Recent content by SeptimusFry

I was aware of that technique if you are able to use a keyboard/mouse at the login screen, and putting it here is very useful. However it will not work when you have no keyboard or mouse to use at the login screen. You cannot access the cmd prompt you substitute for the on-screen keyboard...

Perhaps you could share the method. Remember i am talking about a system under repair which cannot be logged into. Specifically, keyboard and mouse inoperable at normal login screen. Using a W10 installation media to try to repair. It looks on the security database of the damaged system and...

Having just recovered my system after some disastrous problems, I learned a hard-won lessong. When recovering or repairing W10 systems, there are times when you are expected to provide the login and password for the damaged system. This poses a significant difficulty to those who login on the...

Odd, I have done it before, Acer drive on a dell platform, and yes some things misbehaved due to inappropriate drivers, but things tend to drop back to generics, like screen coming up in vga... The reason why I want to boot this drive has to do with passwords, but I suspect you are right, the...

Well, you might well be right. There are boring reasons why I need to boot off it, but I may be able to do no more than simple data recovery in the end. IAM surprised at what you said about a dell hd not working in an hp, for example... I understood MBRs etc all to be hardware independent. But...

I must come across as an absolute dummy ! Perhaps I don't say enough. I have of course entered setup, as you say f12 on my particular computer. It is not like the AMD BIOS on my desktop computer, just a simple interface called Boot Manager. This what I get... Boot mode is set to: Legacy; Secure...

Sorry, didn't make it explicit, the HD (actuall SSD) is in a docking station, not sure how I would be trying this otherwise. My laptop was originally loaded W7 but is currently W10. I vaguely remember that booting sources/devices are written into the BIOS and just trying to boot off a bootable...

I am trying to recover a friend's info from the HD of her defunct laptop. So I have my laptop which is W10 these days, and I put the HD into my USB3 drive. I set the boot device to the USB drive, but it just wont boot from there. I have terms like 'legacy' in the boot settings screen - not sure...

This is not restricted to computers. It is the TOL syndrome: aka Take Off and Landing. The statistics show that (despite the media attention leading one to believe else) the outstanding preponderance of aircraft fail on takeoff and landing and this is particularly true if you exclude human error...

I have since had a flash of déja vu and remembered that it was in Photoshop that I was able to get the screen scaling the way I wanted it, and accurate. In Photoshop > Edit Preferences > Units and Rulers you have the opportunity to enter (for my wants) 88 ppi under screen resolution, which...

I have a relatively simple problem which I just cannot resolve. I have two monitors, one beside the other (in desktop extension, so that I have a wide desktop and can slide stuff seamlessly from one to the other). The first is 1920 x 1200, the other is 1920 x 1080. However, they are physically...

Just discovered this thread: I am in same situation. found that my 1.5TB mirror set was resynching constantly, system very sluggish ran HDTune on the two disks and found one was able to respond at around 100MB/s, the other at around 6MB/s (call this disk M2). Thinking that M2 was defective, I...

Saltgrass. I am old enough and wise enough to not worry about eating my hat. As a result of your suggestions, I had to go into the BT settings to be sure you were totally wrong. I managed to find a way to make BT reserve the port I wanted before installing the adapter, as a result I could...

I think it may help if I re-state the problem. This is re-assignment problem, not a simple assignment or choice problem. Before adding a BT adapter, there is nothing available to work with in Control Panel or elsewhere - BT protocol hasn't been installed, no BT service is running... Now...

Hmm, I dont think that the BIOS is involved in this. Actually, the connecton of the BT adapter causes W7 to install the BT device driver for BT. At that stage, it automatically assigns COM4 to the BT adapter, so it has to assign something else to use with any BT device discovered. All this was...