On the contrary I'd say! I really appreciate all the shared thoughts and time spent looking at all this. So BIG thanks from me. It's amazing...
Hi Christer I understand that that's how it works. I'm just not clear on how it manifests... So, it he/she is lying/misinformed/etc and DOES...
Hi Bill, and thanks for the response. Since posting, I have been looking into it further. I found this page where you can enter a key to...
Hi all I've just recently bought a Win7 Pro RETAIL; used from eBay. The seller has good feedback, and I chatted a fair amount with him through...
Perhaps you're right Christer. With a million and one questions and uncertainties swimming in my head regarding my Win7 migration, "going off on...
@Christer - It's a full Retail version that he is selling. Here's a link to the ended ad: Windows 7 profesional 2x xd boxed with manual and...
Hi all Big apologies for the delay in coming back to this... I'm thinking of forgetting about Win10 for now... From what I understand, if I...
@Christer - thanks for that great advice. Lots to think about and consider. I'll come back to it when doing the installation, and will also no...
Sorry? Rant? I'd have to disagree on both of those points :) I'll really appreciate the input and thank you for sharing your thoughts. I...
My failing drive is the OS drive in my PC. 500GB. It is partitioned with only a small amount for the OS. The rest was partially filled with...
Thanks for the replies and sorry for the delayed response. That inconvenience called xmas got in the way... I've decided I'm going to make sure...
Morning! I don't think Pre-failure and Old Age are as bad as they sound per se. Not from what I have just been reading. From smartctl main...
Hi Christer One of the screenshots inthe link from post #7 shows the SMART status of the drive. Cheers
One more thing so that I don't hog my own thread too much! [IMG] The HDTune error scan finished with 4 damaged blocks. The reason it took an age...
Hi Back with a few updates. I ran CHKDSK /R on the drive. Well, actually, I chose C which is one of three partitions on the drive, so I'm not...
Hi retiredlearner OK, thanks for the reply and the suggestion... I'll check that tutorial out. Just to be sure, do you mean the "How to repair...
I think perhaps you are both right on the surfing habits/common sense. I don't do cracked software, music/movie downloads, etc (aside form...
Sure... I have already added my system details so that is comes up with a click on my avatar (I did that before posting this question). As...
Hi I’ve had this problem for a while now… When I turn my PC on, it comes to a black screen saying “MBR Error 1 - Press any key to boot from...
Hi Off to bed in a moment, so a more thorough response will have to wait until tomorrow... But first wanted to say many thanks for the help....
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