Current Events > Alright, CE, a friend of mine gave me their computer saying if I can fix it

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I can have it.

Apparently it's very slow and it's got something called a kernel data Inpage error that shows up at random times preventing him from doing anything. Can I do this without spending money?
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Google kernel data something? Its usually what i do when something weird happens
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maybe

google is your friend
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I just tried a system restore and it says there's a problem with local disk C and to repair, currently doing that now to see what happens.
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He wants you to delete the child porn. And then when you give it back to him and the feds catch him he's going to blame it his friend that "fixed" it for him.
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If you can't fix it, do you have to give it back? o_O
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Try slapping your wiener on it
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Install linix. Problem solved.

DevsBro posted...

If you can't fix it, do you have to give it back? o_O

No, he doesn't care what happens to it because he got a new laptop ages ago since he couldn't figure out what's wrong with this one

anyway what I've been show

it says htis now
Unable to rest your PC. A required drive partition is missing.

Ah, shit, CE, what's this mean?
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why not just format the entire drive and do a clean install?
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SauI_Goodman posted...

He wants you to...

Beat me to it
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Kombucha posted...

why not just format the entire drive and do a clean install?

what?

A what?
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You'd probably need a bootable usb with windows in it. Google and Torrent is your friend.
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https://www.howtogeek.com/224342/how-to-clean-install-windows-10/
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Can I do this with an SD card? Because that's all I have at the moment
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yeah
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d0 it

Kombucha posted...

why not just format the entire drive and do a clean install?

Bingo

This is taking way longer than I assumed it would It's been almost an hour of looking at this

Software is being installed

When complete, your system may automatically restart. Please do not turn off your computer during this process.

I think I should have done this later on but I'm busy tomorrow so it's now or never.
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Well that didn't go so well

The good news is that everything that once was on it is gone

The bad news is that apparently it was incomplete
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Kombucha posted...

https://www.howtogeek.com/224342/how-to-clean-install-windows-10/

If you're doing this, do it via the clean install media, not via Recovery Mode. Trust me.

When it asks about partitioning, delete all existing partitions, then just install to the now-empty drive.
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tremain07 posted...

Well that didn't go so well

The good news is that everything that once was on it is gone

The bad news is that apparently it was incomplete

Details? Surely there's an option to repair your install on the bootable SD card.
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It might be worth buying a new hard drive for the computer. You can do this remote install thing on a new hard drive, presumably.

Like I'm not as knowledgeable as I could be, but it sounds like something could be wrong with the drive itself. If you buy a new hard drive, then things should go a lot more smoothly - and on top of that, you can upgrade to whatever size you want, and not have to stick with whatever size the laptop came with.
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Just try to install ubuntu on it and see if it works
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Shadowplay posted...

Details? Surely there's an option to repair your install on the bootable SD card.

Well there really weren't any, it just said that it was an incomplete restoration and restarted again now there's no password prompt or anything left on here it's windows 8 9200 with no name but administrator I'm trying to put my wifi network's key in to see how the net was affected
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Ah, here we go, this is what's shown after that

System preparation tool 3.14

system preparation tool (sysprep) prepares the machine for hardware independence and clean up

system cleanup action

Enter system out of the box experience (OOBE)
Enter system Audit Mode
Generalize

Shutdown Options
Reboot
Quit
Shutdown

What on earth
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