Recent content by abbey01

Happy to report that I converted the machine back to Linux and everything is working great. (As I would expect from a Linux OS) no more driver issues. Linux, as usual, just works without all the drama associated with Windows 7, at least. Now I have a working computer I can pass along to my...

The USB controller is one of the many drivers I'm missing and I don't know, quite frankly, how to install one. Would it make sense to re-install the OS to see if the drivers magically appear ? B

Well, XFAT is the only one I haven't tried, so why not. I'll give it a go and see what happens. Thanks for the reply.

I finally got Win 7 installed, but now I've run into another problem. (does it ever end). For some reason it didn't load any of my device drivers !?!? I feel like if I could at least install the wifi driver I would then be able to address the other driver issues. So, I went to my other machine...

Good Morning, I resolved the issue with the secure boot. By selecting the pause/break key on my keyboard I was able to see and enter the 4 digit code to save my settings. Having done that I proceeded with the install and selected the advanced tab as recommended. I then selected the format tab...

Yes, but....... A screen comes up with a 4 digit code that apparently I'm to enter but it's on the screen for a split second and I am unable to properly see and manage it. Is that part of the problem ??? B

Sorry, but those changes had no affect. Still getting the same message. Bruce

Reply to Neemobeer: I tried to do as you suggested but unfortunately got the following message at attempted boot up: "Secure Boot Violation" Invalid signature detected. check boot policy in setup. As I don't know what the "policy" is I didn't know what to enable/disable, etc. Any ideas ...

Hi, I have an HP Pavilion 23 that is currently running Linux and I want to convert it back to a windows 7 machine for my grandson. So far, all of my attempts have failed as the drive is set up as a gpt partition and I can't seem to get it changed to ntfs to load windows. Does anyone know of a...