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Wasbit many thanks indeed, your response has been very useful.  Diolch yn fawr!  Dave

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I’m not overly familiar with the Attenborough matter, however I would ask is it really necessary for the BBC (our money) to have  3 highly paid commentators to pass comment on something the viewers have seen seconds previously. Lineker is amongst the most highly paid of the BBC team so I understand and having met him, I can confirm that he was a lovely person. I am not against free speech, far from it but when someone like Lineker makes these comments, irrespective of whether one agrees with them or not, his high profile position as a BBC commentator (though via his own company)  cannot be ignored and it is my opinion that for such people their freedom of speech has to be tempered with the employment status upon which their comments might reflect.  Unfortunately this is not the first time he has fallen foul of the BBC’s ‘impartiality’ policy.  The BBC has a very difficult time in trying to maintain a balanced approach and there is no doubt some ‘hidden’ pressure on it to be ever vigilant and to tow the line – fact of life!!  He who pays the piper calls the tune?

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Just sent a small donation to help.  Dave

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The ‘Independent Review Body’ is a joke, I remember years ago when I was in the police we were awarded x% by the IRB, the HMG cut it down by 50%+.  A few years later MPs had a ‘nice rise’ awarded by the IRB, a government spokesman when asked why MPs were given such an increase replied that as it had been awarded by the IRB it was sacrosanct.  Seems my wage increase wasn’t!!!!!!!!!!

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Can anyone please buy me a ‘dicshynary’ please – got yaer wrong!!

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A blonde wanted to try out ice fishing. She went out and purchased all the gear she would need and headed to a local spot to try to catch some fish.

She went out onto the ice with her gear and after getting comfy on the stool, she started to cut a circular hole in the ice as she had seen on the internet. As she was cutting, she heard a voice from the heavens speak out, saying, “THERE ARE NO FISH UNDER THE ICE.”

The blonde was startled. She stood up and looked around but saw no one. Cautiously, she moved a little further out onto the ice and set up in a different spot. She sipped some hot chocolate from her thermos and then started cutting another hole. Again, the voice called out, seemingly from all around her.”THERE ARE NO FISH UNDER THE ICE”

Now feeling quite scared and starting to get a bit frustrated, she moved all the way to the far end of the ice and laid out all her gear, sat upon her stool and started cutting another hole. Right away, the heavenly voice boomed out, this time louder than ever, “THERE ARE NO FISH UNDER THE ICE!”.

She jumped off her stool and looked all around her. She shouted to the heavens, “IS THAT YOU, LORD?”

The voice answered, “NO. THIS IS THE MANAGER OF THE ICE SKATING RINK. THERE ARE NO FISH UNDER THE ICE!”

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There is a GOD!!!!  After viewing DaveR’s ‘You Tube inst’ it still took me 3 attempts to enter the box but at least I’m IN!!

Thank you again one and all,  Dave

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Thanks to one and all who have helped me on this – HOWEVER when the PC arrived I was astounded to see how small it was – not that that matters.  I needed to insert the SSD in it so as per instructions I unscrewed the 4 base corner screws and waited or either the top or the bottom to part but NO.  Solid as a rock.  Asked Bee-link for advice they couldn’t help and asked for photos of the rear part of the case so they could find out!!  Hope to have it ready for delivery before the 3yr warranty runs out!!

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Well it arrived, I eventually went for the AMD Ryzen 5 5600U Proc, 16GB RAM, 500GB NMVe, W11 Pro +  3 yrs warranty + external DVDRW.

It arrived only then did I see exactly HOW SMALL it was – the footprint of the DVD is larger than the PC!!  My main concern now is the comment made by Ed P which is all Greek to me:

Once set up TPM+Secure Boot is invisible, but you must remember to make a Recovery Drive if you don’t then TPM/Secure Boot will gang up against you when things go pear-shaped.

With my luck things will go pear shaped sooner or later, probably sooner than later.  How do I deal with this? Does this pop up when I initially power on or what – like the old PC asking for you to make a b/up copy when first booted.

Thanks in advance yet again,  Dave

 

 

 

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Thanks Dave, these suggestions have really thrown the cat amongst the pigeons – mini, ATX or Midi!!  Ready built or DIY.  I like the Miniforum PCs as I do the Beelink ones.  Decisions, decisions!!

TBH I’m looking towards a mini one – irrespective of make at the mo – that will also give him W11 w/o and conflicts etc. etc.  I don’t really want (or need) another conflict like his original PC gave me!!  Life’s too short.  I will speak with him and see what he suggests.

Sorry for the delay in reply, away in Chesterfield yesterday 8/11.

Thanks one and all yet again.  Dave

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Thanks Ed, I have already sent him an email to suggest that Beelink might be the best way forward especially for their needs. I am away tomorrow and will have a chat with him on Thursday. You do seem to get a lots of bang for your buck with these and an extra 3 yrs warranty for less than £50 might be the way to save my sanity!!  And if his new SSD can be used in this then it seems to be a winner on both sides. Dave

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Hi Ed,

Thanks for the heads up on this one, I’ve had a look at what is on offer and especially your comments re W10 and the 2 years life let – so I do think that W11 will be the way to go – he has mentioned this. Beelink does look a very attractive proposition at the moment. Having been trawling through the various mobos/CPUs with / w/o graphics – the whole is a minefield, RAM etc.  I will have a chat with him and try to see if he will be happy with the Beelink ones – even more so if he can utilise his new SSD that would have held his OS on his new system. Just need to see what inputs his monitor has.  Many thanks,  Dave

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Thanks Ed,  can you please give me the link again please as I can’t seem to find it on the posts you have left here.  Diolch yn fawr,  (Thank you) Dave

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Hi – thanks for your replies – I don’t think he would want a refurbished unit from what I understand – but then as he has a W10 disk, SDD, keyboard, mouse, monitor – he would not want to double up on those. So it seems that new discrete items will be the order of the day – costs not really an issue with them.

Any discrete component suggestions would be gratefully received. Will need to check what inputs his  monitor can take though – HDMI / DP or DVI.

Thanks, Dave

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Thanks for the responses – what he needs is – a case with DVD RW access to front (I can get that), I already have a 960GB SSD in place of his dead HDD, and a genuine W10 disk so in reality it is:

Mobo (AMD or Intel – not fussy)  CPU, DDR4 RAM – I will go for 16GB with a 500w approx PSU – basically it will not be used for games etc. mainly office, photos and web type of work.

Any suggestions would be gratefully received. Budget – £~300 / 400 for the mobo, CPU, PSU and RAM would be OK. Really it’s a value for money and reasonable performance  as opposed to power that he will never really use.

Thanks,  Dave

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Thanks to you all for the inputs – the files are lost – I suspect that a localised version of the Bermuda triangle might have visited Anglesey and spirited them all away w/o any trace at all!!!!

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Well the SSD is still alive, it’s possibly killed the info on two HDDs!!!!

I’ve had a chat with him and he wants me to quote for a new system – in this case just a mobo, CPU and RAM – he may need a new case as the On/OFF switch (built into the case) I also suspect is playing up – currently by-passed by a similar switch directly to mobo!!

What ELSE can go wrong please – DON’T TELL ME I don’t want to know!!

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I should have added that the SSD was in place of the original failing WD ‘C’ drive

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Ok,  I will try to be more specific, the friend’s PC is running W10 and has a C drive only – a WD Black 1TB HDD date of production Aug 2017. For quite a while there has been the sleep/hibernation issues with it and recently it got to a head and he called me. The PC wouldn’t even boot up at his home so I bought it to mine. I was eventually able to boot up the PC, locate and download his files, and then to copy them to another WD Black 1TB HDD which I attached onto his PC as another drive (Storage only for the recovered files)  – not bootable.  When the copying had been done, I checked and all of the files were there or at least about 99.9% – some 145K files in total.

When I came  to re-installing them onto his PC, post our sleep/hibernation issues, using a docking station I copied the recovered files from my storage HDD to his SSD.  This took a matter of seconds which seemed very odd as I knew that the size of the contents was about 12GB. On checking both the SSD and the storage HDD – no files at all. (They WERE there when I checked the recovery a few days earlier).

I then Went back to check the original HDD ‘C’ drive and nothing there either – EVERYTHING seems to have vanished.  Recuva data rec s/ware finds some 4.1M files on the original C drive but a quick check does not show that they are anything that I need to recover.  Doing the same on my storage drive shown 0 files – as if they never ever existed at all on that drive.

Neither drive has been formatted not even inadvertently, but I expect that had one been accidentally formatted Recuva would have found something – NOTHING on either!!

Common factor both HDDs have been connected to my friend’s PC – the SSD seems to be working OK though there are no files on it at the moment save for those needed with W10 instal and updates. The ‘storage HDD has been connected to my W7 PC via a docking station with identical results.

I’ve accepted that the files are lost, but what intrigues me is HOW?  This is not my first job in trf’ing data from one HDD to another but is the first time this has happened to me.  Any help, guidance, pointers, ideas or anything would be most gladly accepted – I just can’t see what I have done wrong or incorrectly on this occasion.

I hope that this is a bit clearer.

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Hi Ed,  Thanks for all of your inputs. The PC is actually owned by a friend and has been having ‘hibernation / sleep’ problems with it for yonks – until it really got awkward and he phoned me.  When on the bench a short test with Data Lifeguard showed all OK but an Extended Test gave up the ghost after 45mts when it said ‘too many bad sectors ..’ I then tried to get the files needed off of it and was able to access said files and download to an identical 1TB WD Black HDD which I stored in a file named ‘Y Ni’ (Us) exactly as his original folder.  Having downloaded same onto the ‘storage’ HDD a check showed that they were there and about 99.9% had been recovered – so I felt great.

We then had the ‘hibernation / sleep’ problem which you helped me with,  so yesterday morning I thought whilst I looked at your solutions I would re-install the old data onto the new SSD – I did – the folder mover across and a few seconds later all was well and finished, bearing in mind the original folder had 145K files (about 12GB of data), their return had taken far too short a period.  Checking on the folder gave a ‘No Files – empty’ response.

I have used Recuva data recovery on the original failing HDD and the storage HDD – the failing returned 4.1million files and a cursory check does not indicate anything that I wanted to recover – the storage HDD indicates (on the face of it) that the files never existed on that HDD.  I KNOW that neither have been inadvertently formatted but even if they had, I would have expected that SOME files could have been retrieved.

It looks as if something / someone – a fairy – perhaps – has been there and simply cut out the sectors on both HDDs thus removing completely the data I need to recover (daft I know – sign of desperation???

I am completely and utterly flumoxed on this.

 

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