This is right, the GRUB puzzle seems to be [SOLVED]. I wondered about the updating thing, but the desktopicons and the taskbar were still not loaded over night. I tried the ctrl+alt+del to get to the task manager and it never loads either.fehlix wrote: Fri Feb 09, 2024 12:51 pmGood, so the GRUB part of this puzzle is now [SOLVED], right?smilliken wrote: Fri Feb 09, 2024 12:31 pm Thanks for the help @fehlix, the GRUB menu is fix and the the computer will boot into Windows, sort of. I'm able to enter the PIN and the desktop shows up, less the icons and there is something happening in the back ground as there is an blue circular icon spinng nonstop.
I'll have to do some diggin on this end, but thanks again for your assistance.
The other issue might be Windows after such a long time of absence from the net
might now try to upgrade itself which may take some time, or even revert back the last upgrade attempt, which may takes even longer some time.
Tried to boot with the Windows install USB drive do some trouble shooting, but it doen't have anything to repair. Can't re-install windows and keeping all of hte user files due tot he MBR vs GPT. The drive is a MBR and the installation wants a GPT drive for the EFI set up. I was thinking of doing a clean install of Windows 10 and then copying back the user data. Then at least the drive will be in the correct format. Backing things up right now.