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...when I could cheerfully destroy you.
A lappie (not mine) running windows 8.1 - it won't boot. Starts immediately loading windows and then blank screen with occasional flashes of a wait cursor.
Ok - Safe mode. Press F8. No, Safe Mode is selected when it's powered up. Fine.
Recovery disk. No, Bios is set not to boot from DVD. Fine.
Bios. No, Win8 uses hybrid boot mode and the only way into the bios is...once win8 is powered up. 
And my friend with a Win8 lappie has buggered off to play at living in a plastic box in a field for the weekend...
OK: I'll make a Win7 bootable USB...Oh, Win7 won't let me...
It's going to be a long day.
Wonder what happens if I try to boot without an HDD in the thing...hmmm...where's that hammer...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Try giving it the boot 
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It has Win8.1
If it was mine, it would have got the boot a while ago... 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Try booting from the recovery media that your "friend" was wise and foresighted enough to create while the lappie was working.
I'm already wearing my coat
Phil
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I would. If I could get into the bios to tell it to boot from it...but the HDD has a valid boot partition, so the UEFI is auto booting Win 8 rather than looking at the DVD drive.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Taking the HDD out got me into the BIOS. Yay!
Swap a few devices in the boot list...and off we go!
Or rather we would, but it doesn't recognise the DVD as bootable 
I'm getting a bad feeling here...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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There is a way to force the BIOS' attention; it seems it's something like holding down ctrl+F12 (or ctrl+F2?) during power-up.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Follow these steps -
1) Close lid of laptop
2) Keep it on table
3) Walk to door
4) Get your coat
5) Open door and step out
You will notice a whole new world and your laptop problems will be solved.
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OriginalGriff wrote: A lappie (not mine) running windows 8.1 - it won't boot.
It should have a recovery partition.
I had a job late Friday afternoon where a Windows 8.1 laptop was shitting itself over the BCD being corrupted or missing. Couldn't boot off any of my USB's, even the Windows 8.1 installation USB's. So eventually I Googled for the Recovery Partition function key (Asus?) and found that holding down F8 when turning it on bought me to Recovery.
I ran bootrec /rebuildbcd after renaming the exising C:\Boot\BCD only to find that it wouldn't recognise and load the existing Windows installation.
I eventually ran out of ideas and ran mountvol e: /s and copied the BCD from E:\Microsft\Boot to C:\Boot and then all was good.
Windows 8/8.1 sucks large donkey penises and Billy Boy and Stevey Knobgobbler really f***ed up here making it so hard to fix anything to do with 8.1. I hate it when anyone tries to book a job with 8.x no matter what it is.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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Michael Martin wrote: Windows 8/8.1 sucks large donkey penises and Billy Boy and Stevey Knobgobbler really f***ed up here making it so hard to fix anything to do with 8.1
Preaching to the Choir, my friend. Preaching to the MothaElephanting Choir...
Gawd, but I hope 10 is better... 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I have unilaterally hated everything they have done post XP.
Take the networking on Windows 7. What an utter f***ing disaster. An absoloute joke.
It is quicker to log into Hotmail than it is to see a share on a computer right beside it. That's IF it even gets that far. Usual it just says it cant.
Absoloute sh*t, 100% utter unusable crap.
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I dunno - I prefer 7 to XP, it doesn't give me any problems connecting to other devices at all.
And when I have to go back to XP (on Herself's computer) I do tend to swear at that for not doing what I want!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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If your bios lets you boot to USB, you can make a bootable USB with 'Rufus[^]'.
You will need a bootable DVD or a bootable ISO image of the Windows install for Rufus to make the bootable USB with.
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FearOf.net[^]
A list of ALL SOME known phobias. Quite cool.
There are some VERY weird ones out there...
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
modified 20-Jun-15 2:25am.
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I see. Not too ultimate, eh?
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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I am sure they did, considering the big list is a Top 100.
The website is clearly a front end marketing site for the book........ 
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No big deal:
I must not fear.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing.
Only I will remain.
Or in other words: Don't panic
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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CDP1802 wrote: Or in other words: Don't panic
Just make sure you know where your towel is.
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I do because I'm about to go under the shower.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Where is the Kwitzat Haderach when we need him?
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Ok, you got me. When I saw the link, I thought it was about people that fear .NET 
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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Mickeysoft's ideas are something we all should fear
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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What about these:
Code-o-phobia: Fear of code, especially large code bases (by a beginner).
Tester-o-phobia: Developer fearing about a tester finding his bug.
Developer-o-phobia: Tester fearing about getting beaten up by a developer, after finding a bug.
UML-o-phobia,
Design-pattern-o-phobia,
Legacy-o-phobia,
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