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J_B

grumpycrab wrote: »

At the Custome install option, you want to erase exisiting partition and let W10 do its thing.

I've flashed the BIOS ...



I was erasing the wrong partition on the install ... it's installing W10 now.


There is a local shop that has extracted data from a failed HDD before. Shall I go there or can 'we' do it from here?


I guess E/W is of to the beach soon??

EveryWhere

J_B wrote: »

I've flashed the BIOS ...



I was erasing the wrong partition on the install ... it's installing W10 now.


There is a local shop that has extracted data from a failed HDD before. Shall I go there or can 'we' do it from here?


I guess E/W is of to the beach soon??

I am already at the beach. Have been for the past four weeks. I only have a few days between trips.

You should be able to do it yourself. It likely hasn't failed and is just an issue of corruption.

Shame you didn't upgrade Windows 7 to Pro and take a snapshot of activation whilst everything was still working. Takes about five minutes to so. Then you could have installed 10 Pro.

Thinking about it, perhaps I gave you the wrong instructions for the upgrade and made it seem more onerous.

Edit: I did give the right instruction as it already had 10 installed. It just would have taken and ten minutes or so to install 7 and then 10.

J_B

EveryWhere wrote: »

I am already at the beach. Have been for the past four weeks. I only have a few days between trips.

You should be able to do it yourself. It likely hasn't failed and it just an issue of corruption.

OK, where do we start?

EveryWhere

J_B wrote: »

OK, where do we start?

I'm still on holiday remember?

J_B

EveryWhere wrote: »

I'm still on holiday remember?

You are always on holiday ... even more than me!!!


PC owner is Skiing (again) but is back on Friday ... but we are away on Wednesday, so was hoping to sort it today and tomorrow ...

EveryWhere

J_B wrote: »

You are always on holiday ... even more than me!!!


PC owner is Skiing (again) but is back on Friday ... but we are away on Wednesday, so was hoping to sort it today and tomorrow ...

Preparing supper. Super hungry.

Have a go attaching it to your system and try following the link that I sent. If that doesn't work, then perhaps TestDisk next.

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Anything like this one? He put a 128Gb and 4GB ram in. I would guess x86 windows, as x64 may slow it down - but varies with hardware

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_itQcgRhtL8

J_B

EveryWhere wrote: »

Preparing supper. Super hungry.

Sorry, I was thinking of the wrong time zone!

EveryWhere wrote: »

Have a go attaching it to your system and try following the link that I sent. If that doesn't work, then perhaps TestDisk next.

Link viewed
chkdsk wouldn't work, but EraseUs Partition Master did the trick.
Just extracting the data now, but still struggling with access as per post #20

EveryWhere

that wrote: »

Anything like this one? He put a 128Gb and 4GB ram in. I would guess x86 windows, as x64 may slow it down - but varies with hardware

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_itQcgRhtL8

64 bit won't slow anything down. What are you thinking?

EveryWhere

J_B wrote: »

Sorry, I was thinking of the wrong time zone!





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chkdsk wouldn't work, but EraseUs Partition Master did the trick.
Just extracting the data now, but still struggling with access as per post #20

Unable to take ownership?

Went out for a noodle soup instead. Couldn't be bothered to mess around cooking at 1.30am.