Help! Hey computer guys...

Scroll up through my "quote" of you're post and my answers are under each question you asked....idk why it posted like that
 
It sounds like the settings for the hard drive changed when you updated the BIOS and the system is looking at the wrong part of the drive to boot from.

OGG went through something similar a couple of years ago and posted all the info.

I understand what went on at a conceptual level, but I'd need to have hands-on to be able to understand the details and then explain it.
 
I went into the bios setup and changed the boot config, one at a time and tried all the options but none worked!!
 
Ok...I got it fixed!
I bought a program called EZ Recovery Essentials from Neosmart.
First couple of times I tried to run the program I wouldn't load properly. I decided to give it one more shot and I loaded up and windows started. Go figure.
Cost me $20 for the EZ program.
 
And this is the the icon I clicked on for the win10 upgrade.
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gtrjunior said:
Ok...I got it fixed!
I bought a program called EZ Recovery Essentials from Neosmart.
First couple of times I tried to run the program I wouldn't load properly. I decided to give it one more shot and I loaded up and windows started. Go figure.
Cost me $20 for the EZ program.
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Excellent news! I was just in the midst of posting a long and involved process of steps for you to go through.


First thing now that you're back up and running is to make a complete set of rescue disks: http://www.dell.com/support/content...ell-backup-solutions/Dell-Backup-and-Recovery

To be completely safe and to have another method of getting back up and running, download and install the free version of Macrium Reflect, and do a complete system image of your PC.

Make sure you have some writable DVD disks, and buy some if you don't, or an external hard drive with enough free space to fit your current hard drive contents on.

Go to this link and scroll down to where it says "What Do I Need?" and start the process there.
 
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I actually made some before I changed the HDD and while I was searching for an installation disk I found the rescue disks I made 5 years ago!
When I had the boot issue I tried using the recovery disks but they just weren't working for me.
 
I just want to thank everyone that posted here with help and advise on this issue.
Believe me I learned a lot just having to research this problem.
I appreciate that many of you took time out of your busy schedules to help me out with this.
I really can't express how grateful I am.
This forum is full of some truly great people. I'm honored to be one of you!! Thanks again!!
 
GDSmithTX said:
the free version of Macrium Reflect, and do a complete system image of your PC.
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Thanks for this. I'm going to give that a look after the holidays.
I have various types of backups kicking around and I fear that if ever need to restore anything, I won't know which program to use. This looks like it covers the required bases and I can free up some space by turfing some of the old copies of stuff.
 
dodgechargerfan said:
Thanks for this. I'm going to give that a look after the holidays.
I have various types of backups kicking around and I fear that if ever need to restore anything, I won't know which program to use. This looks like it covers the required bases and I can free up some space by turfing some of the old copies of stuff.
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Yeah, that's a really good idea.

Macrium Reflect is quite useful so I bought the commercial version and have it set up to automatically back up my system onto separate 5tb external hard drives connected to my PC via USB. It does full backups every three months (alternating hard drives each time), and then differential backups (only backing up data that has been added or changed since the last full backup) on alternating drives in between.

After the initial full backup and rescue disk creation, setting up and testing the backup scheduling only took me half an hour, and then it's been completely automated since. It does its magic every Wednesday morning at 2am.

I am paranoid about losing data now, after having lost a full two years of photos of my son (who is 14 now) when the phone I'd taken them with crapped out, and then the backup turned out to be corrupted. Multiple backups plus the originals are the only way to completely rule that out.
 
dodgechargerfan said:
It sounds like the settings for the hard drive changed when you updated the BIOS and the system is looking at the wrong part of the drive to boot from.

OGG went through something similar a couple of years ago and posted all the info.

I understand what went on at a conceptual level, but I'd need to have hands-on to be able to understand the details and then explain it.
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Funny, you remember my shit better than I do. I remember the win10 update being problematic on one of my machines, but I don't even remember how I fixed it. I recall there being some level of old school computer nerd wizardry involved though. Something Microsoft themselves hadn't figured out yet. It was a triumphant moment.
 
GDSmithTX said:
Yeah, that's a really good idea.

Macrium Reflect is quite useful so I bought the commercial version and have it set up to automatically back up my system onto separate 5tb external hard drives connected to my PC via USB. It does full backups every three months (alternating hard drives each time), and then differential backups (only backing up data that has been added or changed since the last full backup) on alternating drives in between.

After the initial full backup and rescue disk creation, setting up and testing the backup scheduling only took me half an hour, and then it's been completely automated since. It does its magic every Wednesday morning at 2am.

I am paranoid about losing data now, after having lost a full two years of photos of my son (who is 14 now) when the phone I'd taken them with crapped out, and then the backup turned out to be corrupted. Multiple backups plus the originals are the only way to completely rule that out.
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I've got it downloaded as well now. I just spent the afternoon reloading all my programs back onto the hard drive. I have just one left that I don't have a license key for. So next week when I get a minute I need to give them a call and have them walk me through it.
Once that's done I'm cloning that shit!!!
 
Ok...I'm seriously contemplating pulling the trigger on a new laptop...
I'm looking for recommendations for one that would be primarily used for music production. I'd still use it for the web etc but I'd try to keep the hard drive clean of any unnecessary downloads.
I'm looking for something windows based with at least a 17" screen. Budget $1000.....whadda ya got for me?
I saw a pretty nice Asus in a 5 best list.
https://www.wiknix.com/best-laptop-for-music-production/
 
gtrjunior said:
Ok...I'm seriously contemplating pulling the trigger on a new laptop...
I'm looking for recommendations for one that would be primarily used for music production. I'd still use it for the web etc but I'd try to keep the hard drive clean of any unnecessary downloads.
I'm looking for something windows based with at least a 17" screen. Budget $1000.....whadda ya got for me?
I saw a pretty nice Asus in a 5 best list.
https://www.wiknix.com/best-laptop-for-music-production/
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Get the Asus. It's a ton of machine for $1098, and it's on sale at OfficeDepot for $979 through 12/31.

High specs: powerful quad core cpu, big screen, plenty of ram, a 2gb discrete video card, a 7200rpm 1tb hard disk and easy expandability options (including adding a plugs-into-a-special-slot-on-the-motherboard M.2 SSD drive option).

Hard to pass that combination up.
 
It's got a lot of bad reviews on amazon...blue screen, bios not the updated version, can't update from win10home to pro(if that's desired) etc....
 
gtrjunior said:
So that SSD works in conjunction with the already installed HDD, in its own internal slot?
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Yes it does. I've bought this simple little software called Paragon OS Migrate (it's $20) that makes transitioning your operating system from a platter hard drive to an SSD very easy. I've used it 5 times on my own machine and other people's that I was working on, and it's done what I wanted quickly and easily every time.
 
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