On Mon, 1 Jun 2020 at 23:08, Tim via users
wrote:
> On Mon, 2020-06-01 at 15:55 -0600, Joe Zeff wrote:
> > If the CMOS battery is going bad, there will be a lot more problems
> > than just losing the settings of one drive! If none of the other
> > settings are giving trouble, it's not the batter
On Mon, 2020-06-01 at 15:55 -0600, Joe Zeff wrote:
> If the CMOS battery is going bad, there will be a lot more problems
> than just losing the settings of one drive! If none of the other
> settings are giving trouble, it's not the battery.
I do wonder about that. How many BIOS settings are igno
On 06/01/2020 03:21 PM, George N. White III wrote:
Best case is that the BIOS settings (which are maintained in CMOS by a
replaceable battery) were lost due to failure of the battery (there are
lots of youtube videos for Lenovo CMOS battery replacement).
If the CMOS battery is going bad, there
On Mon, 1 Jun 2020 at 12:58, Neal Becker wrote:
> Thanks for all the suggestions. Just to review, the issue was the drive
> didn't even appear in lsblk, so nothing can be done to fix it.
>
until you find a way to make it visible to linux.The ATA1 you mentioned
is a hint that the BIOS may ha
Thanks for all the suggestions. Just to review, the issue was the drive
didn't even appear in lsblk, so nothing can be done to fix it.
It is possible it was partially failing, it seems after multiple windows
reboots and repairs it is working again, although
at least one app had to be reinstalled.
On Sat, 30 May 2020 at 10:37, Neal Becker wrote:
> Today my wife's windows10 lenovo laptop was not starting normally, cycling
> through various "repair" screens. It does seem to work at least
> minimally though.
>
I've seen this with older version of Windows. The "repair" may have
repaired the
On 5/30/20 1:19 PM, ITwrx wrote:
> On 5/30/20 8:36 AM, Neal Becker wrote:
>> Today my wife's windows10 lenovo laptop was not starting normally, cycling
>> through various "repair" screens. It does seem to work at least
>> minimally though.
>>
>> I tried booting of my f32 usb stick and thought may
On 5/30/20 8:36 AM, Neal Becker wrote:
> Today my wife's windows10 lenovo laptop was not starting normally, cycling
> through various "repair" screens. It does seem to work at least
> minimally though.
>
> I tried booting of my f32 usb stick and thought maybe I could take a look at
> the SSD. B
Today my wife's windows10 lenovo laptop was not starting normally, cycling
through various "repair" screens. It does seem to work at least
minimally though.
I tried booting of my f32 usb stick and thought maybe I could take a look at
the SSD. But when I start gnome disks, the internal SSD does
