Recent content by Baeolophus

Point well taken!

Years ago, before APFS arrived on the Mac, I used to use Data Rescue with some success. I have never done such a thing on Windows, but the day for it may have come.

Part of why I don’t have more information is that it’s a friend’s hard drive. Withe the right utility software, I may be able to do it myself. That’s why I started a new thread exploring that tack.

This is a follow-up to my earlier post. It may not be necessary to send the drive in. Maybe running a utility program on it would suffice. What’s the best solution?

I guess, I am a bit U.S.-centric. Anywhere in the U.S. would be fine.

It still spins. The idea would be to send it in somewhere.

What hard drive recovery services do you recommend?

What happens, when I try to activate a newly installed Windows 11 or a machine with Windows 11 Home on it, with a Windows 10 Pro activation code?

My PC is currently on 22H2. I just went to Settings → Windows Update, and it proceeded to download 23H2. How do I prevent that from installing and get it to never automatically install itself again?

Why the heck would Lenovo sell this unit with Windows 11 Pro preinstalled in their store on Amazon, then? She trusted that the computer would be suitable for Windows 11 Pro.

She says, it’s been like that from the beginning.

Not sure, what exactly you mean by the CPU running out of juice. Could you please explain?

Everything takes forever. Images in the Microsoft Store take a couple of minutes to load (it’s not the network speed). Sections in Settings take a long time to fully show. Logging in is very slow. Everything is super sluggish. How do I benchmark the drive?

A client of mine purchased this small form factor computer from Amazon: Lenovo ThinkCentre M625 Tiny Desktop PC (AMD A4-9120c 2-Core, 32GB RAM, 512GB SSD, AMD Radeon R4…). It shipped with Windows 11 Pro installed. However, it runs super sluggish. Is it, because a 2-core 1.6 GHz processor is...

That’s why I love my Mac!