Recent content by martinsk

In the end, I had to go the cloning route. I could not get Laptop 1 to recognize any of my flash drives and interestingly, my DVDs of 4,3 GB were too small for the Windows 10 ISO image which turned out to be 4,5 GB (I thought it was said to be smaller on the MS website). Oddly enough, the USB...

Thank you for your reply AlHuneke, much appreciated. So after a bit more fiddling, I now have some follow-up to share. It turns out that USB drive on Laptop 1 recognized my external HDD - so I fortunately could back up the data without doing additional steps and additional headache. However...

Thank you for your suggestion. I will try to figure out how to make it work, looks as if it might be even simpler than my approach. The dead USB drives on Laptop 1 (which only has a working DVD drive now) and the lack of a DVD on Laptop 2 (which has working USB) have really let me down here...

Maybe the machine needs some codecs to play DVDs. Try googling K-Lite codec pack, install the codec pack and see if it resolves your problems. I have had it on multiple computers and it has never let me down. If this does not help, then the problem lies elsewhere.

Please bear with me, this will be quite lengthy. I have a 3 (maybe even 4?) year old Asus F54U1 laptop. Pentium i7, 8GB RAM. It gradually slowed down (significantly). I eliminated bloatware and bloat processes. This brought some improvement in terms of boot time but it still gets slow and the...