Recent content by kaysee

I will leave everything as it is (MBR and NTFS) on my computer as this is working for my current system. Many thanks to all who helped me to understand the differences between the old and the new protocols.

Napkins333 - thank you for explaining the different concepts between MBR and GPT (via the links). Very useful edification on my part. Osprey - When I booted from my installation DVD it stated that I could not install the OS on a GPT formatted partition (see my comments above). I had already...

Thank you for pointing me to links for more advice on this problem. Unfortunately none of the suggestions worked and I still could not access the hard drive to make any changes that would allow the computer to boot. I decided to start from scratch and reinstall WIndows 8.1 from the...

Dell 3000 PC Windows 8,1 64.bit 4 GB RAM When the computer boots it gets as far as the Windows 8.1 welcome screen but no further. I have tried to use a bootable Windows 8.1 installation disc to troubleshoot the problem. The Refresh option results in the error "The drive where Windows is...