you would have to contact the computer manufacturer for extra factory
restore disks. not geek squad they don't know anything about computers. they
have one person that went to school. all the other employees do what there
boss says because they don't know what they are doing most of the time.
there part switchers not technitions.
****
have you tried pressing f2 to get into the bios? one of my computers uses f2
not f12 to get into the bios.
***
try casper cloneing software with the second drive.;
if you could change the boot order to boot from the u s b hard drive you
could boot the backup, in windows with speech and use casper from the
backup drive to restore the internal c drive.
-----Original Message-----
From: Christopher-Mark Gilland via Talk
Sent: Monday, June 01, 2015 5:10 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Boy? did I? pull a major stupid!
I'm such a neurotic idiot! I can't freaking believe I did this! As you all
know by now, I have a laptop which is running Windows 8.1. The problem is,
back when I initially bought this machine, I went through the control panel
and made a set of recovery discs. Once they were burned, I electic, and
here is my r'really! stupid move! To erase the recovery partition off my
drive, to reclame a few gigs of space. I figured, what the heck. I have
the DVD's now that I burned, so big freaking deal. If the system ever
crashes, I simply just need to boot to the first DVD, and go.
Well, this would be great, except for one problem. During my last move,
I've seemed to have misplaced those DVD's. I've turned the house totally
upside down, and rightside up! They're gone! I dono what happened, but
they have totally vannished, and believe you me, I looked. The issue is,
with Windows 7 and 8/8.1, once you make these discs, that's it. It only
gives you that one chance apparently. After that, the option is no longer
available. So, now, I have two issues. Firstly, I've wiped the recovery
partition, so that's not an option anymore, plus I've lost my DVD's.
Secondly, I've put the make and model of the laptop, which I don't recall
off the top of my head into Google, it's an Asus, but don't recall the
model. I went to see if there was an updated bios as apparently, I need to
update it to get access to the option needed to be able to get the thing to
boot to the DVD optycal or the USB ports. So, it's not like I now can boot
to either. I looked and it doesn't appear that there is a key to get to the
boot menu. F12 isn't doing anything, and neither is F8. Apparently, a
friend of mine told me it has to do with in Windows 8, they no longer have a
bios, but now, most systems have what's called a UEFI which you have to go
into and disable things like secure boot, and a few other settings which off
hand I'm failing to recall, before you can even think of selecting to boot
to DVD. So, the thing is, right now, my system is working perfectly, but,
if God forbid, it ever crashes, I don't have a way of installing an OS back
on to it. I
spoke to Geeksquad, and even they! won't help me. Not even for pay. The
lady who was the magnolia specialist was like, Sir, it's honestly not my
problem that you pulled a stupid is, as stupid duzz.
So, does this mean, if the system ever crashes, I'm just S O L until I can
get a new laptop? You'd think as incredibly advanced of a techy I am, I'd
know not to a done this, and you know, in retrospect, looking back on it, I
gotta say, this was one a the stupidest! moves I've ever made! I literally
just wanna crawl in a hole and freaking die! I'm usually darn good at this
type thing, but in this case, I'm really frightened to use the system,
honestly. I don't wanna do anything that could risk it later crashing down
the line from wear and tear/use.
I can't pay right this second, and when I can, it couldn't be probably more
than $50 max at most, but if someone could help with this or could at least
on or off list offer me some suggestions, I'd be willing come this Wednesday
on the 3rd to PayPal you $50 for your time in researching things, and for
your effort to help me. If we could get the unit booting to DVD, I'd be
100% satisfied.
Also as for recoverring, I do have a copy of Terrabyte Unlimited's Image for
Windows, but it doesn't seem to be working with Win 8.1. The story of my
life! Apparently the version is way too old, seeing I bought it back in
2004, I think, and haven't updated it since. I just haven't really been
able to afford it, with other bills, and such.
Anyway, this mail has gotten way longer than I intended, and to save you
all's sanity therefore, I'm gonna close. Please help, though, if you can.
Chris.
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