With several days passed since I turned off the touchscreen, the problem doesn't seem to be raising its ugly head. Thank you to all who helped steer me through the swamp. And thanks for all the...

As it turned out, this seems to be the problem.

I went to a local shop and asked about having the touchscreen replaced. When he found out it was a 2-n-1 Dell, he told me replacing the...

maineb - There's more than one cursor occasionally. The real problem is that there are many little circles that flicker and come and go and they capture the cursor, making it difficult, and...

bro67 - The problem and the computer dropping don't necessarily coincide, though I won't rule out the possibility. The screen itself is actually fine. It's the very bottom part where it attaches...

I dropped the laptop and there's a break in the lower right corner below the screen. Could that be the source? How would I verify that? I'm in Maine, so the DELL hardware is under warranty (but not...

What is the difference between a format and a wipe? I assume the wipe overwrites the MBR but the format does not?
What is the best utility to scan the boot sector?
Is there a utility that would...

I've had several threads related to this problem but I'm going to see if I can summarize everything to this point.

About last July, I started having strange cursor problems. The cursor would jump...

Updates are turned off for a month. I'll download the tool. Thanks.

I just did a repair install on my Windows 10 Dell laptop. This was the second time, as the first time I ended up with the same problem I had to begin with. This time I turned off updates, but...

I repeated the repair install, but this time disconnected from the internet. Once it was completed, I paused updates for 35 days. So far, no problems with the bouncing cursor, but I've been staying...

I went through the entire tutorial 2 or 3 times before posting. As I went through it again, I realized I should have just paid attention to the written part, as the video threw in a lot of unneeded...

I started the repair install and was notified that all my programs would need to be reinstalled, and there's a bunch of them, including several Microsoft programs. I'm having a hard time figuring...

MR image just finished. Ready to download the ISO for the repair install.

What's the function of the four partitions? One at least is unformatted and one is FAT32, one is C: and the one in red is...what? I assume that one shouldn't be touched.

I have to get my Windows...

I posted a question and just deleted it because I figured out the answer. Now I have another question. As I'm looking at the MR menu for imaging, I see that one of the partitions is my C: drive,...

So what you're saying is don't make separate partitions, just folders. What's the downside for separate partitions? How much would that slow things down?

Yes, the 2 TB drive is an external drive. I didn't include that in the disk management capture, those it was in the MR capture.
I don't have any use for the factory reset and Dell includes a bunch...

I just got my 2TB external drive and partitioned it, making 2/3 of the drive for images. Then I downloaded Macrium Reflect and ran it. Apparently I hadn't paid attention when partitioning the...

Thanks, that's something I hadn't considered. Will do.

I haven't completely ruled out an inplace upgrade. I'm considering all options and calculating how much time I want to put into this. A clean install takes much longer, so that's definitely a...

Great! That's good to know.

I seem to have a corrupted OS and since MS has been prompting me for quite a while to upgrade, I'm considering doing that. DELL has instructions on how to upgrade in place, but I'd prefer to do a...

When making a disk image--you've said you do that nightly--doesn't that take up a good deal of storage? How does one go about setting up such a process?

Thank you. All I saw before was the index. This is much clearer.

No, I'd rather not do a clean install, but before I do anything I'll need to backup the files on my resident hard drive. I'll...

You said: "For that you need an iso file (or an installation disk) for Win 10 of the same major build as you have - use the MS media creation tool as per the tutorial
(Click Tutorials above- it's on...