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OK, assuming that the data drive in question is a mechanical drive and not an SSD..... and is worth saving. There is a old program, that I still have but seldom use, called "Low Level Formatter". (LLF) It literally scrubs the surface of the 'Platters', writing different bit patterns over and...

Out of ten PC's, I think I only have Windows 8.1/Pro on one of them. I started out in 1980, with my first home made PC, running DOS 2.0. And I've had just about every MS OS since then. I'll get and run the latest OS, learn how to tweak and tune it for max performance, till the next one comes...

This old forum is getting sleepy. Not many people wanting to install Windows 8.1 any more. And not too many asking questions about it either. But, why even bother? Windows 8.1 was a really GREAT OS, back when it was first released. But that was a long time ago now. It's already OLD and out of...

Being not familiar with the Dell Vostro laptop, or that error code, I'm just going to ask you,,,, How old is this Laptop? And, what was the original OS? How much ram does it have, and is the hard drive mechanical or SSD? I wouldn't have any problem at all, installing Windows 8.1/Pro/ 32 or...

I did find a free Windows 10/Pro/32 ISO, and I'm not running that OS on my really old Dell laptop. Runs Great! While surfing the WWW recently, I found a site featuring "Tiny 11" a thoroughly stripped down version of Windows 11/Pro/64. It's 2GB smaller than the OEM version. All the conditions...

And again! I found in my collection, another pretty old Dell Latitude 131L, Laptop, that definitely will not run any 64 bit OS, even though when I run "System", it says the laptop has a "x64 -based processor". They lied! That cpu is an AMD Sempron 3500+, or so it seems. If the cpu is 64 bit...

Back at it again! I used to do weekly dumster diving, behind a computer shop, and I wound up with several old Dell laptops, deemed too old to repair. One is a Dell Latitude D820, and it has a 64 bit capable motherboard and CPU. It's been running Windows 8.1/Pro/32 for several years. Just out of...

Hi there! I'm surprised that no one has responded to your post. Because there are still quite a bunch of us Windows 8.1 fans out here. Even though I still have Win-8.1 on about 7 PC's and a Netbook, the one I'm typing on now is one that I had to totally refurbish earlier this year, and it's...

In the last post, I see only Intel cpu's being mentioned. What happened to AMD? I've bought nothing but AMD Cpu's since the 286 days. I do have several PC's with various Intel chips in them, but they were Given to me, as junk, and I certainly did not pay for them. In post #18 above, I...

I can't believe how little action this forum is getting these days. Where have all the 8.1 users gone? My latest escapade is to transplant an OS from another almost identical PC to this one, when this one started having problems. I could no longer do a System Restore. And I did not have a...

How could they be useless, when they ran the world for decades, and are still in use every day, in business and industry. I currently have 12 computers, and half of them are 32 bit machines. Those all run Windows 8.1/Pro/32. And run it very well, thank you.

If the data on the drive is not yours, and you don't need it anyway, why not boot up the laptop with a Flash Drive with another OS on it, like Win-10 or 11, and just make it a clean install. That's what I'd do. In fact, I did something very similar, just recently to an HP laptop that was given...

I don't have a clue! Now, if someone could come up with a way to run Windows 11 on a 32 bit cpu, they could make a fortune. I have 12 PC's and only half of them have 64 bit CPU's.

Back in the saddle again. My friend, who gave me money for a new motherboard, for my Main PC, had a bit of bad luck himself. His own motherboard quit working. And since I no longer build new computers, he bought a new one from a local shop. Then he gave me back the Mid Tower Desktop PC that I...

Hopefully, since the OP started this thread in 2014, he's either fixed the problem or.......

Ah yes, the old Infamous "MS Office". I gave up on that with Office 2007, when it seemed like it was trying to take over my PC. lol After UN-Installing it, I did a registry cleaning and got rid of 30 MB of left over garbage in my registry. I've only used Open Office or Libre Office, since then.

I have 8.1 running happily on a little Acer One Netbook, with only 1.5GB of ram, but with a 120GB SSD. I've disabled all the MS BS, and only run what's 100% needed. Then I do have it tweaked and tuned for MAX performance. Yes, it's still slow, and painfully small and hard to read, but it's a...

A nice thing about the Windows Installer is that it can install Windows XX on just about any hard drive with an existing OS on it. The installer will stop, and show me the partition configuration on the drive and basically ask me what I want it to do. I just instruct it to DELETE all...

I'm not sure where you're going with that thought. There is virtually nothing that I ran in Windows 8.1, (or even Win-7) that I cannot run in Windows 11/Pro/64. Admittedly, with some of the programs I like to run, I've downloaded updates to those programs. But then, I always like to keep all...

The SAGA continues! My old desktop PC has been sitting under my work bench, since the motherboard crapped out on me several months ago. Since I could not afford a replacement motherboard, I had written the old PC off as a lost cause. Then one day, a couple of weeks ago, a really good friend...