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Annie1960 wrote: »

I did this when I changed from my previous desktop to the current one.

When was that? You do realise that the software, if installed on a new disk may no longer work, or install. I understand it worked in the past, working now, but there is a chance that it may longer work or install.

Unknowing what clickfree product you have, and to be blunt I am not that interested, oe want to get involved with clickfree "You can view, restore, or transfer backed up content onto a different computer as long as the Clickfree software on the original computer is activated with a full license (not a trial version)." - This could me license key, or could mean on-line activation, or both

Copy off you documents and photos etc. manually to another disk.

What did the drive diagnostics tell you?

Annie1960

What is a good windows computer for me to get?

Been tied up all day, not logged on to desktop to do diagnostics.

Much of my stuff is on dropbox, but no more room on this so stuff also on hard drive of desktop.

I was thinking about buying a new Windows machine anyway, so may as well get one sooner rather than later.

I have a macbook laptop, but like a large desktop screen for my main computer.

Any suggestion which current ones are reliable and affordable?

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Annie1960 wrote: »

What is a good windows computer for me to get?

Been tied up all day, not logged on to desktop to do diagnostics.

Much of my stuff is on dropbox, but no more room on this so stuff also on hard drive of desktop.

I was thinking about buying a new Windows machine anyway, so may as well get one sooner rather than later.

I have a macbook laptop, but like a large desktop screen for my main computer.

Any suggestion which current ones are reliable and affordable?

Post this as a new link as people will look at the title and think it is about Hard Disk

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Have you tried restarting the machine a couple of times?

Sometimes old machines will give you a "boot media not found" error first time round but will work when you restart. If you still get the error then restart again but hit the f2 key to go into BIOS and see if the HDD is still being recognised.

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Annie1960 wrote: »

I've just got a message saying 'no boot disk has been detected or the disk has failed'. I pressed ctrl+alt+del and the screen then started loading in the normal way.

I'm using a 5 year old HP desktop, which updated itself with Win10 last year.

What should I do, if anything, other than making sure I back up everything today while I'm logged on?

I have problems with mine after upgrading to win 10, wish id not bothered
I had to reinstall windows a few times as it would not boot.

You should run a disk diagnostic, windows has a check disc thing, also this


http://download.cnet.com/HD-Tune/3000-18512_4-10974407.html

a bad drive looks like this



I suspect your probs could be due to the win 10 upgrade though maybe?

You need to provide a bit more info how many drives do you have, you may have a failing drive.

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Annie1960 wrote: »

How do I know who manufactured the hard drive?

you need the device manager various ways to run it, click disk drives there is info there you can click on your drive and select properties but the name of your drive will be there, google it.

Also running disk management gives useful info, click start and look for disk management it should say if there are probs.
https://www.lifewire.com/how-to-open-disk-management-2626080