Microsoft has spent a lot of time (and money) trying to make Windows self-repairing, partly because it generally gets the blame when other programs – or users – try to “improve” it.
Said machine then bricked: boot begins, then the screen blanks.Īre there any steps that I can take to recover access to the machine? Failing that, can I recover my files from the hard drive, installed in a USB cradle? John When it restarted, it reported a missing component. I recently ran a free trial of a PC tune-up utility, including a disk clean-up routine, on my Windows 10 laptop.