Category: Computers

  • Fedora 20 64-bit UEFI boot USB Key

    I am using my HP Envy 4-1115dx with a USB Key running a Live ISO of Fedora 20 64-bit booted with UEFI. It’s working  pretty well. Feels good, I  can use my touchpad and touchscreen is working to a degree. The touchpad is really touchy though. I do have the turn off while typing and…

  • UEFI Windows 8.1 Pro

    I don’t know if I had UEFI and partitioned Win 8 installed exactly right (as it should have been) but I know I did use UEFI, absolutely … and when I upgraded to Win 8.1, I don’t know if that caused a problem or what or when, but one day, earlier this year, I turned…

  • Dual-Booting and Data Reclaiming

    I have a Seagate GoFlex Desktop 3TB drive, I wrote a post about it previously to this one. I was able to get a live Ubuntu DVD going which proved via Testdisk that I did have harvest-able data on it. That just wouldn’t work on my big Desktop computer though. I finally just bit the…

  • Data, data, no where to put it

    I had problems with my main computer the other day, it was acting weird, not a virus. So I also found at that point that my Seagate GoFlex 3TB Desktop drive was malfunctioning. I made a new profile in Windows 8.1 and everything was fine, except for that Seagate drive. It’s a real downer because…

  • HTC Evo View Running JB

    I had an HTC Evo View 4G from Sprint. I still ‘have’ it, but it’s been off contract for awhile now, and wasn’t “mine” to use. I got a Nexus 10, and my husband used the View for awhile, but was letting it sit around the last many months. Long ago,  when I was still…