Recent content by atoddw

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    At my wits end. What is wrong with my laptop?

    I see no "drive tools" app option. Although there are I suppose options already present on the screen. I can Refresh Delete Format New Load driver Extend Though some of them are greyed out and I'm unable to click them. I've tried at least 4 of the drivers already and I'm getting an error for...
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    At my wits end. What is wrong with my laptop?

    @ironsounds I followed your steps all the way to 5. When I tried to delete a partition it gave me this error: "we couldn't delete the selected partition. [error: 0x8007045d]. Actually, there wasnt an options button to click on step 4, after clicking custom install the window showed up with the...
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    At my wits end. What is wrong with my laptop?

    If the machine is physically damaged, nothing that you can do with software will fix it. Sorry to be a downer, but stops working after being dropped sounds like physical damage to me. If you are lucky, something got knocked loose and needs to be reattached. I suspect that, at least, the hard...
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    At my wits end. What is wrong with my laptop?

    Last night my Asus x550z fell from about 2 feet and hit the tile on the top left corner of the front of the notebook. I was in Windows 10 and the YouTube page I was on became unresponsive after the drop though the volume settings in the bottom right worked, (after some seconds). So I reset the...