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For those Who Care to Play: Acros SOOC + RAF
On 5/11/2017 1:48 AM, Bill W wrote:
On Thu, 11 May 2017 01:24:58 -0400, nospam wrote: In article , Bill W wrote: Well, I finally got my photo computer working again a little after I hung up on MS customer support, and a little before I reached the bomb threat level of frustration with them. what does it take to move beyond threat level and actually carry it out? After they told me I had to pay them to tell me how to fix the problem that *their* update caused, I was at the tipping point... And this was after I told them exactly what was wrong - a munged boot sector. "Oh, well at this level 1 customer support, no one knows anything about MBR's and those things. You have to get that info at level 2, our paid service". customer support is mostly useless, and at the larger companies, they just want to get you off the phone because they're rated on number of calls. It's almost exactly like ransomware, except that a lot of Googling came up with a fix. About 10 commands (bootrec & diskpart commands) typed into the command line - really about 60 seconds if you type fast, and it's fixed. The ridiculous part is that the Windows install/recovery files (Media creation files) come out differently depending on whether you choose to write them to a USB drive, or to a DVD. Some tools are missing in the USB version, and a couple of the commands fail, the critical one being bcdboot. welcome to windows. One of the last things I said to them was, " I guess this is why people move to Apple". It might be a couple of years, but next time I think I need something new, I will be looking at them for the first time. macs don't care if they're booted from internal or external drive, whether it's usb, firewire, thunderbolt or sata. as long as the system on the drive is compatible with the mac, it will boot, without any changes necessary. they can even boot and install macos over the internet to a blank hard drive. there is also a recovery partition, which is automatically installed (and is used for more than just recovery), so you don't actually need a separate emergency boot disk. All stuff I didn't know, but that points to the usual stumbling block - I'd have to learn a new system. I'm old... Actually there is not all that much difference, if you are just using some apps. nospam is trying to start a tools war. Please don't feed him. I'm afraid that I already bet, but will not go further. -- PeterN |
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On 2017-05-11 07:20:48 +0000, nospam said:
In article 2017051023131814915-savageduck1@REMOVESPAMmecom, Savageduck wrote: All stuff I didn't know, but that points to the usual stumbling block - I'd have to learn a new system. I'm old... No problem. My 94 year old father has his iMac and he seems to manage without too many problems. ...and the system he was using before he started using a Mac was pencil and paper. He is now on his third iMac, and has two laptops, a Powerbook Pro, and MacBook Pro which he seldom uses these days. However, I speak to him daily using Facetime. wtf is a powerbook pro? back then, the powerbook was the pro version, while the ibook was the consumer version. with the intel transition, they renamed them to macbook and macbook pro. Yeah! Yeah! It was a while back, and that laptop is long gone. -- Regards, Savageduck |
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On 2017-05-11 07:31:32 +0000, Bill W said:
On Wed, 10 May 2017 23:13:18 -0700, Savageduck wrote: On 2017-05-11 05:48:59 +0000, Bill W said: On Thu, 11 May 2017 01:24:58 -0400, nospam wrote: In article , Bill W wrote: Well, I finally got my photo computer working again a little after I hung up on MS customer support, and a little before I reached the bomb threat level of frustration with them. what does it take to move beyond threat level and actually carry it out? After they told me I had to pay them to tell me how to fix the problem that *their* update caused, I was at the tipping point... And this was after I told them exactly what was wrong - a munged boot sector. "Oh, well at this level 1 customer support, no one knows anything about MBR's and those things. You have to get that info at level 2, our paid service". customer support is mostly useless, and at the larger companies, they just want to get you off the phone because they're rated on number of calls. It's almost exactly like ransomware, except that a lot of Googling came up with a fix. About 10 commands (bootrec & diskpart commands) typed into the command line - really about 60 seconds if you type fast, and it's fixed. The ridiculous part is that the Windows install/recovery files (Media creation files) come out differently depending on whether you choose to write them to a USB drive, or to a DVD. Some tools are missing in the USB version, and a couple of the commands fail, the critical one being bcdboot. welcome to windows. One of the last things I said to them was, " I guess this is why people move to Apple". It might be a couple of years, but next time I think I need something new, I will be looking at them for the first time. macs don't care if they're booted from internal or external drive, whether it's usb, firewire, thunderbolt or sata. as long as the system on the drive is compatible with the mac, it will boot, without any changes necessary. they can even boot and install macos over the internet to a blank hard drive. there is also a recovery partition, which is automatically installed (and is used for more than just recovery), so you don't actually need a separate emergency boot disk. All stuff I didn't know, but that points to the usual stumbling block - I'd have to learn a new system. I'm old... No problem. My 94 year old father has his iMac and he seems to manage without too many problems. He's probably smart... He is an old P-47 & P-38 fighter pilot who survived two tours in WWII. So he is pretty smart. -- Regards, Savageduck |
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In article , David B.
wrote: Do you know what processes occur if/when one uses 'First Aid' (Disk Utility)? it's a wrapper on fsck. Can it REALLY fix things which are wrong? depends what's wrong. although apple improved fsck a *lot* over what existed before (it had to, because fsck was mostly crap), fsck is nowhere near as good as diskwarrior, which is amazing in how well it can fix file system corruption. |
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In article , PeterN
wrote: customer support is mostly useless, and at the larger companies, they just want to get you off the phone because they're rated on number of calls. With some companies, that is true. I have had good experiences with HP, Adobe, and yes, even MS. I think it depends on who you get, and how his wife treated him last night. it's usually faster to search online for a solution. My machine had a compatibility issue with an HP product. I consider it a miracle that after MS claimed it was an HP issue, and HP said it was an MS issue, I was able to get an HP guy and MS guy on a conference call. Turned out to be an MS issue, that could not be resolved. welcome to windows. It's almost exactly like ransomware, except that a lot of Googling came up with a fix. About 10 commands (bootrec & diskpart commands) typed into the command line - really about 60 seconds if you type fast, and it's fixed. The ridiculous part is that the Windows install/recovery files (Media creation files) come out differently depending on whether you choose to write them to a USB drive, or to a DVD. Some tools are missing in the USB version, and a couple of the commands fail, the critical one being bcdboot. welcome to windows. |
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In article , PeterN
wrote: It's almost exactly like ransomware, except that a lot of Googling came up with a fix. About 10 commands (bootrec & diskpart commands) typed into the command line - really about 60 seconds if you type fast, and it's fixed. The ridiculous part is that the Windows install/recovery files (Media creation files) come out differently depending on whether you choose to write them to a USB drive, or to a DVD. Some tools are missing in the USB version, and a couple of the commands fail, the critical one being bcdboot. welcome to windows. One of the last things I said to them was, " I guess this is why people move to Apple". It might be a couple of years, but next time I think I need something new, I will be looking at them for the first time. macs don't care if they're booted from internal or external drive, whether it's usb, firewire, thunderbolt or sata. as long as the system on the drive is compatible with the mac, it will boot, without any changes necessary. they can even boot and install macos over the internet to a blank hard drive. there is also a recovery partition, which is automatically installed (and is used for more than just recovery), so you don't actually need a separate emergency boot disk. Same with windows. definitely not. And no, I am not going further with this. wise choice. |
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In article , Bill W
wrote: All stuff I didn't know, but that points to the usual stumbling block - I'd have to learn a new system. I'm old... meanwhile, you're futzing with fixing windows rather than actually doing useful stuff with the computer... Exactly, and over several days this time. That PC was down for over a week. yikes. |
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On 11/05/2017 13:46, Savageduck wrote:
On 2017-05-11 07:31:32 +0000, Bill W said: He's probably smart... He is an old P-47 & P-38 fighter pilot who survived two tours in WWII. So he is pretty smart. He's certainly is most fortunate to still be here! Are you aware of THIS place? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambri...y_and_Memorial -- David B. |
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On 2017-05-11 13:19:43 +0000, "David B." said:
On 11/05/2017 13:46, Savageduck wrote: On 2017-05-11 07:31:32 +0000, Bill W said: He's probably smart... He is an old P-47 & P-38 fighter pilot who survived two tours in WWII. So he is pretty smart. He's certainly is most fortunate to still be here! Are you aware of THIS place? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambri...y_and_Memorial I wasn't until now. Thanks for that bit of information. My father flew his war in the SW Pacific, New Guinea, Bismark Archipelago, Borneo, Philipinnes, Okinawa, and finally Japan. https://www.dropbox.com/s/ngx2hzfiveuw00b/HRO-NG44P38.jpg ....and his current status: https://www.dropbox.com/s/185dtm3e9ukpurn/IMG_0068w.jpg -- Regards, Savageduck |
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For those Who Care to Play: Acros SOOC + RAF
On 5/11/2017 1:48 AM, Bill W wrote:
On Thu, 11 May 2017 01:24:58 -0400, nospam wrote: In article , Bill W wrote: Well, I finally got my photo computer working again a little after I hung up on MS customer support, and a little before I reached the bomb threat level of frustration with them. what does it take to move beyond threat level and actually carry it out? After they told me I had to pay them to tell me how to fix the problem that *their* update caused, I was at the tipping point... And this was after I told them exactly what was wrong - a munged boot sector. "Oh, well at this level 1 customer support, no one knows anything about MBR's and those things. You have to get that info at level 2, our paid service". customer support is mostly useless, and at the larger companies, they just want to get you off the phone because they're rated on number of calls. It's almost exactly like ransomware, except that a lot of Googling came up with a fix. About 10 commands (bootrec & diskpart commands) typed into the command line - really about 60 seconds if you type fast, and it's fixed. The ridiculous part is that the Windows install/recovery files (Media creation files) come out differently depending on whether you choose to write them to a USB drive, or to a DVD. Some tools are missing in the USB version, and a couple of the commands fail, the critical one being bcdboot. welcome to windows. One of the last things I said to them was, " I guess this is why people move to Apple". It might be a couple of years, but next time I think I need something new, I will be looking at them for the first time. macs don't care if they're booted from internal or external drive, whether it's usb, firewire, thunderbolt or sata. as long as the system on the drive is compatible with the mac, it will boot, without any changes necessary. they can even boot and install macos over the internet to a blank hard drive. there is also a recovery partition, which is automatically installed (and is used for more than just recovery), so you don't actually need a separate emergency boot disk. All stuff I didn't know, but that points to the usual stumbling block - I'd have to learn a new system. I'm old... If you're able to figure out and resolve an issue of this sort like you did, learning a new OS shouldn't be a problem for you. |
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