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GeneralI WUV WENOVO! Pin
Mark_Wallace13-Sep-16 22:51
Mark_Wallace13-Sep-16 22:51 
... This week, at least. Ask me again next week.

After the total debacle of windows fastboot making my laptop's system and restore partitions look like RAW, and the even debaclier process of obtaining a recovery disc from Wenovo (names changed to protect the innocent), who kept "correcting" my address, and the debacalissimo process of watching the recovery disc take a week to show a mouse cursor on a black screen, I ripped out the HDD and replaced it (with a new, completely blank disc, it should be noted).

Giving them one last chance, I shoved Wenovo's recovery disc into a USB slot, and selected it in the boot menu...

... And it simply rebuilt the entire machine from scratch!

No mess, no fuss, just "Hey, it looks like your laptop is ***ked*! Ya wannus ta fix it? [Y/N]" (I have to paraphrase, because I can't recall the exact wording).

I had back-ups of the drivers, etc. (almost a gig of the damned things), so I had been looking forward to hours and hours of installs and reboots, but I didn't need to do any of that. The recovery disc literally took care of everything. A couple of hours later, the machine booted clean and pure, full of the joys of spring -- and with a 2TB disc, rather than the old 500gig one.

The only unfortunate thing is that it's still windows 8, but I can live with that (after a lot of judicious hacking).

Wenovo. In the good books.


(This week)




* That's "borked", you filthy-minded heathens!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

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GeneralStuck offline? Time for some pre-historic fun.. Pin
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