Recent content by NatS1011

Ooo, army of good suggestions, let me start trying these. Thanks all, I'll get back when I have given them a proper go.

Iooking into the "IntelTACD service" it doesn't seem to have anything to do with bluetooth, I get: I just updated my BIOS directly from Dell less than a week ago, and I am getting the "IntelTACD service" errors since, so that can't be I BIOS problem, I am not seeing a togle for it under...

Thanks. Okay I am in Computer Management > Event Viewer > Windows Logs And in there, there is "System" I assume that hosts the errors for "SystemSettings.exe" ? Assuming that is right, looking through it I see a few errors that say it is having trouble starting the "IntelTACD service"...

Currently the "Add Device" button on bluetooth in settings doesn't seem to actually do anything. Clicking on it causes it to do that brief depression animation and then it pops right back up and there is no sign of anything ever happening. All the bluetooth services appear to be running: see...

Haven't had any problems yet, so I am going to assume it is solved (thanks!) I'll post again in the thread if that changes.

@hsehestedt Okay, turned off fast startup. Display was Dell driver, so I am going to leave it. I also updated the BIOS though it was basically up to date. I haven't had any problems yet, but now I need to wait to see if it randomly occurs (or doesn't) and I have no idea how long that will...

I just finished fully updating windows 11 after reinstalling it a little while ago on this Dell Inspiron 7440 14 2-in-1 (something I have now had to do on this computer 3 times in 2025 already after it became unusable on other versions of windows 11.) After the latest Windows 11 update, if it...

@Scannerman Thank you. I'll take a look at that eventually. For now I just moved everything I need for the intimidate future across from the external HDs to the Windows box on a thumb drive via the Linux box.

@OldNavy Yes, but the ports should be fine as the drives do show up in device manager, both under drives and on the appropriate USB bus tabs, and also show up in disk management programs. So every thing hardware related and software-hardware driver and other interface is detecting stuff in...

@jumanji Thanks, this sounds useful. I'll give it a try when I get time, but now I am in a super rush because I spent so many hours fumbling around with drives yesterday, and then just moved across everything I immediately needed via thumb drive ferrying it from the linux box where the drives...

@Scannerman The data is what I want. The physical drives are meaningless to me, the only thing I want is access to that data, accumulated over a decade, on my windows 11 machine. I'll just buy a new drive if I want a new blank windows 11 drive. Any response that is not about recovering that...

I don't think you understand Steve / XxXxX -- I have no access issues on linux, all the issues are on Windows 11. I am trying to get these things working on Windows 11 and thought they might be dead until I plugged them into a linux box, and they are all fine. The issue isn't anything on...

But those two non-functional ones weren't linux drives, one was windows other was OS X (.... though I guess that is a flavor of linux) There is only one drive I can't access anywhere, "drive 1" though linux sees that there is stuff there but it can't get at it (that was not a linux formatted...

Just checked drives 3 and 4 on Linux mint, both of those drives work fine and all the data is there, windows 11 just doesn't like them for unknown reasons, which is very frustrating as these are the drives I want the most. It would be really nice if I could get these working on windows. I...

Drive 3: Right clicking on the only partition, "Healthy (Primary Partition)" only has two options: 1. Delete Volume... or 2. help ...there is no option to add a drive letter. Drive 4: Right clicking on the "Healthy (Primary Partition)" among the options only has two options: 1. Delete...