On 12/30/21 12:23, DennisG wrote: Hi Dennis, thanks for jumping in and sharing your thoughts, much appreciated. I will intersperse my responses to your thoughts/suggestions below -
On 12/30/21 11:26, Marc Chamberlin wrote:
... stuff sent to the bit bucket
My Google searches has led me to a speculation that HP may have installed Windows inside a Docker container which is preventing access to the SSD drive and partition tables, but I know nothing about Docker containers and whether that is a possibility or not. I tried to ask HP support that question also, but they were already refusing to offer any support, so refused to answer that question as well. Sigh, so I guess I am on my own and cannot ask HP any technical questions. Kinda a rough way to treat their customers IMHO!
Can anyone tell me if Docker container could be the problem? I would like to get a second opinion since I don't want to have to learn all about Docker containers if I don't have to. If so, couldn't I just blow away the Windows installation that HP did, and reinstall Windows in a regular fashion, or would doing so wreck Window's capability to use the Optane memory cache? Seems like that is a pretty risky thing to do...
As always, much appreciate any thoughts, advice, and/or guidance to a solution... Marc...
Fwiw, AFAIK Docker is a type of cross-platform sandbox which typically runs under a virtual machine or hypervisor. Among other things, it isolates the file system. My memory may be faulty, but IIRC I've seen ref's on the web indicating this tool is used on enterprise-class systems (which the Spectre falls under) on top of Intel's hypervisor.
Boot into windows and verify if Docker is installed /and/ whether it is running. From the windows power shell (this is important, as not all commands works from cmd) do:
docker ps
More discussion and examples here:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/57108228/how-to-check-if-docker-is-runni...
Well I gave this a shot, but Windoz Power Shell gave me the middle finger and said the docker command was unknown. So no joy. It appears Windoz 10 gave me several different Powershells to work with, not knowing the difference I tried them all and got the same finger...
Maybe first check (if I missed it in all the replies in this thread) whether virtualization is enabled in the bios. If so, disable it and try again.
I found it in the BIOS and turned it off as suggested. Again no joy installing OpenSuSE.
This machine is a discontinued model.
Yeah I know, introduced in late 2020 and I bought this laptop less than a year ago! Gotta love short product lifespans these days!
If it is on your machine and you purchased from HP directly, contact HP Support to determine how it is used and how to remove it before trying anything else. There have been issues with it on Windows 10 Home machines.
However, by chance if you purchased it from a 3rd-party I would inquire there first.
If you have read my previous posting, I tried contacting HP support and found them to be useless!
HTH,
It does... Thanks, Marc
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