Evening Andre.

Hello Charlie

Good morning Ken.

It's a dry and bright day here, but a little cooler than the seasonal average at 11°C/52°F this afternoon. Looks like I've seen the last of the showers for a while.


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Good morning Borg.

Best wishes for your wife, hope it works out for the best in the long run.

Good morning Josey.

I'm sorry for your loss.

Was her account a Microsoft account? It's not possible to reset the PIN or password for a Microsoft account, if it was a Local account then you can reset its password.
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Hard Disk Sentinel would fit the bill. It's often on free giveaway, see the discussions earlier in this thread, posts #25-#31.

Morning.

I've always wanted to see/hear that, we don't have cicadas in the UK.

Morning TC

Hello Charlie

Afternoon Andre, in the low 50's here, my shower are only rain.

Good morning Josey.

Good morning Mike, it's a day of sunshine and showers here with afternoon temps in the mid 50's.

MIG acts as a filter on the local file system, whether that's an internal drive or a usb external one. The only way a network share can be protected is when it is being shared by a Windows PC that...

The Pending Sector Count (C5) raw value indicates sectors that may (or may not) have an issue. It is only a possibility that the sector may be bad, it needs to be tested to determine if it is a true...

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The Raw values are the significant ones. There were two Pending Sectors, ones that had been flagged as (possibly) being weak sectors. The full format allowed the drive's internal controller to test...

Good, I suspected that it might. Pending Sectors are only potentially weak, and can easily be just a false alarm. A few years back I bought a used external HDD that had some 100 or so Pending...

It still could be an ID problem, it certainly was in the example I quoted. The ID was incorrect, so reagentc /enable couldn't find a suitable recovery partition. In that case it's fall-back...

Morning.

Doesn't look like I'll see the 70's any time this month - darn, I'll be lucky if I even see the 60's.....

Hello Charlie

A quick format does NOT reset the pending sector count. You MUST perform a Full format in order to test every sector.

You can remove all partitions in one go using Diskpart. List the disks, make...

Good morning Ken.

Sad to hear that. I've seen off my parents, my wife, and quite a few of my old work collogues by now. It's never easy. :grouphug:


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