I have had this Samsung laptop for just about a year. It came with windows 8
installed ( I also have a Samsung system recovery disk that I requested)
and I have had problems all along. My old laptop had windows vista and I
think part of the problem is that my settings somehow were synched with my
old computer. My old computer had a workgroup, which got synched with my
new computer. I have tried several times to reset/restore windows 8 to factory
settings and at first glance it looks right but a lot of my old settings are still
there, especially in internet explorer. Also when I go into advanced repair it says
that it cannot be repaired. I would appreciate any help.
Thank you,
Karen
p.s.
I also just found this, but I'm not sure it applies and I don't want to change any
settings that I shouldn't be:
Please note that you cannot use Refresh or Reset Your PC features if Windows 8 or
8.1 is installed on a drive with GPT (not MBR) partition table until you force "UEFI
only" boot setting in BIOS/EFI. Windows will not detect GPT partition alignment correctly if BIOS booting is enabled.
And this is what shows under my available drives:
available drives
local disk (C (System)
SAMSUNG_REC2
(C (Missing)
installed ( I also have a Samsung system recovery disk that I requested)
and I have had problems all along. My old laptop had windows vista and I
think part of the problem is that my settings somehow were synched with my
old computer. My old computer had a workgroup, which got synched with my
new computer. I have tried several times to reset/restore windows 8 to factory
settings and at first glance it looks right but a lot of my old settings are still
there, especially in internet explorer. Also when I go into advanced repair it says
that it cannot be repaired. I would appreciate any help.
Thank you,
Karen
p.s.
I also just found this, but I'm not sure it applies and I don't want to change any
settings that I shouldn't be:
Please note that you cannot use Refresh or Reset Your PC features if Windows 8 or
8.1 is installed on a drive with GPT (not MBR) partition table until you force "UEFI
only" boot setting in BIOS/EFI. Windows will not detect GPT partition alignment correctly if BIOS booting is enabled.
And this is what shows under my available drives:
available drives
local disk (C (System)
SAMSUNG_REC2
(C (Missing)
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My Computer
System One
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- OS
- windows 8
- Computer type
- Laptop
- System Manufacturer/Model
- Samsung
- Browser
- IE 10