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Boxerfan

(2,550 posts)
Tue Jan 28, 2020, 06:26 PM Jan 2020

I would avoid the windows 10 upgrade-My hard drive failed [View all]

And this seems to be a common occurrence.

I'm not sure what to do but lucky I saved my old PC-that is how I'm posting now. The unit I was using was a refurb but worked fine & had good specs. But after the windows 10 upgrade I started having crashes & boot problems. Then it just bsod'd & never returned.

I've lost a lot of photo's but not all-I had them on a CD. And joy of joys the thumb I had EVERYTHING on got wiped somehow. It can be recovered for a fee.

So I just ordered a cheap hard drive with windows 10 pre-installed. It is what I can afford to do for now & I hope it works.

It is probably too late but I would not try to get an old system to work with windows 10. From what I hear it even kills brand new PC's on a regular basis.

Correct me if this is wrong but from Google searches I see a big problem. Hope I'm wrong.

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