Hi, few days ago I turned off my laptop by holding power button. Daft I know.
It created a problem where the laptop would then get stuck in a restart boot cycle saying it had run into a problem.
I tried repair disk, playing with boot settings with my limited knowledge and got nowhere.
So I took it to a repair shop and they said they would have to wipe it and re install a new copy of windows 8 for £50. They did this but then gave it me back and I was getting a message in the action centre asking for windows to be activated. So I took it back and they seemingly sorted that.
But it now is generally slow at everything. It used to be really fast at starting up and opening programs. It now boots in LEGACY mode. It used to boot in UEFI. That is the only difference, with my limited knowledge I can see. For example it used to start up in less than 10 seconds and be good to go. Now it takes around 25+.
I just tried to change it back to UEFI and the screen is blank and just says, 'Searching for media(Failed)'
The laptop in a Dell Inspirion 15rse with Win8. I7, 8 ram blah.
Felling pretty angry at the min, but need to know it's justified before I go back to the shop.
Thanks for any help.
It created a problem where the laptop would then get stuck in a restart boot cycle saying it had run into a problem.
I tried repair disk, playing with boot settings with my limited knowledge and got nowhere.
So I took it to a repair shop and they said they would have to wipe it and re install a new copy of windows 8 for £50. They did this but then gave it me back and I was getting a message in the action centre asking for windows to be activated. So I took it back and they seemingly sorted that.
But it now is generally slow at everything. It used to be really fast at starting up and opening programs. It now boots in LEGACY mode. It used to boot in UEFI. That is the only difference, with my limited knowledge I can see. For example it used to start up in less than 10 seconds and be good to go. Now it takes around 25+.
I just tried to change it back to UEFI and the screen is blank and just says, 'Searching for media(Failed)'
The laptop in a Dell Inspirion 15rse with Win8. I7, 8 ram blah.
Felling pretty angry at the min, but need to know it's justified before I go back to the shop.
Thanks for any help.