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In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Tue, 03 Dec 2024 11:29:28 -0500, micky <
NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> wrote:
about 5 years ago. It's about 10 years
old now. It has an HDD and an SSD. I figured the rebuilder added the
second, but later found out they were originally sold that way. It
worked fine except for one story unrelated to the refurbishing.
You might have read this the first time I told it, 4, 5, maybe 6 years
ago.
After I installed some software, the pc would no longer boot. Barely
anything happened. I tried to boot from Hiren's something-or-other and
I bought another similar program, and I used DOS to reinstall the boot sequence, and did other things, in order to uninstall the program I'd
put in. I used WinRE. I asked here for ideas and did everything
suggested. And I did them over and over and spent maybe 40 or 50 hours
trying to get it to work. I had used Hirens to get almost all my data
off the computer, but I wanted to show myself that I could also fix it.
I had a laptop and I used that for email and newsgroups and the web and
I read reviews about the program that caused all these problems, and
there was nothing about it causing problems.
This went on for 3 or 4 months.
Finally I read something online about pressing F11 or 12 (or 10 or 9)
while starting, and that is all I had to do**. it didn't open the BIOS
and I didn't make changes to the BIOS, just press that F key, and the
computer started and ran like it had. Including the problem program.
Later I concluded somehow that ther had been an MS update at about the
same time I installed the program, and it caused the problem. I think
maybe I found a line in the update list about it being backed out, or at
least installed again a few days after the computer worked again. Of
course by this timer it was 4 months later, and whatever bug was in it,
MS had found and fixed, probably a day or two after my problems started.
**I've only read about this once. I'd think it would be repeated
constantly. I don't know what it did, but I think it backed out the
most recent update. I told here how this one step fixed it and got very
little comment back.
I wanted to call the refurbisher (even though it was months after I'd
bought it, maybe he'd know.), but Amazon used 3 or 4 refurbishers to do
this very model, and mine had sold out, so he didn't get listed, and I
didn't remember which it was. Years later I found a 1x2" sticker on the
side of the box that faces me (although it's at hip level) when I walk
by that gives his company name and phone number.
(Wait.
He didn't send me exactly the one I ordered. The one he sent was very
similar and it would boot off the image I made of the previous computer, >connected by USB iirc. I liked that. But for some other imporrtant
reason, I sent it back (no charge to me) and he sent the one I'd ordered
in the first place. The new one wouldn't boot off the image, but I
hadn't relied on doing that.)
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