Thanks Wolfgang.
I've saved the PDF and will give them a go if I can get up the ambition. I was one of the many turned off by the whole idea of Metro and have only played with Win 8 for a few hours.
Mp3directcut works on Windows 7, if I recall correctly. Have not tried it on Win 8. Get it here: mp3DirectCut - editor to cut, fade, split and record compressed mpeg audio
I don't know if you saw my edited post with the links to how you can convert to basic and the tool to do it?
I have never used HP recovery disks. My guess would be that they would take you back to a factory state in spite of now having dynamic disks.
But I stand to be corrected on that.
You are in a bind.
You have dynamic volumes. Not good. You need to get rid of them. It's something of an involved procedure. You have to use a specialized tool like Partition Wizard.
Ultimately, you need to make an extended volume and then create a logical partition inside that extended...
Gman:
Yea, a long time member there.
5 minutes ago, when I posted, my post showed nothing but my avatar. But I see now that it has been upgraded with some other stuff. The moderators/admins at work I guess.
I just installed a few hours ago. Still fumbling around, near hopeless. Took me a half...
My first post on this forum. Busted back to buck private, not for the first time.
I'd guess your scores are normal.
Here is what I get with the current generation of onboard graphics on an Intel i5-2500 processor.
Better than yours, but still not very high. But plenty good enough if not gaming.