Root Access

barlop

18:03

you know Win XP had a repair installation option..

that could run when you booted off the cd.

and Windows 7 removed that option(from win7) / made that option ineffective

well, i'm wondering if win10 brought the option back?

or if win8 did? or if neither did.

Ben N

A refresh is kind of that

Rahul2001

And repair disks exist for Windows 8 and 10

Ramhound

they never removed it.

Refresh is on Windows 8 is something else entirely

Refresh on Windows 8 is basically Reset and Keep everything, and Reset is keep nothing

Windows 10 only has Reset and those options

barlop

18:27

AT Ramhound, then win8 refresh sounds like the win xp repair

if it also lets you run it from boot

does win10 have that or anything like it? that lets you "keep everything"?

DavidPostill

@barlop Yes, if by "keep everything" you mean your personal files only.

How to Refresh Windows 10

Ramhound

but Reset/Refresh isn't a repair

Windows 10 has that with DISM

and SFC

but both Reset/Refresh actually uninstall your programs so there is still a repair feature

DavidPostill

@Ramhound Yes. How to Repair Corrupted Windows System Files with the SFC and DISM Commands should get @barlop started

It is unclear exactly what he wants to do ...

barlop

have you not seen a winxp repair installation david?

AT Ramhound. Do you know what a win xp repair is? (I ask not to demean you, but because you didn't know last time)

DavidPostill

@barlop Yes. I'm telling what you have to do instead with Windows 10.

Ramhound

18:41

,,,,

I used Windows XP for 10 years

barlop

@DavidPostill so isn't it totally clear what I want to do then?

AT Ramhound yeah you said that last time that you'd used it for 10 years, but you hadn't used the feature and weren't aware of it. Despite your 10 years of using xp.

Ramhound

It's WinRE

well its not called that because WinRE is the successor to it

barlop

what is the difference between win re and win pe?

Ben N

It is my understanding that WinRE is the WinPE OS plus some recovery tools

Ramhound

You asking because your testing me or your asking because you don't know?

DavidPostill

18:45

@barlop No it's not. You asked where is the repair installation option on the install CD. And we replied that there isn't one and to try doing something else instead.

Ramhound

WinRE is WinRE but the recovery environment

barlop

AT Ramhound, because I don't know.

Ramhound

WinPE stands for Windows Preinstallation Environment

barlop

and i'm asking what's teh difference

@DavidPostill is that DISM process as all-encompassing?

Ramhound

You can boot to a "desktop" with WinPE, WinRE is console based, but still considered to be the environment

DavidPostill

18:46

When to use WinPE and WinRE

Ramhound

After XP SP1 XP even used it

DavidPostill

"The biggest differences between WinPE and WinRE as they work in the .wim files just built is that WinPE loads network drivers and offers a more complete Vista-like command-line environment, while WinRE offers more and better boot- and disk-management and recovery tools."

Ramhound

The so called "recovery disk" just generated a disk with the environment on it

The same environment that exists on the installation disk

You can put disk-management and recovery tools on WinPE, i.e. Acronis, runs within WinPE

many disk partition software have their own winPE disks

barlop

ok.. WinRE is like a replacement for the recovery console plus a few other things liek a basic thing to fix startup problems

DavidPostill

@barlop No idea. I'm on Windows 7 and have so far refused to install Windows 8., 8.1 or 10 :)

barlop

18:49

so basically this is winre upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/43/…

Ramhound

That's the current look of the recovery console, yes

recovery console == winRE

They just changed the look of it

barlop

not just the look.

In XP the recovery console was just a command prompt

now it's a bunch of things plus a command prompt.

Ramhound

Ok?

That's like saying a green apple isn't an apple because its not a red apple

barlop

David, you say you are still on win7, have you not bought the idea that win10 is good? It seems most people say it's better than win7

DavidPostill

19:03

@barlop No, I haven't bought the idea.

barlop

what puts you off?

DavidPostill

I don't want to configure my system all over again when it works perfectly well.

Boris_yo

@Psycogeek Used Duracell CopperTop and Procell? The latter have reputation of being for industrial usage, thus higher quality... There is also IKEA AA that are claimed to be little known secret because they perform like popular brands, if not better and yet are very cheap...

Ramhound

Amazon's brand is known to be good also

Boris_yo

19:30

@Ramhound Quality differs from batch to batch...

Ramhound

19:50

That's prolly because they switch China suppliers ever week :-)

bwDraco

Another big bowl of porridge...

Ramhound

Purposefull FUNNY statement: Trump will stop that :-)

bwDraco

(Mother makes oatmeal every day, mainly for Father, but we eat some too)

bwDraco

20:07

This question is frequently asked here. Most likely your flash drive is corrupted beyond repair. There is a canonical answer for this question here. Give the checked answer to the question a read. — n8te Dec 6 '16 at 6:31

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Q: What can I do if my USB flash drive is write-protected or read-only?

When I plug in my USB flash drive, it shows up on my computer as write-protected or read-only. I am unable to transfer data to it, nor can I modify or delete any files already stored on it. I also cannot repartition or reformat the drive using Windows Disk Management, DiskPart, GParted, or other ...

Jeez. People ask the exact same question all the time.

A mod will want to check this link out.

djsmiley2k

Burgi

21:06

wtf... 312MB for a USB wifi driver?

bwDraco

23:01

Why am I not surprised...

> HP Battery Alert

The system has detected the storage capacity of the battery stated below to be very low. For optimal performance, this battery may need to be replaced.

Primary (Internal) Battery (601)

Bob

23:29

@Overthinks You seem to have overlooked the distinct possibility of Zombie Piranha. The distinctly terrifying possibility of Zombie Piranha. — Sidney 2 days ago

@bwDraco because HP sucks?

bwDraco

Because the laptop and its battery is six years old.

It's a miracle that the battery lasted this long.

Journeyman Geek

@Bob that question is lulzy.

bwDraco

3 hours ago, by bwDraco

A mod will want to check this link out.

Dups, dups, more dups!

Journeyman Geek

@bwDraco just cause I'm conscious doesn't mean I'm free.

Also, without context, why should I bother?

The best use of my time is when I'm clearly told what needs my attention

bwDraco

23:49

Some of these questions, the community has not acted to close.

Maybe I should resort to Meta?

Journeyman Geek

actually that was odd

bwDraco

For whatever reason, my laptop battery is misreporting its capacity. It's claiming its full charge capacity is less than it is, then its current capacity jumps above its claimed full charge capacity while discharging.

Michael Frank

We had a flood on the floor above at work over the weekend. How is everyone else's day going?

Journeyman Geek

I got your profile page from mobile

Bob

@MichaelFrank a... flood?

Journeyman Geek

23:52

I get a blank page with

Could not find a user or deletion record for 73918 - either this user never existed, or was deleted before deletions were logged.

on PC

Michael Frank

@Bob Water pipe burst, causing major flood damage to the floor above, and it cascaded all the way down from L12 to L7.

Bob

Hm. By the end of this week I should have everything except the RAM in hand.

Too bad I can't just stick DDR3 in :\

Journeyman Geek

Still its entirely unclear what you're talking about

bwDraco

@JourneymanGeek That is bizarre. I thought mods could see a user's close votes?

Bob

@MichaelFrank Ow. Is that a demolish and rebuild?

Journeyman Geek

23:52

errr

not that way as far as I know

Michael Frank

@Bob Nah, it's an office building, so it's all concrete. It does mean we lost 16 monitors though. :(

Bob

Hm. Crap.

Do coolers usually come with thermal paste?

Journeyman Geek

I think so

I've not used an aftermarket cooler so far though

bwDraco

http://superuser.com/questions/236158/tmux-vs-screen
http://superuser.com/questions/1153394/flash-drive-is-not-getting-formatted
http://superuser.com/questions/1142673/capacity-of-8gb-flash-drive-shown-in-file-manager-is-less-than-the-actual
http://superuser.com/questions/1137311/remove-write-block-on-usb-flash-drive
http://superuser.com/questions/1163341/micro-sd-overlapped-to-locked-and-read-only-state-how-to-fix-it
http://superuser.com/questions/1094872/usb-flash-drive-is-write-protected
http://superuser.com/questions/1070542/how-to-fix-a-write-protected-ntfs-type-usb

Bob

@JourneymanGeek I wouldn't have bothered, but Skylake+ only comes with them :\

Journeyman Geek

23:56

ugh.

bwDraco

@JourneymanGeek Depends on the cooler. Some aftermarket coolers come with a small tube of paste from the same manufacturer (Noctua bundles NT-H1 with their high-end coolers), while others come with pre-applied paste. Not every cooler comes with paste, though.

Journeyman Geek

@bwDraco too early in the morning for this

Bob

s/only comes/doesn't come/

@bwDraco Ah. Mine will probably come with, then.

For some reason the shop is out of stock on both NT-H1 and AS5

But they had the NH-U14S, sooo... :P

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