Computer with W8.1 out

[thelufias]

That's awesome Aelin...Lesson of the day......persistence pays off in the end

[Aelin]

Thanks guys!
HP dragon, that sounds good lol

[rrkknight3]

This is great news, Aelin.  Glad to hear that your tilt with the HP dragon was successful.   :winks:

[mtdana]

That is great new!  I hope it means you are back to rendering soon!!!

[Chiron]

I really wish you the best Luck, Aelin, although I already told you what I think of a disk that betrayed you once...

But you know that, thus I'm sure you'll backup your most important files as often as possible - it's like an insurance: you keep paying (in this case with your valuable time) and hope you'll never need to cash. But in case something goes wrong you're much better off :smile:

[Aelin]

End of morning until a part of afternoon and 1 word: ISO  :crazysmile:
W8.1 is alive, even if I was forced to "bidouiller" it (I don't like the "hack" term).

I needed to formate partitions, and yes I know, to lose everything that HP put onto. Only partition I kept was Recovery (even if it looks like damaged, like it refused to do the job) because it contains the Windows OEM.
I had warnings:
- because partitions aren't in the good order
- because for an unknow reason the 'new' format of partition is different than necessary for Windows (GPT in place of M.. something).

But it works! 
Maybe it's the last threat to open it by a not sweet manner which decided it But I can say it's good to be "at home" now.

I have started to look to bring to date pilotes, but it looks like Windows made a part of job with the reinstallation.

But I have a little trick with "Windows defender". It refuses to leave me enter in options on the configuration pannel. I guess the fight will continue on another level.

guys! Now I cross fingers that W8.1 accepts to play regularly, as longer as the hard disk will accept to work.

[thelufias]

 :yeow:

[Aelin]

If I put it in microwave, I lose also the fridge    

[Chiron]

Flying against a wall or end under a hammer are 2 solutions I keep in last resort
But if I want a little chance in more to do renders, I must continue. One day.

Gather all your courage, get a screwdriver, extract the hard disk and throw that against the wall (or put it in the microwave, or however make it suffer :winks: ).
The rest of the laptop is innocent, spare its life! :pleeeeez:

[Aelin]

Flying against a wall or end under a hammer are 2 solutions I keep in last resort
But if I want a little chance in more to do renders, I must continue. One day.