Recent content by 6ofTentacles

Vincenzo, There are some hidden files and some system files down in there. I gave that laptop back yesterday so I'm back to my previous I-have-no-Windows-8-in-the-house state. In Win 7 you can inventory all the hidden files in a profile and all the subdirectories beneath it easily. Go to...

> If you disabled UEFI and boot WinPE in "Legacy/CSM" mode, "mountvol" may probably fail. Try booting from a "WinPE 4.0 x64" > with UEFI and "SecureBoot" enabled and then run the mountvol command. Thanks, Anshad. I'll try it your way next time this comes up.

One last point, about the new user I created. When she signs in Windows goes straight to the old-fashioned desktop instead of the Start Screen. (Windows 8.0 isn't even supposed to be able to do that.) The owner had it going to the Start Screen and I'd like to restore that behavior if I can. But...

Department of long-winded updates: This sure has been one of those damned learning experiences that I try so hard to avoid :-) I did at last get a safety backup of the laptop in its initial state. What it has is Windows 8.0 which is still, according to several tutorials I found, supposed to...

Ha, found it. It was because I had javascript blocked. > If i assumed correctly, your "Macrium" might be based on "WinPE 3.1" ( Windows 7 PE ) which won't > support "USB 3.0" out of the box. It's the one built and maintained by eightforums senior member whs. Can't say which version of WinPE...

crawfish and Anshad Edavana, I'll reply at length when I've figured out why the message editor is chopping out all my line and paragraph breaks and trying to post one great big ugly lump of text. It didn't do that to my first post (which was also prepared in a separate editor window and pasted...

Didn't say I knew, just that I hoped. I'll install and run Malwarebytes at some point and maybe do a couple of the online scanners. First priority, though, is to get a system image backup in the exact state the owners gave it to me, malware (if any) and all. Which is proving problematic. As I...

Hope not but we'll see. I did find a long, wiggly route through the boot menus to safe mode and logged on as boss's daughter. In safe mode her login is fine. I'm running chkdsk now. maybe that will get the drives marked clean and make clonezilla happy and I'll get my safety image. But then now...

Hi, all! I have had my boss's daughter's laptop at my house all weekend, hoping to solve a bizarre problem I have never seen before for them. Windows 8.0 (I think, I'll get to that later!), HP Pavilion g7 notebook (64 bit, AMD.) The main symptom is that when the daughter logs in her desktop...