Sounds like it is junk anyway...might as well send it to me for disposal.

First you need to make disk 1 bootable by either adding a system reserved partition, make it active, use bcdboot to write boot files to it, or make the C: drive partition active, use bcdboot to write...

Is it a password in BIOS, or a windows password?

So the sleep v. shutdown comparison with regards to hard drives. Don't the hard drives spin down and park when the computer goes to sleep? It seems like keeping the hdd's spinning when in sleep...

What about TVs? Anything that can be turned on with a remote control really never turns off, always stays in standby.

Or just pull out the USB flash drive and reboot the computer.

I has nothing to do with the edition Home vs. Pro of Windows. The MCT always creates an ISO file or USB flash drive containing nearly all editions of Windows from Home up to Education editions:

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This is what I would do.
1. On the running Windows 10 system, run "reagentc /disable". This will move the recovery environment files to their storage location under C:\Windows\System32\Recovery....

And I did on my NAS until I replaced them with SSDs.

Start and stop cycles cause more wear and tear on HDDs than hours running.

According to MS you have a legitimate and permanent digital license. There is nothing you can do to change anything, except make yourself feel better if you really want to.

Svensus,
We need to see the results of slmgr /dlv run in a command prompt with Admin privileges. You don't need to edit anything, there is nothing uniquely identifying in the results. I've...

Pro 10 to Pro 11

yes.

Another way to install Windows 10 with another drive letter other than C: is to set up dual booting. You set up the partition to hold the second Windows 10 with the drive letter assigned that you...

The "sources thing" only affects clean installs. It will have no effect on the upgrade from Windows 7 that you want to do. The correct method is what the others have posted: do the upgrade to...

+1000!

Post #3 is the answer you are looking for - turn off UAC.

Is your disk gpt or mbr?

Personally, I don't mess with recovery partitions. I enable the recovery environment without creating a partition for it and it resides in C:\Recovery.

Absolutely correct, but there is another way to solve the problem. Delete the MSR partition. Move the EFI partition to the beginning of the disk. Recreate the 16 mb MSR partition after the EFI...

Hope it works the way you want it to!

No.

Try not generalizing when you shutdown with sysprep.

Well, I guess the answer to that is to shut power off to the house at the main breakers, water off at the main, and gas off at the meter.

Windows 8.1 test finally done. I had completely forgotten just how horrible Windows 8.1 was! Local account. Licensed with a retail product key. Fully up to date. Upgraded to 22H2 Windows 10. (I...