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You are welcome
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Outside of what has been suggested above, remove the SSD and switch on the laptop to see what happens
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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I saw a new Dell with a small SSD and a larger spinner.
If you have two drives, yes the boot is going to be the ssd.
These are very temporary growing pains as I saw a 500gb ssd for 47 bucks on sale.
It's the end of the mechanical HD. It's been a good run all the way back to the RK05 but good reddens.
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I was going to say "if I had such a machine I'd be tempted to change the spinner to SSD"
but on second thoughts forget the temptation, just do it.
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I recently replaced the spinner in my wife's HP all-in-one with a SSD. I was surprised to find a 16GB SSD mounted on the board, apparently only used for cache. I never saw any indication that it helped anything. That 5+ y/o machine was always really slow. The new SSD and fresh Windows made all the difference as it's now < 10 seconds from power on to Google.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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Yeah, this is what I am not sure of, whether the SSD is just cache, or is the actual boot device.
It shows, in Hierans boot CD in a disk scan tool as an unmounted device, it does show up in BIOS as a disk device.
The terrabyte disk is mounted, but the disk manager shows some odd partitions, it was partitioned up into
windows 10, windows 7, data, linux, android,
It seems as if the windows 10, what was the original disk boot partition, has lost its MBR.
(I later put on an Ubuntu MBR on this disk, and it then booted either Ubuntu, windows 10, or windows 7).
All my data is backed up on a terabyte external USB disk, so I might just get the rescue iso off Dell, and reset the system to its original format, booting windows 10, and running ubuntu and android off VMs. Probably easiest. THe Dell hardware check, long version, didnt report any hardware issues, so it looks like the disks are OK, just the MBR got trashed.
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Windows 10 updates will trash MBR's it doesn't understand, here's just one ref: dual boot - Windows 10 update broke my MBR / GRUB - Ask Ubuntu[^]
A better way to go would be install ubuntu (dell even do this themselves in some of their laptops) and run win 10 & 7 out of VM's - more stable and less worries that win updates will mess up vm settings / connectivity or even scan and decide it's suspicious.
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THats a possible. Right now I just need another windows 10 machine on the C drive that I can use for testing some driver dev work.
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Safety rail for the gullible. (5,5)
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Oh, very good!
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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I have something but I don't want to post tomorrow.
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I'm just going to have this one tenuous attempt and then give up...
Green Guard?
EDIT: I don't even know what a green guard is... but google suggested those words sometimes go together in terms of safety
modified 29-Jan-19 4:56am.
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Nope.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Fairly Tales?
cheers,
Super
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Too much of good is bad,mix some evil in it
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Close. Want to edit?
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Well, fairly close ...
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Shucks..
It was Fairy Tales. Typo
cheers,
Super
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Too much of good is bad,mix some evil in it
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Tomorrow is all yours...
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Good that I did not post yesterday. My for biting the bullet.
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Sometimes on the flow. when you type a message, I end up insanely repeating a particular word, accidentally. When I read the message again, after a while. It looks so strange & I rush to edit/normalize it.
For example,
Boss,
Let me know if there's any change in priorities in my task list for this week.
Also please review the priorities for the backlog work items, waiting for this.
Based on the priority marked, I'll rush to map them to upcoming sprints.
Getting the tasks planned for next sprint is top priority! need to complete this before team completes current sprint.
Okay, this above message is just an example.
When I'm involved in typing the message, I don't see the weirdness. But when I get back and read it again. there's a hell lot of "priorities".
Thanks to the messaging Apps that lets me edit & apply the patch quick.
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When I do that, I often add another paragraph after it:
Priorities (in case I missed one).
So far, I've only got one e-mail from one colleague doing the same, but these things catch on.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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When I get a message like this, I put the repetitions in bold and send it back to the original sender.
Followed by a page full of icons.
I'm the fun guy at parties.
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You'll be the right boss to work with !
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Yes, yes, yes, yes, I've been there, indeed, yes!.
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