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Ok, will need to be a tad bit more specific. There are AFAIK two distinct Hall's Laws: http://www.murphys-laws.com/murphy/murphy-laws.html that seemingly BOTH apply in this case. Assume that a non-destructive repair isn't, so treat it exactly like you would treat a destructive one. Simply image your system "as is" by making a full disk image or a clone, then attempt the "presumably non-destructive" repair, if after all it turns out to be destructive, all you have to do is to re-image back to current state. In theory you reinstall/repair the windows 7 (and the Windows 7 should boot and temporarily lose the Windows 10 booting) and then reinstall/repair the Windows 10. This is of course greatly risky as if the Windows 10 reinstall/repair fails you likely lose BOTH the Windows 7 and the windows 10 booting Besides making the full disk image (that is however STRONGLY suggested, I would define it a VITAL pre-requirement) most probably you can make also an image/clone of the "special" boot partition only, as restoring just that should be enough to bring you back to the current working dual boot situation even if the "plain" repair fails. Anyway, you will need to provide a lot more information if you want/need more specific guidance, like the exact way the disk is partitioned, which drive letters are currently used, whether you use (I presume BIOS) BIOS or UEFI booting and if you currently can boot successfully (even if possibly with some minor issue once booted) both the Windows 7 and the Windows 10. jaclaz

And don't forget that usually "Ed Bott's good advice" is considered as well an oxymoron... jaclaz

Any more detail? Maybe it can be found among the ones here: https://archive.org/details/msdncds? jaclaz

I have now found the perfect practical example of what is happening. NT is a plastered wall. Windows 2000 is first layer of (white, plain) paint applied to it. Windows XP is a (fancy) second layer of paint. Vista is a (shocking pink ) third layer. 7 is a return to more agreeable (pastel) colours, but is indeed a fourth layer. 8/8.1 are the fifth layer (coming from a decorator under LSD effects ). 10 is the sixth layer, just like it happens on real wall, the paint starts to peel off here and there, and if you want to have something acceptable, you need to scrape off until you get to the plaster before reapplying a new paint. jaclaz

BUT quite a few people deserve it (and they as well deserve windows 8/8.1/10)... jaclaz

I am getting old , this seems WhatsApp or Twitter to me. jaclaz

... meanwhile in Redmond ... http://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/01/19/windows_10_bug_undercuts_ipv6_rollout/ The actual blog post: https://blog.apnic.net/2017/01/19/ipv6-only-at-microsoft/ jaclaz

And - just for the record - another suitable tool is Registrar Lite, in an old version that you can get from here: http://web.archive.org/web/20040803094650/http://www.resplendence.com/download Which has very nice search and replace features, still COA2 remains the "best suited" tool. jaclaz

And - back to the future past - a new initiative : https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/01/human-knowledge-salt-mine/512552/?single_page=true jaclaz

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Maybe it is an issue with "false pairs", but being questioned or interrogated here means something different, particularly if done by a secret service or a defence agency. Someone (supposedly retainers of extremely secret or private data and possibly connected to the French secret services) asked you an opinion or suggestion on how to securely erase some disk drives. For some reason they were afraid that data could be recovered AND didn't want to make use of any of the (documented) international, if not standards, "recommendations" such as the DoD one they could ask NOT anyone among their IT security experts AND THEN they asked this question to you, unofficially, since you don't have any particularly related qualification, education or experience. Now I see. Just for the record, even set aside perpendicular recording in 2006 the NIST already published a document about the proved effectiveness of a single pass on anything manufactured after around 2001 or 15 Gb in size: http://web.archive.org/web/20120901055431/http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/nistpubs/800-88/NISTSP800-88_with-errata.pdf of course it is entirely possible that that was a clever move by the US intelligence to trick all the world (including their own agencies) to adopt excessively lax standards in order to be able to retrieve information not fully overwritten and thus recoverable (by them). jaclaz

... menawhile in Germany ... http://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/01/17/microsoft_germany_says_windows_7_already_unfit_for_business_users/ jaclaz

Well, the only good thing about being old (at least before being visited by that old German gentleman Al *something*) is that of remembering old tools. http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,21065,00.asp http://web.archive.org/web/20120418153743/http://htmole.altervista.org/info/coa2.htm it works nicely in XP too. (and with a couple tricks also in Vista): jaclaz

Sure, but lucky guessing has its own merits you shouldn't be so negative about it. jaclaz

You do understand how this is exactly he opposite of "troubleshooting", right? You should disconnect each and every USB device, then run USB deview and remove each and every of them you see there. Then try again with just one, single device attached. (the keyboard, for whatever reasons right now you have three instances of it. that may be part of the issue) And do try with a "normal" keyboard! jackaz

Then, JFYI: http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/money/industries/technology/2004-11-29-honeypot_x.htm http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/08/19/infected_in20_minutes/ The Sans paper you can get via Wayback Machine: http://web.archive.org/web/20050117145027/http://isc.sans.org/presentations/xpsurvivalguide.pdf jaclaz

Well, it is possible, you get a router from ISP, with *standard* Admin/Admin (or similar password). In theory you should connect it ONLY to a PC (NOT to the DSL line) and configure it, including changing the access password). In practice most people (sometimes even the instructions from the ISP say so) will connect it to both network and DSL, leaving the standard password and start fiddling with it (and besides very often ISP issued routers will have remote connection enabled by default). If the device is "scanned" by some bot, it may well become infected in no time (do you remember the infamous "unpatched XP" before SP2 issues?). I wouldn't be surprised if an ISP put up some "external defense". But not everythng that comes from outside is bad, there has been also a "benevolent" router patching virus around, fiwatch/ifwatch JFYI: https://lootmyself.wordpress.com/2014/11/09/ifwatch-malware-part-1/ http://www.securityweek.com/developers-mysterious-wifatch-malware-come-forward https://gitlab.com/rav7teif/linux.wifatch jaclaz

Good, so you can experiment with the suggestions in the given link (that one is related to WinPE 3.x, aka Windows 7 based, later PE's may behave differently). jaclaz

This is what usually is called "looking for trouble". You mean when you run diskpart in the PE? jaclaz

Coincidentally, right now there are two rather serious scandals over here in Italy, one which is making the headlines about a couple of people snooping on members of the parliament/VIPs emails and other electronic contacts, and one with a much lower impact, but actually IMHO much more serious, about the Justice department "discovering" that (lawful) interceptions that were technically implemented (recorded and stored) by (authorized) private contractors were accessible remotely - besides by the Court/Prosecution Offices - by the contractors themselves (and that some of these contractors may have actually peeked in them ). Of course we have an Italian saying for that, "segreto di Pulcinella": http://www.wordreference.com/iten/segreto di Pulcinella anyone with more than 2 neurons AND a very-very basic IT background would have suspected that, just like your security monitoring company example. jaclaz

Don't forget Hanlon's Razor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon's_razor jaclaz

@Dibya Which part of "this memory dump doesn't show up in BlueScreenViewer" is difficult? jaclaz

Now some (interesting ) news on the Windows 10 Privacy front: https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2017/01/10/continuing-commitment-privacy-windows-10/ I won't make any comment if not to highlight the Author's name: Terry Myerson (and I have said enough). jaclaz

In alternate realities everything is possible ... You wouldn't really expect Gordon Kelly or any web journalist (or any journalist for that matter) to double check or verify anything they post or write, would you? The source is here, however: https://mspoweruser.com/project-neon-windows-10-first-look/ which very likely gets the source from: http://www.windowscentral.com/new-design-language-windows-10-project-neon that actually gets info from here: http://www.numerama.com/tech/212129-en-2017-microsoft-va-retravailler-toute-la-charte-graphique-de-windows.html and back to the circular: http://www.numerama.com/tech/222885-project-neon-des-premieres-images-pour-la-nouvelle-interface-de-windows-10.html to: https://mspoweruser.com/project-neon-windows-10-first-look/ This stuff is not entirely unlike (please read as exactly like) gossip papers, some info is true, most is not, and around them everything (and the contrary of it) can be (and actually is) written ... jaclaz

Just saying ... https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/38707/ An "overview" by manufacturer: http://www.cvedetails.com/vendor/899/D-link.html jaclaz