Recent content by Andromyde

I really hope someone can help me--I have no recovery media, no recovery partition (thanks to gateway) and no idea how it got from what seemed like a normal update to...this. I'll start from the beginning. Tonight I went to restart my computer and surprisingly it needed to update though it...

Not sure why that matters, but I want to dual boot with a Linux distro (I have a more than one in mind). It's easy enough to do on Windows 7, I know that from experience. I don't want to run it as a Virtual Machine. I have a feeling that even if I gave up trying to dual boot, I'd run into...

I tried to edit the attributes but command prompt would have none of it. Also tried shrinking/partitioning through DISKPART. Didn't work. I did find a way to get my hard drive partitioned and now I feel kind of dumb. I ended up just downloading and trying a partitioning tool and it worked like...

Sorry to trouble you guys, but like it says in the title, I'm finding that I am unable to disable secure boot. I can change the boot mode from UEFI to Legacy BIOS and that disables secure boot, but in Legacy mode I can't do what I'm trying to. I can't select the Secure Boot menu in the BIOS...

@Saltgrass Thank you for your time. I'm sorry to say I never looked into this stuff before the update--being pretty new to this stuff I never thought to look at any of this until I went to make a partition (to dual boot with Linux Mint). This is really vexing. I tried to install Linux mint...

I need to create a partition on my PC and I've followed tutorials but I always run into the same problem: Right clicking a volume in disk management only gives me a "help" option. I've connected external storage and it gives me the menu shown in the tutorials/how-tos. Is there something I'm...