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lexin ([personal profile] lexin) wrote2015-09-09 10:45 pm

Dregs of installing Windows 10

Spent a good hour this evening sorting out my DVD drive which was the last thing that didn't work properly following my installation of Windows 10.

I don't know about you, but I'm always wary of touching the BIOS or the registry, and for this bit of wrongness I had to check both. I was getting an error message telling me that I had an error 19, some kind of issue with the driver. But there was no new driver to install.

Eventually I put the error message into google and turned up suggestions (1) that it was the BIOS, and how to get in (I got in, and it wasn't), or (2) it was a problem with the registry. I printed off all the instructions, which involved messing about with my printer, because the person who'd put in the printer ink cartridges (i.e. the seller) hadn't taken out the tag, meaning that I had to lever them out with scissors, and then I had to run regedit, find the relevant entry, edit the entry (scary stuff) and then reboot.

It worked. Go me.

So now I can rip DVD's again. Go me.

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