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Agree

If your friend neglect basic safety and maintenance procedures, your friend is asking for a disaster and he will sit and cry the day it comes.

My understanding is that...

The Dell xps 15 9550 is still a good laptop.
Most of us would like to have a new computer but most of us don't need one.
Why do you think you need a new laptop?

The main question is: What is the...

I still run Win 7 as my main OS as I think it is a better OS (It has everything I need, I know how to use it and never had any issue with it.)
To keep it up to date I use Single file with all...

Is the X220 Thinkpad the one described on your "My computer"? If it is, it is good computer, that can run Win 10 very well.
If it isn't, please give us all the hardware specs (fill in the second...

Please mark this thread as Solved

Older iphones has different socket used only by Apple so the new USB C cable isn't compatible with Iphone 6S.
Most chargers has a standard USB socket so you can use the charger with the iphone 6S...

It can be due to file corruption
Open a CMD window as administrator and type:
chkdsk c: /f
It will say your disk is in use and ask if you want to schedule to next start = yes
Restart
Pay...

I would say that your main drive is corrupted or even dead.
Boot from a Win 10 USB drive and on the first screen press shift+F10 to open a CMD window.
Run:
diskpart
list vol (identify the windows...

jumanji, as OP has mentioned that he had used the drive under Linux I was trying to guess if the drive was formatted as ext4 as ext4 partitions shows up in Windows as other without a letter assigned....

4 Ways to Cancel Windows 11 Update on Windows 10 (2022) - Appuals

It is hard to see the screen and to to understand the commands.
Make a register key export file and add it here as an attachment.

Was the data you want to recover installed in the drive under Windows or under Linux?

Drive 2 isn't formatted as NTFS (may have other format) and has no letter assigned to it.

Did you use it on Mac or Linux?

Is safe boot set on BIOS? Same for TPM?

May I suggest you download the Win 11 iso, mount it and run setup.

Why use Rufus?
- Prepare the USB drive:
diskpart
list disk (it will list all drives. Identify the USB drive number)
select disk n (replace n by the USB drive number obtained with list disk)...

If the mouse has an adjustable DPI up to 6000, try another setting, like 4000 DPI.
Some mouse has a different DPI depending the speed you move the mouse. Fast move has high DPI (to get where you...

:ditto:
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Not for me either. The problem begins with with OEM computers, specially laptops.
On those manuals (same manual for a wide range of computers) is common to find an item with "where applicable"...

The reason Fat32 is used for EFI partition is because it is compatible with Windows, Linux, Mac etc and NTFS isn't.

I don't agree that creating two partitions on the USB drive, one FAT32 and one NTFS, then move part of the mounted iso to the FAT32 and part to the NTFS partition is easier than split install.wim...

Create Bootable USB For Windows 10 Install.wim Larger Than 4GB

You can create a USB Win 10 installation drive using a Win 10 installation iso. Mont the iso, extract the files to a folder, add the ei.cfg file and copy all files an folders to the USB drive created...

The partition letters are assigned by the OS it is booting.
If you boot Win 7, the Win 7 partition will be C:.
If you boot Win 10, the Win 10 partition will be C:.

Please post a whole window...

One more reason to clean all the drive, convert it to GPT and format as NTFS

To clean the drive, open a CMD window as administrator and type:

diskpart
list disk (it will list all drives. Identify the drive number)
select disk n (replace n by the drive number obtained...