Recent content by WestonG

Resolved the issue. Managed to boot from CD.

I'm not asking for help with recovering the password, And don't need to discuss that. Was merely being honest. And helping a friend. She hasn't used the laptop for years and she has family holiday pictures on it she cannot replace. I'm just trying to work out why the bios will not allow booting...

Any ideas why it won't boot from USB/Disk unless legacy is enabled?

Hey, So, I'm trying to recover a Windows 10 account password for a family friend that has forgotten the password on a HP pavilion laptop. The laptop boot loader is only allowing me to select a bootable USB or CD as the boot option, if legacy mode is enabled within the bios. If legacy mode is...

Thanks for your responses, The difficulty is that almost all of these readers - and reviews of them - tend to only measure read/write speeds. That's not really an accurate measure of how fast the reader can shred or encrypt data. I can't really find any information beyond that. Searching google...

Thanks for the SATA reader suggestion - was not aware of them. I'm not sure if it will be any faster though. As SATA 3 and USB 3 are both 600Mb/sec, to my knowledge. Although... for operations like shredding, or compressing; I'm not sure that data transfer speed is that important. Seems to be...

Hey, I want to know what aspect or parameter governs the speed in which a drive can shred a file (file overwrite). I'm asking because I cannot find an SD card reader that can shred files faster the one built into my 5 year old laptop. It's immensely faster at this task than multiple so called...

Power Supply runs the AMD Phenom build with the same RAM, GPU AND PSU. Looks like it's the power delivery on the motherboard failing. Guess I'm looking at needing to buy a new Motherboard RAM and CPU, since there is no point replacing tech that old now. Have to be either a 3600x or 9600k. Kind...

Been troubleshooting a bit. Stripped the PC to the bare minimum. Issue persists with only the motherboard and CPU connected. Seems most likely to be a failing PSU at this point. Thought the G2 750 would have a bit more it than that tbh. Got about 4 years out of it. Luckily it has a 10 year...

I connected my OS drive to my laptop and it displays fine. I can view the files of the OS and windows says there is no errors with the drive. I tried to boot from windows disk on laptop to run diagnostics or repair on the drive. My laptop outright refuses to load from the windows disk. Set it as...

Just an update I've had the PC in this cycle for over 24 hours now. I have managed to reach the windows launch screens multiple times. It always freezes up with the system staying powered on. Also been met with the windows auto repair screen several times. It freezes there also. One time...

Managed to get to get to the initial windows screen again with the GPU back in, only the monitor keyboard mouse plugged in and the boot drive. It's been on "Preparing Automatic Repair" with the blue windows icon for about 45 minutes thus far. Computer staying powered on but there is no loading...

Hello, For a couple months my PC would have trouble waking from sleep or powering up. It would power up then off again repeatedly for after a couple of seconds. After around 3-6 minutes it would eventually boot and run flawlessly. No crashes, no bugs and temps are fine. Working normally. But I...

Hello, I seemed to have solved the issue - for now - via policy edits. I'll mark your answer as the solution... though it seems the crux of the issue is Windows Update as I know I have configured these settings before. Thanks.

Misread your post a little and went on a rant =P IMO from personal experience it is no different from windows 7, 8 , 8.1. Apart from the aforementioned DX12 which has yet to prove itself in real world gaming scenarios AFAIK Edit: There was an annoying pop-up from windows about game mode or...