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Question

Booting problems win 10

Feb 26, 2016 6:17AM PST

Hi,
Installed win 10 with no problems and it has been running successfully for a good while. Recently I have had some booting problems, not all the time but every so often the boot sits there with a black screen showing ACER and nothing happens. If you sit long enough it will boot with no other problems. I tried looking at the boot section and switched it to normal as it was on something else which I cannot remember. Any help would be well received.

Tantalus

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Just a week or so ago
Feb 26, 2016 7:27AM PST

Same thing, another laptop, the HDD was dying. You can wait for it but before that, always be ready for a wipe out like that.

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Replace HDD
Feb 28, 2016 8:53AM PST

My computer had WIN7 already installed on it with no disk to accompany it. If I fit a new HDD will I then have problems re-installing Win 10 or will it just refuse to anything.

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Here, last week
Feb 28, 2016 8:59AM PST

Another laptop other than the one I wrote about. This time my brother's laptop.

A fine test of the new W10 activation system where once you've installed W10 there is no key but a hardware hash is made and checked. I'll not expand on that as this is on the web.

WHAT IT MEANS and I have tested this a few too many times is that if the HDD fails I can install W10 (of the same version) to the PC without any activation hassle.

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Booting solved!!!!
Mar 2, 2016 8:45AM PST

Hi,
Hope that what I am saying is correct but last week my wife turned off the internet, computers etc., and said why is there still a yellow light on. When I looked it was one of my extension HDDs so I didn't give it much thought until it happened again. Intrigued I started looking into it as normally when I switch the computer off it also goes off. Fiddling with the HDD it started going on and off and eventually went off altogether so I pulled all of the wires out so it was no longer disconnected. Now my computer boots in perfectly with no problems and has done so for the last four days. I hope that it was the problem although I never thought of it as the computer always bots from drive c and I didn't think any other drive would interfere with this. Hoping with fingers etc., crossed.

Yours

Tantalus

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Possible explainer.
Mar 2, 2016 8:50AM PST

Think about the BIOS that checks for the drive to be ready. Drive says "wait while I get ready" and never is ready. I've seen this a few times over the years.