Recent content by LesM

Fantastic, Neemobeer. I bow to your knowledge. I am A+ qualified only. I have phoned the user to keep his original HDD because of the hope you gave me. He is 10 miles away but I will get hold of his HDD and perform this series of commands. I appreciate this, with anticipation of a positive...

You've got me hopeful now, Neemobeer - many thanks - I am researching how to proceed.

Thanks Neemobeer. I have discovered that the user has deleted the Windows partitions that are automatically created during installation while using a third party partitioning utility. I have never used BCDboot nor bootrect utilities that you mention. I will follow up these utilities in the...

I have used Windows since its inception way back in the days of mono coloured screens and have never corrupted a system yet. I have never relied on many months of hard graft creating whatever is so important that it must be recoverable. Backup then shutup is the motto here. No one could do...

Perhaps I am assuming, wrongly, that the original HDD is not faulty

apart from what apps he has installed, it is Windows that is failing to boot - why? So I am told by the Philippines call centre that I must do an inplace custom install, but this also fails. I want M/S to be able to solve the non-start.

Glad to be part of such a forum. I help others with Microsoft Windows10 but sometimes it is beyond me. We need some real experts who can get down to programming language. Linux may suit most on here much better since the system is open source. I don't use Linux but am determined to get...

This issue is my friend's who has spent many hours building data using non-Microsoft apps. His laptop refuses to start up into Win10. Microsoft agent says the way forward is to do a custom install on the C: drive. There are three other drives that my friend has created on his 1TB HDD. He...