Col. Sandurz

I forgot, the OS is W10 (on the SSD) the disk was MBR

Christmas day a power outage damaged in some way my HDD (It's a Seagate Barracuda 7200.12). It was the boot HD of my PC, but the system was on an SSD. I put the damaged HD in a docking bay to try to access the data from a laptop. At first the directory structure came up, but while I was trying to access a folder it just sort of hang the PC. Now it seems that it's not recognized anymore (if I hook it to a PC the PC won't boot even if that is not the boot drive anymore, if I put it into the docking bay the PC connected is slowed down probably trying to ID it?). Looks like the drive is spinning. Is there something I can do that won't lower the chances of a professional being able to retreive the data?

I made a Win 10 install disk, booted into the commmand line and converted my disk to GPT (it was MBR). That solved the issue (to be fair there was a lot of tampering before and after, so that might also have contributed to the final outcome).

Thanks for the input. One more detail I forgot to mention. The error I reported on the topic title is what appeared on the first attempt to boot the system. After that the HDD does not appear anymore in the boot options of the Bios and the error becomes "NTLDR is Missing". Now I'd like to fix this first so I can then work on trying to recover the HDD later @Whayoubullingme Had a look to that guide but think it relies on utilities that move the SO for the MBR/NTLDR creation. I can't use one of those because I don't need to migrate an OS so I think I'm out of luck there. @DeltaGemini I think fTPM is only on AMD systems. I have to check if there is a similar option in mine that is an Intel one.

So that's my wonderful gift for christmas. This morning there was a power outage in my area and after that my PC won't boot anymore and this error is shown from Windows Boot Manager: file boot\BCD status 0xc00000e9 unexpected IO error My PC is configured as follows: i5 8400 Asrock B360 pro 4 5700XT 16 gb Ram PSU is a Corsair RM750X A mechanical HDD which has the boot partition and contains some data (used to be the OS disk) An NVMe.2 m.2 SSD which contains Windows 10 I extracted the HDD and I have trouble accessing it from another PC via an USB dock. I could read the file structure at first but not anymore apparently. So two things: What can I use to test the HDD when connected to my laptop? Should I attempt to do that? (at the moment I am only thinking of diagnosing, not repairing) What can I use to make the current SSD the bootable and system disk on my main PC? Merry Xmas everyone, hope yours is going much better than mine...

Yep, I did. Looks like the issue is that while my W10 installation is on C, the boot drive is D, where an old XP lies to be dual booted. Apparently just cloning C on a new drive and then boot with the new drive and D does not work (though I tried booting with only the new drive at the beginning, don't know if this could create problems but i don't think so).

Sooo... can it be used if you are migrating from a Samsung SSD drive to an Kingston M.2 drive? Because I failed with Acronis (PC does not boot because "NTLDR missing. Press CTRL+ALT+DEL to restart").

Hello everybody. I have not received 2004 yet, but I read that they brought back some functionalities about bluetooth. Does anybody know if it will be possible to use the PC as a hands free device for an android phone? (dial numbers, use the headset and microphone to make calls) that would be really helpful to me as my home office is in the basement and I have to keep the phone far from me to reliably use it.

Just to put a closure to it. My phone broke and I ended up with a Note 10 Lite. I spent a little more (450), I had to give up stock android, but I was always curious about the S-Pen. So far no luck with phone call recording but I still have hope. Camera's somewhat lackluster but has what I need.

Well, it's in Italian but... https://andreagaleazzi.com/recensione/recensione-xiaomi-mi-a3/ His gripe is that the low resolution added to the pentile matrix makes the low resolution really noticeable. That's really strange, I misunderstood you and thought it was the opposite. I'll have a look at it in a shop so I can get a feel for the interface. I am also sort of perplexed about the front facing camera, Looks fragile. Duly noted.

That's an interesting take. I guess I could wait but I'm suffering a little right now mainly because I have no more room in the phone and the camera has gone bad (dust infiltrations). I've heard the screen is not very good, regardless of the resolution, that may be a deal breaker for me. Well, I am not sure that's a huge limit for me, I am mainly interested in photos anyway. Pro: Excellent battery life (at his heyday) Snappy enough Mostly stock Android Big screen of decent quality Allows for two way call recording without any tampering It was nice that it was waterproof (until it lasted). Cons: Not enough internal memory (16 GB) Loses GPS signal during a call I've had some reliability issues on the hardware side (had to change the screen, under warranty, usb covers are prone to break, camera is now almost unusable due to dust) and on the software side (I was forced to format the thing a couple of times due to battery drain and the such). Still a little of bloatware A little slow at re-catching the cellular signal after losing it. Very hard to root (even If i really didn't have a lot of reasons to do that) Backup was not really reliable I think the GPS thing is an interaction of many things, but the phone plays its role, if what I read around is to be believed. The Samsungs are a little to far from stock Android for my tastes, I don't know the Honor Play line, I'll check it thanks.

Hello everybody! Looks like my beloved Xperia Z3 starts to be slightly outdated and I am looking for something to replace it, possibly at around 400 euros. I'll buy it in Italy so anything available in Europe should do the trick. What I'd like: As stock as possible GPS should not stop working during calls (That's a big gripe with my actual phone) Able to record both side of the conversation with ACR or similar apps (Or, if that's not possible anymore, it would be nice if there was an easy-ish mod path to do that, like easy rooting or whatever) Wide angle camera, decent indoor shots. Decent battery life. I'm not particularly concerned about size

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Hello LTT forum! Recently I bought a Bluetooth dongle for my Windows 10 PC hoping that it could be used as a hands free device for my phone. I had the hazy memory of it being possible. And I was right! At least I was right until like windows 8. With windows 10 this feature has been removed. Is there any good third party app or workaround for this? The only one I found is called Bluesoleil, it is a paid solution. That's not a dealbreaker for me, but the fact that I cannot download a trial version and test it before buying is. Is there anything else out there or another solution to the problem? Thanks everybody

Thanks guys, Both the Realme X and the Reno Z are a tad bigger than I'd like (I am talking about actual dimensions rather than just the screen size) the pixel 3a looks promising but it's a little more expensive than I anticipated (399 euros). However I am waiting to see what the Mi A3 brings to the table (it launches tomorrow here) and maybe will still take the pixel 3a.