Recent content by Owent10

Hello, I have just done a clean install of windows because I messed up my registry in an attempt to fix my external hard drive problem. Now, I have plugged my Seagate hard-drive back into my Acer Apire E15 laptop and it still isn't showing anything. The blue indicator light isn't switched on...

Hello, I need to perform a clean install on my Acer aspire e15. I have a Windows bootable usb plugged in. I've selected custom install. I've backed up my documents View: https://m.imgur.com/a/sigAI3E There's the screen I'm at. I don't know what to delete from here Thanks

I only have Windows boot manager in my boot menu in BIOS, does that mean anything before I do a clean install of windows?

I'm considering buying a new external hard drive and copying my files at this point. i'm worried about my damaged hard drive though, i plugged it into my laptop in the regedit menu and it was blank except for a recovery.txt file. And it was only about 500mb instead of 500gb

View: https://imgur.com/a/2KGpYKe The startup repair still didn't work after booting from the usb. I'll try the solutions you linked

Ok, so I turned off the pc, took out the usb, turned the pc on but it still gave me the same inaccessible boot blue screen

Ok, so turn off and turn on the pc or boot from the usb again?

View: https://imgur.com/a/kYVqGsW I went to the original location and it seems like the upper filter was already there for some reason. So I closed down regedit to try again but cmd wouldn't let me reopen it

Ok, so I found a similar solution to what you're saying: "run regedit, Left click on HKLM (left side of Registry Editor) and load System hive, located in F:\Windows\System32\config\SYSTEM (assuming F: is the drive letter of windows partition from connected drive) manually add deleted entries...

It was almost finished importing then I got this error View: https://m.imgur.com/a/7wShSl0 I don't have a system restore I don't think by the way

For what it's worth I do remember exporting a backup of the registry before I deleted the upper filter if that changes anything. I can see my files in notepad which is good. Thanks. I should back them up before doing the regedit thing in cmd, although I don't know how to repair the damage from...

By the way, when I clicked the repair option it brought me to this troubleshooting menu. View: https://m.imgur.com/a/sfNAvEC I clicked Use a device, then clicked the USB option. Is that what I was supposed to do, and if so can it not be truly repaired?

Ok, so can I delete windows off of my usb? And just download Linux on it? My usb is about 29gb. Can you point me to a tutorial or outline how to put Linux on the usb? Thanks

Thanks for your response So I managed to boot from the usb. Now I'm at this menu - View: https://m.imgur.com/a/EIQgyeO I already hit the repair option but it eventually brought me back to this screen again. Do I click install then? And how do I copy my files?

Hello, My external hard drive wasn't showing up when I plugged it into my laptop. This is because I didn't eject it properly. So I followed some steps online to make the hard drive show up on my laptop: Step 1. Hit Start, type regedt32 and click OK. Step 2. Backup your registry by going to...