not too sure if I explained it correctly.
The colon usually comes from the title of the article, so when I copy the title and paste in file save box, it gets saved as colon but instead while...
Hello folks,
I download a lot of scientific publications and I try to name them the same as the title. These publications have a rather big tendency of using a colon (:) in the titles and...