Windows 10: Windows 10 fonts are grey, not black, after hard drive replacement

This issue has been discussed before but the thread I found was closed and I have a new wrinkle anyway.My computer is about 8 years old--Dell desktop. Two days ago the hard drive failed. I have an excellent local repairman and I took it to him. He said he could replace the hard drive with a better one, save all my software, and it would run faster. He did all that within 24 hours and everything worked as advertised. Except for one new problem. The type is quite faint. I thought changing the Windows 10 font would help, but it didn't. I just tried some troubleshooting from an earlier thread

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Windows 10, Occasional Error, No Hard Drive, after Hard Drive Replacement

Hi,

System corruption can cause issues detecting your computer's hard drive. For us to properly investigate on your concern, we'd like to confirm the following information:

• On which cases do you receive the startup error?
• Aside from replacing the hard drive, have you made any significant changes to your device prior to this happening?
• Have you tried plugging in the replaced hard drive to another computer to check if the same thing occurs?
• What troubleshooting steps have you done so far?

We will be waiting for your reply so we can move forward to resolving your query.

 

Hard drive/ OS issue

a guy suggested :

• shutdown
• unhooked HDD
• restarted
• yay !!
• reconnected HDD
• restarted
• yay !!

also , try method 3
How do I unlock the drive where Windows 10/11 is installed?

 

Replacing old hard drive, need way to copy Windows installation across

Hey Guys,
What would be the best way of copying/imaging the entire contents of an old system drive over to a replacement hard disk for the same machine? I need to copy the Windows installations and all other data to the new drive, and then format the old drive to use as a backup.

Any suggestions? *Smile