Recent content by bobkn

That's incorrect. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/minimum/supported/windows-11-25h2-supported-intel-processors Note the 9th generation Core I7. https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/series/134907/9th-generation-intel-core-i7-processors.html

Bitlocker keys are 48 characters long. The obvious conclusion is that your drive was Bitlocker encrypted. (I believe that encryption is the default in newer Win11 installations.) I've never used Bitlocker, but the key is supposed to be available in your Microsoft account. I wish you good luck.

Not sure what you refer to. For me, 11 should have been labelled 10.1. The big change was making some hardware security features mandatory, which excluded quite a few PCs.

I think it should be compatible. https://gzhls.at/blob/ldb/a/4/d/e/729c0b7fe1b46f97d195385bd5c4919b87eb.pdf

"propitiatory"? Possibly not the word that you meant. https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/propitiatory The business seems to be moving into a phase where companies are starting to want revenue from their investments in AI. The price tag may be unexpectedly high for some...

I haven't checked the Gigabyte Z790 UD AC, but there's a chance that the power settings in the BIOS for the CPU are too aggressive. I don't know about Gigabyte, but on some Asus board the default power settings were originally set above Intel's recommendations. You can set limits that will keep...

It probably won't help, but providing your system specs might be a good idea.

Go to the link I provided. exFAT is explicitly mentioned. (Scroll down, or search the page.) exFAT is a Windows format, but newer MacOS version can read and write exFAT drives. Which is why Seagate uses it.

Checking its specs, it appears that a Seagate Expansion drive would come from the company formatted as ExFAT to allow read/write access from both Windows and MacOS. The partitions you mention seem to be different from what I'd expect, though. If it was mine, I'd probably use DiskPart to remove...

It's there now.

You could be clearer. Are you trying to rip audio CDs or DVDs?

Visible in the BIOS settings? Unexpected.

NT? Few home users have stayed with that since XP was released in 2001.

That's presumably the iGPU. I don't know whether it's possible to configure VirtIO for your purpose.

One thing I don't notice as having been mentioned: SMR (shingled magnetic recording) vs CMR (conventional magnetic recording) drives. SMR achieves a higher density than CMR, at some performance cost. An enthusiast would avoid SMR. Whether such a drive would be adequate for editing video, I have...