On 03/03/2020 19:34, Harry Bloomfield wrote:
John Rumm formulated the question :
It will have a recovery partition. So you can recover to the supplied
image (which is unlikely to be Win 10).

I have managed to run the recovery utility and its faster initially then
gradually comes to a complete stop. It has a few unnecessary things on
it, which are grabbing memory and CPU, but I have been unable to stop or
delete them so far.
before you go mad, use the SMART disk utilities (HDtune) to see if the
disk is, in fact, failing.



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