Windows 10: Why does my Gateway laptop think I'm in Washington D.C?

Ever since I got my Gateway laptop in 2021 It thinks I'm in Washington D.C when I live In Michigan. I tried to restart it, manually change it, allow my location. It gives me all the latest news about what is happening in Washington D.C, including the weather, and when I try searching for something close to me, like a McDonalds, or an animal shelter, it always gives me places in Washington D.C.

:)

 

replacing C: with larger M.2 NVme drive and move programs installed on D: to the new M.2 drive

I have a DELL Desktop Computer XPS XPS8920-7581SLV-PUS Intel Core i7 7th Gen 7700 desktop running Windows 10 Pro with the Toshiba 250 GB M.2 NVme drive as the C: drive and a 1TB hard disk as the D: drive. I have installed a couple of games and applications to the D: drive due to the size of the install files.

I am now planning to replace the Toshiba 250 GB M.2 drive with a Samsung 500 GB 970 EVO M.2 NVme drive.

The procedure I plan to use is to:

• clone the Toshiba drive to a new Western Digital SSD installed in a hard disk bay
  
• replace the Toshiba with the Samsung
  
• clone the new SSD back to the Samsung
  

At that point I should have a bootable C: on the Samsung NVme drive.

The next step would be to move the games and applications from the 1TB hard disk to the Samsung NVme drive since I now have the space for them.

However it is not really possible to just move installed applications due to all the Registry changes that would be needed.

The two applications are Visual Studio 2015 and 2017 (both Community Edition) and the games are World of Warcraft, Destiny 2, and Fallout 4 (the last being a Steam download).

So I am looking for advice on these changes.

Alternative approaches

It seems that I have a couple of options:

• clone the 1TB hard disk to the new SSD and just use the new SSD as D:
  
• uninstall the games and applications then reinstall them to the new C:
  
• create a D: partition on the new NVme drive and copy the installation folders there
  

The easiest approach would seem to be to clone the 1TB drive to the new SSD as D: and move on. However I would be missing out on the NVme goodness with the games as well as the Visual Studio programming environment.

The most straightforward approach would be to uninstall the games and applications from the 1TB hard disk and then reinstall them to the C: drive.

The applications are Visual Studio 2015 and Visual Studio 2017, both Community Edition. These would both be straightforward to uninstall from D: and reinstall to C:.

The games are World of Warcraft and Destiny 2 from Blizzard and Fallout 4 from Steam. These games will require long download time probably two or three days over my internet access. And I would have to start Fallout 4 all over again.

Concluding thoughts

Perhaps the best option would be to combine the first two options.

Since the Visual Studio uninstall and install would be fairly painless I could do that while leaving the games on the 1TB drive and then do the clone of the 1TB drive to the new SSD. Then at a later date I could move World of Warcraft and Destiny 2 over to the NVme drive.

I would think that working with Visual Studio would be easier and quicker from the NVme C: drive while the games would be quick and responsive enough if the game assets are on an SSD.

 

D drive

Hi,

Based on the details you have provided us, it appears that there might be some corrupted contents on the said partition. We can also consider that this is caused by a virus.

For us to check if a certain virus is hiding your files, kindly follow the steps below:

• Type Command prompt in the search bar.
• Type-in the following command:
  
  attrib -h -r -s /s /d D:\*.*
• Press Enter to execute the command.

If you think that there is nothing important stored in it, then we suggest that you reformat your D drive so that you can use the free space for important files.

You can follow the steps below to start with the process:

• Click on the File Explorer.
• Select This PC.
• Right-click on your D drive, then click on Format.
• Follow the on-screen process to finish formatting the partition.

Let us know how it goes so that we can further assist you.

 

Gateway laptop stuck on gateway screen help

My Gateway laptop was running on windows 10. Windows ran some updates. Its now unable to get passed the Gateway screen.

In bios I tried

• disabling csm support
  
• disabling secure boot mode
  
• changing the boot order to prioritize the usb
  

I have tried using windows 10 creating bootable usb

1. I click install and it takes me to windows setup where I accept the license terms and hit next
   
2. WINDOWS SETUP WINDOW Two options are Given
   

• UPGRADE- not available if you start your computer using windows media
  
• CUSTOM- It asks where i want to install Windows / A warning sign at the bottom reads --windows can't be installed on this drive--
  
  INSIDE THE WINDOWS SETUP MENU
  
• Drive 0 Unallocated space....... total size 0.0MG....free space 0.0MG
  
• a few options at the bottom read refresh, delete, format, new. load driver, extend.
  
• if I choose load and browse media selecting the usb, I get an error that no drivers were found. there's no room to format... IS MY SSD not recognized?
  

IF I TRY TROUBLESHOOTING AT THE ADVANCED OPTIONS

• Startup Repair - could not repair your PC
  

I dont think my SSD is being recognized...

I am unsure of what configurations in BIOS could be made to fix this issue.