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Recent content by Michael Hooker

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    Solved All trace of bluetooth gone

    No go with the system restore. I forgot that it's turned off by default, didn't I? I have switched it on now, but it's too late for what I want it for! Michael
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    Solved All trace of bluetooth gone

    Thank you, Bruce. The thing about Alzheimer's is, it doesn't (at my stage at least) reduce what the psychiatrists call your cognitive ability, that is your power to reason and work things out from your knowledge and the evidence in front of you and common sense. After hours of tests, my shrink...
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    Solved All trace of bluetooth gone

    I'm back again, and despite being very confused, I have working Bluetooth! I installed the chipset utility without problem. Quite when it happened I don't know, but I had a notification that there was a Windows update to deal with. Since I have signed in to this site (why did it let me type...
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    Solved All trace of bluetooth gone

    Hi Bruce. I'm afraid it's a lot more complicated than you suggested. The actual website, found after following a lot of false trails is (for the UK at least) here. Then it's a trial to find your specific laptop - clue, under "Product" select "Archive". You know it makes sense (to a sadistic...
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    Solved All trace of bluetooth gone

    Hi Bruce (my hero...) I installed 64 bit, it's a 64 bit laptop - all the defaults in that BIOS Window were right first time. OS was whatever was current in October 2015, and has been continuously updated by Microsoft ever since. It should have been Win 10. Past midnight now, I'll go look for...
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    Solved All trace of bluetooth gone

    Many thanks to Bruce for helping me get my Toshiba L70-C-12H going again, after what was apparently a hard disk failure. See recent thread: "Win 10 won't start on Toshiba Satellite L70C-12H - "Preparing Automatic Repair"" The machine now flies along not having any software on it yet beyond...
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    Solved Win 10 won't start on Toshiba Satellite L70C-12H - "Preparing Automatic Repair"

    Woohoo! Thank you <so> much Bruce for your help and patience. :thumbsup: All I had to do was sign in to my Microsoft account with the email address and password I had before, there was no problem about authentication. The machine has already installed a Windows 10 update and is now...
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    Solved Win 10 won't start on Toshiba Satellite L70C-12H - "Preparing Automatic Repair"

    The YouTube video worked and I'm now up to "getting files ready for installation (38%)." This is progress - I hope. Michael
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    Solved Win 10 won't start on Toshiba Satellite L70C-12H - "Preparing Automatic Repair"

    Thanks Bruce, but no luck yet. Just three abbreviations that mean nothing to me! The Asus HDD is apparently the wrong sort, an EFI drive is needed, whatever that is. I found this on YouTube, which may help. No harm in trying, is there? Michael
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    Solved Win 10 won't start on Toshiba Satellite L70C-12H - "Preparing Automatic Repair"

    Hi Bruce, I am now in a room full of dismantled laptops and & desktop, with enough cables snaking around to give Indiana Jones nightmares. First report: I took the case off the HP desktop so I could try the Toshiba HDD in it as we had discussed. What should be easy doesn't look so easy. The...
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    Solved Win 10 won't start on Toshiba Satellite L70C-12H - "Preparing Automatic Repair"

    OK, thanks, but there may be a delay, I want to clone that HDD first, I still have hopes of getting that particular laptop working again once I find a new fan. It has run happily for some hours since I put the HDD back in, sure it's a bit hot but I haven't been working it hard, I just...
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    Solved Win 10 won't start on Toshiba Satellite L70C-12H - "Preparing Automatic Repair"

    Anand here's the photo of the drives...
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    Solved Win 10 won't start on Toshiba Satellite L70C-12H - "Preparing Automatic Repair"

    Now I have three 2.5" HDDs and three dismantled laptops from the loft :oops:. The first two are tiny and the connection the wrong shape, but the third, on the right, looks to be just the job - it's 640 GB. It actually has Windows 10 on it from an Asus machine with a stuck fan assembly I can't...
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    Solved Win 10 won't start on Toshiba Satellite L70C-12H - "Preparing Automatic Repair"

    First stage done, the back is off the Toshiba - see photo. Having watched the video I referred to, with the BIOS battery clearly labelled, I was thinking that maybe replacing it would be a good idea. But then I was quite surprised to see that I don't have one. Huh? The usual googling...
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    Solved Win 10 won't start on Toshiba Satellite L70C-12H - "Preparing Automatic Repair"

    I'm happy to tinker inside the laptop. Actually the whole bottom has to be taken off on this particular model - see YouTube. I have several laptop drives I could repurpose, albeit much smaller than the Toshiba's in terms of megabytes, in the pile of junk in my loft that I mentioned earlier...
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