Arrhenius Troubleshooter

Hmm, I forgot what I used; it was a software downloaded from internet, that was referenced in a tutorial about cloning drives. I think it was Macrium maybe? Anyway I did copy only the boot partition and the main windows partition probably; because on the current drive I just see those 2 partitions (and the 120 mb partition…

Indeed it is a great thing to have a contextual menu to fix permissions. I am so used to linux that I rarely have to deal with such things in Windows :)

I just changed permissions by hand; by going in the folder properties and change the ownership.Took a while going from folder to folder, since the attributes were not applied recursively (even if you use the -r); but ended up fixing the issue for the time being. In the worst case, just wipe the drive clean; I am about to…

Thanks for the reply!Sadly I do not have the recovery partition; the computer came with 2x128 GB M2 drives in RAID; and the first thing I did was to get a larger drive, so I replaced few weeks after the purchase, both drives with 2x 1TB M2 drives (sadly only one slot is nvme). When I cloned the drive from the original…

There is no such thing as overclock on CPUs, unless they are the K variant and the motherboard supports it. Same for the desktop; the issue with many laptops is that they are as big as a desktop machine but do not allow you to change CPU. My next gaming laptop won't be any brand that does not use desktop grade CPU or that…

Follow up question: if I clone the raid0 drives, and then restore on a single M2 drive and swap the drives, will the computer boot up or do I need to break the raid first and then swap the drives? I am asking because if I can't get the new drive to work; I can always return to the original configuration and try again, but…

Are you getting 1080 performances though? I heard that the external adapters for Thunderbolt, do take a toll on performances, up to 40%. It may be faster than the stock card in the laptop, but it may not be as fast as the same card was connected on the PCI-e 16X on a regular motherboard. If the difference is not…

Thanks again :) One question, since I never used anything but ancient Norton to make images: since the drive size are different; do I just image letting macrium copy all the partitions as they are? I assume it will expand the partition on the bigger drive; or do I have to do it manually, kinda like with Linux when you…

Thanks a lot for the info! BTW I just realized that the 2 slots are not both NVMe; so buying 2 expensive ones was not really the good way to go :) I did settle for a Crucial P1 3D CT1000P1SSD8 model, which seems to have good reviews. The other alternative is a Samsung Evo 970, which seems to have the same specs but cost…

Hi, thanks for the reply. Intel utility show me the same as in the picture you posted, so I have 2x128 in raid0. I was not aware of the complication about the raid, when replacing the drive. This means that I am forced to use raid0? The plan was to use 2 different drives, since I can afford to buy one drive at time (in…

Thanks; where do I find this restore image? I don't see it available on the acer site.I am in USA; so I was expecting to see the download link somewhere. I did try to make boot USB drivers from Windows 8 and 10 and neither seems to work. Almost tempted to give up, but the tablet is working, so I don't see why should I…

I think this is the one that I tried. MS site has a tool that you download and allow you to create a bootable USB drive, so you can install Windows again. For some reasons, the installation stall after rebooting the first time; tried every trick in the book, and nothing did work; which make me think that the device is…

Yes, there are 32 bit distros; but the bootloader check the EFI, and expect a 32 bit EFI; while the Atom CPU like the one in the W4, use a 64 bit EFI; from what I can read online. This is the same issue but inverted, of the first batch of Mac Pro; where the CPU was a 64 bit capable but the EFI was set at 32 bit, so you…

It does not seem to be the case; I did search on the store and there is no sign of recovery disk. To me it is infuriating that you can't get a downloadable ISO of the recovery disks; especially considering that you can download Windows directly from Microsoft for free. Then they wonder why users prefer to buy brands that…

Thanks; there is indeed a second M2 slot, but by factory they made it as Raid; so you get 2 smaller drives in it, unless you ask for an upgrade (which I didn't because they charge you an arm and a leg for a single bigger M2 usually; compared to buy it on your own later on). That would be a way; but a 2 TB spinning SATA…

Let's go by logic; if I did find a post like you say, that was here and that was referring to this specific model, and that was giving an answer, would I waste my time posting here? There are other posts about use the external caddy, true; but the issue here is "does it work with this specific model?" I had no way to find…

It doesn't seem to boot from the linux distro at all; I suspect the issue is the mix of 32 bit CPU and 64 bit EFI; since it is a bay trail device. At this point I am stuck; can't put back windows, can't put linux, and I doubt that I can find a working version of android, since it is a X86 and not an ARM CPU... it cost less…

I can try to put a live distro on a USB key and see what happen; although the live distro would run from the USB stick; so I have to put the whole OS on the local disk to check if the disk is the issue. Good suggestion. I did not record the license; I should have somewhere the key that came with the system, with all the…

Thanks a lot! I did check those on Ebay but there was no way to figure out if the connector is the same of the drive in the G9-793 or not. Giving it a try, they are pretty cheap so in the worst case it is just a waste of 10 bucks or so.