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Oh and you don’t have to create an account if you don’t wan’t, just chose Intel or AMD to start.

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https://www.palicomp.co.uk/custom-pcs

Check out the Palicomp system configurator above. You can pick the bits you would like in a new PC and leave out the bits you have, it will give you a price as you go along.

Go nuts if you like, you don’t have to order 😁

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The problem you may have john is that, just like Dell, HP has a habit of fitting non standard components. Before thinking of a MoBo swap you should check that it is one of the standard sizes and then you should check that the power connector is wired in the standard way, if not you will also need a new PSU and you should check if that is of a size you can get.

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A £6bn discount ? Bargain then. I’ll take two 😂😂😂

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+1 But if you must… 😁

Your Q77 Express MoBo can go as high as an i7 3770k but I can’t find any details about HP BIOS support. They are £290 new or about £170 on ebay.

If you are a gamer then a graphics card could work wonders but I wouldn’t go to mad with your 320W PSU. An NVIDIA 1060 GTX at about £230 should do the trick.

Buy them after you get an SSD and you really will be maxed out 😀

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You spotted that then Dave. The £39bn cost is one of the things I like least about the deal. Much less money for sunny uplands. Ho hum.

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Many many people said that Boris was not really going for an EU deal, it was all just a ploy, but here it is anyway.

The deal does not get all the things I want but that is the nature of a deal, with the back stop trap removed it does just enough to get my vote.

Now we will see if the Remoaners are actually interested in a deal.

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https://askubuntu.com/questions/746323/using-gparted-to-completely-clear-a-drive/746373

There is info in the above link on how to get a disk partitioned into just one large empty partition that you can then format as you like. There are methods for GParted an built in Linux tools.

You never know, it may help 😂

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I seem to have crossed posts with you too Dave 😁

Im not sure that the first partition that is appearing on the disk IS nothing to worry about. There must be something in sector 0 for that to appear and it may not be correct.

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I seem to have crossed posts with you there less.

I am not a real expert with GParted so I will have to let someone else answer, sorry. You did say there was still a partition on the disk before the new one you created though. I wonder if GParted has a Clear Disk command like Windows Disk management does ?

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And just for completeness, there is also a file system type of RAW that lets an app manage its partitions without using any Windows supported file system.

Windows will never attempt to auto mount a partition that has its file system type set to RAW but an app can mount it with the RAW driver and perform any sort of sector level I/O it likes on any sector.

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Out of interest, if Windows detects an unpartitioned drive then it will mount it with the RAW file system driver. The RAW driver will let you, or more likely an app, read any individual sector on a disk but it will only allow writing to sector 0 so partitioning information can be established.

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If the drive was wiped under Windows and then the Clear drive command in Disk Management was used then it will not be partitioned. As mentioned above GParted should sort you out 😁

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Thats not actually totally new JCD. For quite a while now the Media Creation Tool has had an option to create installation media or to just reinstall Windows from the latest online immage, odd ah ?

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The whole history of Atari personal computers is a bit of a sad one, full of missed opretunities and later on revenge. The original Atari company was not at all sure it should be making computers ( its parent company, Warner, was much more interested in software publishin) and then the new owner (ex Commodore boss jack Trammel) was mostly interested in getting a more buisness oriented machine out the door as quickly and cheaply as possible to punish Commodore for sacking him ( he had already knocked Texas Instruments out of he home computer market with the C64 after they had knocked him out of the calculator market by raising the price of their chips)

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They still have not learned in the UK car industry. I took my high end Vauxhall vectra for its first service  at a main dealer. They drained the oil and replaced the filter but did not put any new oil in it !

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Yep, if you go to settings and then apps you will find a move to SD card setting for apps that support it, some don’t.

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And that will be found by the SMBIOS I already have a bee in my bonnet about 😁

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Seems to be the mobo serial number that does the trick

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Not surprised Mark. MS will have the hardware registered, like it or not

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