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Woke up this morning to a frozen Windows 8 screen. Only way out was to power off.
On reboot, my nightmare began.
No boot device. Long story short, I went through many attempts at a reset, repair, reinstalls, off the Windows 8 DVD, all to no avail. Indeed, when I booted into Dell diagnostics, it confirmed a failed hard drive.
(Sidebar : was there an automated patch pushed last night.....like there was for Win 7? I wonder if that's what helped clobber my 2 month old Dell ).
Keeping calm, I know I have all my data backed, up, but I am trying to avoid having to rebuild everything from scratch. I have been vigilant in doing image and file backups for years..... But I always manage to hit a brick wall somewhere along the way.
I have summarized what I have and do not have available to me here :
EaseUS Software • View topic - Need assistance with recovering from disk failure
..... And I hope to get some guidance from the EaseUs forum.... But I would appreciate any tips and cautions form the Windows 8 users here
Many thanks
On reboot, my nightmare began.
No boot device. Long story short, I went through many attempts at a reset, repair, reinstalls, off the Windows 8 DVD, all to no avail. Indeed, when I booted into Dell diagnostics, it confirmed a failed hard drive.
(Sidebar : was there an automated patch pushed last night.....like there was for Win 7? I wonder if that's what helped clobber my 2 month old Dell ).
Keeping calm, I know I have all my data backed, up, but I am trying to avoid having to rebuild everything from scratch. I have been vigilant in doing image and file backups for years..... But I always manage to hit a brick wall somewhere along the way.
I have summarized what I have and do not have available to me here :
EaseUS Software • View topic - Need assistance with recovering from disk failure
..... And I hope to get some guidance from the EaseUs forum.... But I would appreciate any tips and cautions form the Windows 8 users here
Many thanks
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows 8