Recent content by mere_mortal

Hi, I've been using a Corsair K70 RGB MK.2 Low Profile Keyboard for a long time and need a replacement. As those keyboards have been discontinued they aren't easy to find...

Just to finalise this thread I ended up using UFS explorer. Worked perfectly. Was able to recover the files. Thankyou :)

Thankyou really helpful advice. I've focused on ReclaiMe to start. It "sees" the disks and the RAID 5 which is a great start. I could definitely hook the USB hub up to Zorin. Can you recommend a software RAID utitility to use? Or better to run the commands here...

Thankyou. That's an interesting thread. I've got Zorin running on a laptop so I can try that for sure. Thankyou.

Hi, I have an old Thecus N5200XXX NAS which has died. It was running 5 x 3TB disk in RAID 5 one volume around 11TB in size. The disks are all in good working order. It wasn't a crucial NAS and it's functions had been taken over by newer QNAP NAS's and as such wasn't checked as much as it should...

Hi all thankyou so much for all your assistance. Just following up on this. In the end after endless troubleshooting it appeared the issue was the M.2 boot drive. I just could not get the PC to boot from it. I ordered a new M.2 drive as well as an external USB 3.0 M.2 adapter to be able to...

Hi, Thankyou so much for your response very much appreciated. I tried the recommendation to check CSM. Then tried all of the bootrec options and a few others. I've not tried disconnecting all drives except the boot/OS drive yet. The boot drive is actually F: for some reason. I've tried a...

Hi, My PC has an ASRock X570 Taichi motherboard with an AMD Ryzen 7 3700X CPU. It's been running brilliantly for years but a few days ago I let it do a Windows update (I didn't check what it was) and shut it down. Since then it's not been able to start, with a "Windows operating system not...