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Windows 7 Ultimate - lost control of virtually everything, but that's now solved!
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<blockquote data-quote="jeallen01" data-source="post: 1040863" data-attributes="member: 176704"><p>Stone cold sober (11am in the morning) and sweating a bit!</p><p></p><p>OK, some more info & clues: </p><p>- yesterday afternoon and this morning I got an Win7 Ultimate ISO file and a Product Key from ebay, and then wrote the ISO to a bootable flashdrive using the "Rufus" app, and then tried to run the Setup process on that from Windows Explorer on the laptop (which could see the drive) to see if I could at least get into "repair mode", but I got the message from Setup that "Windows could not retrieve information about the disks on this computer" and then it terminated.</p><p>- Similar thing happened when I tried to run Setup from the Win 7 Home Premium Recovery Disk that came with the laptop - but, of course, it's now on Ultimate (Pro with a few bells & whistles).</p><p></p><p>Didn't take me long after that to track down, find and start fixing the problems!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jeallen01, post: 1040863, member: 176704"] Stone cold sober (11am in the morning) and sweating a bit! OK, some more info & clues: - yesterday afternoon and this morning I got an Win7 Ultimate ISO file and a Product Key from ebay, and then wrote the ISO to a bootable flashdrive using the "Rufus" app, and then tried to run the Setup process on that from Windows Explorer on the laptop (which could see the drive) to see if I could at least get into "repair mode", but I got the message from Setup that "Windows could not retrieve information about the disks on this computer" and then it terminated. - Similar thing happened when I tried to run Setup from the Win 7 Home Premium Recovery Disk that came with the laptop - but, of course, it's now on Ultimate (Pro with a few bells & whistles). Didn't take me long after that to track down, find and start fixing the problems! [/QUOTE]
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