Thanks I will install the 1Tb SSD hopefully all will go well I will update this thread with later with the results. This is an excellent forum, hats off to everyone who assists those of us...

I want to thank everyone who tried to help me fix my SSD issue, I donÂ’t have much experience in solving computer problems but after following several Utube tutorials without success I attempted to...

My HP laptop running Windows 10 home no longer boots after suffering from a BSOD months ago which I never managed to resolve after many hours of effort and reading tutorials etc. I am now going to...

Hi guys, apologies if I am posting in the wrong section. I have an Windows 10 home HP laptop with a very small ssd drive which I admit is filled to the maximum. It now has an inaccessible boot load...

Hi, I bought a new HP laptop about 3 months ago, and initially I was using the Edge browser and Windows Defender with Malwarebytes free version. I started getting full page adds popping up on the...

Hi, I have now created a simple volume on the drive which is great, I have a stack of photos I want to back up. Being a fully paid up member of the novice club I thought Diskpart was a program I...

HI Ken,

I discovered Diskpart was not on my Laptop so I installed and ran it, and it does in fact find and identify the External Drive as DISK 1.
Next I ran the Disk Management program again...

Hi Ken,

Just checked the Disk Management and the drive is not shown.

regards,ron

Hi, I fitted the hard drive from my old PC into an external enclosure. I plugged it into my Win 10 Laptop and backed up some files I wanted to keep, so far so good. I now want to use the drive as...

Hi, I created the Windows 10 usb installation stick as suggested above by cerebus then tried to boot from that, but I am getting an error message "startup unable to run, reboot pc and try again." I...

Thanks cerebus I will try this way and let you know if it worked
Regards
Ron

Hi, I have an Acer Aspire 5542G laptop and did the upgrade to Win 10 Home 64 bit. Now I want to reinstall Win 10 back to factory fresh settings. I used the Recovery reset but this failed with a...

Thanks davidhk and rolandjs for replies. Windows 10 was giving me a load of problems so for the moment i have went back to Win 7, my laptop has a good collection of junk programs I have downloaded in...

Hi to all forum members. I have just now upgraded my Windows 7 Acer Aspire 5542G laptop to Windows 10. I do know that I can revert back to Windows 7 and then re-activate Windows 10 at a later date....