Recent content by pauvila

I have created an Ubuntu bootable USB, and I have booted from the USB. The Ubuntu installation screen appears correctly, and I can follow the various installation steps. I guess this means that the RAM memory is fine. However, when I reach the point in the setup where it asks me to choose which...

Hi, I have a 6-months old, Windows 8.1 Dell Inspiron Laptop with a traditional HDD drive and 32GB SSD drive. I have never understood how they both work together, Dell says that the 32GB SSD is used for storing the computer cache so that the 5200RPM drive is used to store the less frequently...

Thanks theog, I know that, but my question is: when I run the repair commands, given that I could not mark the Windows partition as active because the drive is GPT, how do I know that those commands are trying to restore the correct drive and not another one which is not the one that contains...

Thanks for your help, theog. I have a couple of comments regarding your suggestions: - I tried using diskpart, but as I commented in the original post, I can't mark the partition which contains the Windows folder (in my case partition 5) as active, because I get an error saying that it is not...

Thanks for your help, topgundcp. I tried start up repair but I get the following message: "Startup repair could not repair your PC. The log file has been saved to C:/Windows/System32/Logfiles/Srt/SrtTrail.txt". I then clicked "advanced options", opened the command prompt, typed "notepad"...

Hi, I have a Dell Inspiron 7000 series running Windows 8.1. After installing a Windows update, my computer booted into a black screen. I downloaded a Windows 8.1 ISO and made a bootable USB, from there I tried to repair the start and also used the various variations of the bootrec.exe command...