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I have just answered my own question. There is a Pro Partition Assistant - and - wait for it - they do want more beer tokens for it - 45, to be precise (I drink cheap beer but compensate by drinking a lot of it and anyway, it's hot out here  ).
This will enable doing a switcheroo 'Convert System/Boot Disk between MBR and GPT Styles'.
Hey - wait a minute - didn't they just do that to me for free? 
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I recently had a similar request over the phone for help as a PC wouldn't boot anymore, as it was on sunday and it wasn't too far away from where I live, I decided to go to the place of crime to figure it out.
Indeed the PC at first would not boot, I removed all dangling USB thingies and to my surprise Windows 10 showed a "repairing disk" message.
After Windows had repaired the disk the PC worked again, I suspect it had to do with a damaged hibernate file which is created when you put Windows to sleep.
Phew, that was easier than expected 
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Nah, this just did the POST, and went to a blank screen with just the charger plugged in. A quick BIOS inspection showed everything there looked fine, so boot record / GPT / kernel corruption is my guess.
I'm guessing he downloaded a nasty and panicked when it started doing things, but I could be wrong.
One thing about Win10 and disks that I hate: plug in a large FAT32 drive and it complains it's defective because it wants to convert it to exFAT (since it's proprietary to MS).
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff wrote: Only ... Windows won't let him access the files because he's logged in as user "Tim", and the files are owned by ... user "Tim"
No administrator user on Tim's lappie?
or plug the USB into another computer and set full permissions for everybody?
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Because it's an image backup mounted as a read only drive*, you can't change the permissions at all. I'm currently restoring the backup onto a fresh partition on the USB drive so he can change the permissions on that.
* And I wouldn't have it any other way: backups should be read only!
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To possibly fix that permission issue, you could try a little trick I used to get rid of Security Center even though it's owned by the OS:
TAKEOWN /F "%SystemRoot%\<filePath>"
ICACLS "%SystemRoot%\<filePath>" /grant:r administrators:F
This will force ownership of any file onto the current group (in my case admin) and give admin full permissions. Works in Win7; haven't tested on Win10.
modified 25-Mar-18 16:47pm.
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OriginalGriff wrote: Why do we make things to complicated for ourselves yourself?
FTFY.
Please tell me you at least tried to get the boot sector fixed before deciding you needed to go through this whole-day (and more) process...?
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Format the drive and claim the pictures were lost 
Bastard Programmer from Hell
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For the record, and this might not help you here, but could.
I have ALWAYS used the technique of putting the NEW drive in the current boot slot,
and copying from USB into that position, because YEARS ago, the 2 different controllers could screw up the boot sector if I wrote it in the USB and then swapped it.
Since learning to do it that way, I have never had to change anything else...
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And rightly so, I'm fed up with some neighbours over here that refuse to clean up the dog sh*t, they even let their dogs lay turds on the pavement ! 
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Over here one discusses to take the DNA of each dog. In a case like yours they will easily find the owner and punish him/her. I'm very ok with such a solution, but at this time it seems to be too much costly.
It does not solve my Problem, but it answers my question
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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Thanks for the tip, gonna look into that 
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Most of that DNA would be the dogs intestinal bacteria, I wonder how useful that can be.
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Please explain more...
I think if DNA will be taken from blood, one should see a more or less unique relation to sh*t probe?
It does not solve my Problem, but it answers my question
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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Well yes they can separate the doggie DNA,
but these tests still cost $100 and up to run, plus depending on how local the lab is and how clean the sample a days to weeks get results
(once again it's real life vs what the TV shows portray)
sure owner pays but what if it's a stray/unregistered dog, cat, komodo dragon or mslemming?
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Quote: but what if it's a stray/unregistered dog
Nearly impossible here for Dogs that they are uregistered (cats are more difficult)
[Edit]
In case an un chiped dog is recognized it will moved to animal shelter and will be chiped
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It does not solve my Problem, but it answers my question
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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Haha, haven't seen any Komodo dragons here lately
But I do have some Comodo certificates over here which are draconic ...
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Quote: but these tests still cost $100
any references for this?
It does not solve my Problem, but it answers my question
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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So, what you're saying is that you usually let the "misses" (sic) do that.
Are the dogs hers, and hers alone?
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Hers alone .... in this case 
It does not solve my Problem, but it answers my question
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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I see. Carry on then. If she's clear on that, then I see nothing wrong with your stance.
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Hi all,
I've got an old all in one asus pc that has a strange wifi problem:
It connects perfectly to the wifi network A.
Once you reset the computer it can't connect again to that wifi A.
If at this moment I try to connect to a hotspot created by my android phone (wifi B) it works.
After that I can connect to the wifi A network again...
I would say that reinstalling the drivers should solve this... but there are not available drivers at the asus web page.
That computer would be very useful replacing an older one...
What would you do to diagnose and solve this strange problem?
Thank you all...
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It's not brilliant, but the Windows Network Centre "Troubleshoot this connection" might shed some light on how far it gets when trying to connect. The sequence is roughly:
Enable/reset adapter
Make link level connection
Obtain IP address (assuming you have DHCP enabled - might be worth checking!!)
Router login
...
Good hunting,
Peter
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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