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Thanks, but it wont show "Recovery HD" on ALT + Power button, and CMD+R doesnt work

No, I don't believe so

I don't know ! Serial number C02FKGRADF8V Model A1286 copyright 2010

Thanks That option doesn't do anything, sadly....

Suspect disk corruption on a MacBook Pro Can I plug the HDD in via USB to a Windows machine and do CHKDSK I also have an iPad The Macbook will not boot - Apple logo comes up - line goes across - then repeats again and again Tried holding ALT on startup - The symbol of the HDD comes up but NOT the RECOVERY Section icon Thanks

Sorted The machine has 2 drives Rebooted - pressed Ctrl+F to get into the RAID settings Deleted the Raid Array using number 3 (I think this deletes your data!) Removed 1 disk anyway (cuz I wanted the other one) Booted from Win 10 DVD and installed Windows - no complaints this time Cheers

Well I downloaded a verion of Win 10 iso and burnt a disk On installing it says it cant read the HDD and needs a driver - where is the best place to get the RAID driver ? Thanks

In the BIOS, I can only see RAID is Autodetect or ON - under SATA operation If anyone can see how to do a clean install without paying, then please let me know. I know upgrades are free, but to boot it from a Win 10 DVD bypasses that doesn't it ??

The RAID is ATI 2+0 Stripe/RAID0 SCSI Disk Device Dated 2006 Not sure how to update this...

Yep 2 drives both 160Gb with 2Gb RAM RAID is set to Autodetect. There is no setting to switch RAID off that I can see

Do you mean a BIOS update Also, I am not doing a clean install - it is an upgrade from Win 7 Thanks

Hi I am trying to upgrade Win 7 to 10 on a Dell 1721 It gets as far as pic attached Is there a workaround - can I disable the RAID Thanks

You could be right - wasn't sure if there is a cable for outdoor use

I run a cable from a router for around 100m outside to a caravan. It has been in place for a couple years no problem. Half of it is between telegraph poles and the other half is overground in a plastic water pipe. Suddenly stopped receiving signal from the router, so we changed the 2 plugs on the end - no difference. Then made up a connector which joins wires 1+2, 3+4, 5+6 and 7 +8 and plugged it into one end of the wire. Came back to the other end and ran an ohms meter between 1+2 etc and got an average reading of 84ohms Tried the same measurement on a 100m of new cable and got a reading of 17ohms. What does this mean ? I had a similar problem with another cable to the caravan over 2 years ago which had been in place for 2 or 3 years ????

Sorted it !! Disabled automatic recovery using "bcdedit /set (default} recoveryenabled no" at the C: prompt in Command Prompt from Recovery Environment Restarted Message came up about Rapport digital signature Disabled two files from Rapport in windows/system32/drivers BINGO ! Cheers

Stuck in this nonsense Tried chkdsk /r sfc /scannow - failed System Restore - failed Safe Mode - failed Last known Good Config - failed Go back to Previous Build - out of time Reset PC - failed Any other ideas Thanks

OK - its been over 30 days though ! I have started the reinstall of Wins 7 and keeping my fingers crossed

I upgraded to Wins 10 while ago, but now want to sell the machine as I have moved on to another machine, as this one had problems The recovery sector will take it back to Win 7 which I want to do to start afresh So my question is - will it be possible to upgrade to Wins 10 again on the same machine ???? Thanks

Sorted it Right click on it in Computer Management Choose "Assign Drive Letter" Solved Easy when u know how

OK I don't need to recover stuff because I can read it with an XP machine Why is it not readable on my Vista machine ??

Its NTFS I have done a disk check via XP using the Error checking and ticking the 2 boxes

Read as RAW in Computer Management in Vista Plug it into XP and I can read the files no problem Its a FREECOM 500GB external Hard drive I have another Freecom Drive that reads OK on Vista Any ideas

Oh How does that happen ??

Don't want to do that - settings etc Wins 7 works apart from LAN network

Yep Mainly because it was upgraded to Wins 10 - had problems, then reverted back to Wins 7 Since then the LAN network connection has not worked no matter what I have tried - driver - netsh commands - tweaking windows repair Its an Acer Z5761