Recent content by tallen2_34

Hi All, My 2tb secondary hard drive is failing. My OS is on a separate SSD. I have my pictures, videos, documents, etc. on this drive as well as some programs. I bought a 3tb drive to replace it with. Because of the failing aspect of the drive, I cannot clone it after trying a few different...

Thank you for this detailed game plan. I will try to get to it next week. I don't want to do anything to the computer now as my wife has a webinar that she needs to do, so I don't want to make things worse! I'll post my results when I am able to find some time.

Yes, you are correct. The f2 is to enter the dell setup/bios menu and the f12 is boot sequence. I did notice that when I get to those screens, the navigation of those screens is very slow and jerky. The mouse doesn't track properly, it is delayed and jerky. Even the keyboard controls are...

Thanks everyone for the input. Sorry for the delay in getting bach, I was away for the weekend. I have updated my hardware specs. Everything was working fine under Windows 10, I would get 20-40 second boot ups. Everything is updated, including Bios. I do not have the Intel Optane. I do not...

Hi All, I finally bit the bullet and "upgraded" to Windows 11 thinking all the huge bugs have been worked out (famous last words). In any event, I upgraded to 11 from 10 on my Alienware R7 with a NVMW 256k boot disk. After the install, I now get very long bootups, usually between 7 and 10...