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February 26th, 2019 05:00
XPS ????, after Boot issue, what now?
8 months ago I re-imaged my XPS to Win10 from a Flash Drive. A few days ago I could not Boot, AutoRepair didn't work, and I could not go back to a previous version. Thinking I had to re-image, I was pressing F2 on Booting and Windows loaded! Everything looks OK but I don't trust the image now.
What is the best course of action: re-image or try some sort of repair? Thanks.
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speedstep
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February 26th, 2019 05:00
Get a new drive and enclosure and take the old drive and put in the enclosure.
Reinstall windows from scratch and recover your data.
Then us diskpart to clean the old drive and then swap and reinstall again.
That way if the drive is dying you have an additional backup.
https://www.amazon.com/Inateck-Aluminum-Enclosure-Support-FE3001/dp/B00UAA4J6G
Tesla1856
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February 26th, 2019 08:00
Backup important data and files.
gracin
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March 1st, 2019 06:00
Thanks for the advice!
My only question: why not have the old drive and new drive inside the computer (is there a need to have an outside enclosure?). Then I can format the new drive and install windows (it will be the master drive)
Vic384
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March 1st, 2019 07:00
Since you didn't say what model computer you have perhaps he assumed you have a laptop or all-in-one with no way to install another hard drive inside.
speedstep
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March 1st, 2019 08:00
The old drive in the computer could get worse if the failure is due to some other component failure like a power supply. When getting a new drive sometimes it does not reinstall due to other failure.
The reasoning is 2 fold.
1. putting a new drive inside will diagnose whether the old drive is failing.
2. If the new drive does not install you have more opportunity to recover your data somewhere else.