Computer Stuck In Weird Loop

A few goof ups from being tired, but we made it! I see the desktop now, mouse pad and keyboard are working and Windows 11 is installed. Thank you!

 

Still going good. I adjusted her settings back to the way she liked it. Tomorrow I'll work on downloading her stuff. No issues at all!

Do we need to change the settings in her BIOS back or anything, or should we leave well enough alone?

I can't believe we did it! You are amazing as always! Thank you for your help!

 

Her computer is up to date. I don't know how to tell about the drivers, but it seems to be functioning properly so far. You were right, the SSD is so much faster...I may be borrowing her computer from time to time to make up for how much she's been using mine

I didn't know we could do that with her old hard drive, will it work even though it is broken? I'll have to ask her and see if she's interested in trying that.

 

I don't see any exclamation points.

 

She's wondering if it would be possible to transfer some games from her old hard drive, since if she just downloads them fresh on her "new computer" her progress will be lost?

 

I didn't get back to this until late, so I messed with the BIOS without my friend. Look what happened!:

I followed the steps I did before, and enabled Intel VMD Controller, then hit F10 to save and exit. The computer restarted. Then it ran into some trouble and had to restart; Restart; then began Preparing Automatic Repair! I had terrible deja vu, but luckily it made it into the recovery environment. I just shut the computer down, went back into BIOS and disabled Intel VMD Controller again. After this the computer started fine.

I don't know why it would do this. What do you think we should do about it? Personally I say forget it. Why do we need Intel to control the VMD anyway? It's a free country...

Her games are by Big Fish, and since her computer broke they've updated their game manager. The games are the same, and download the same way. Could I start downloading some, or would it mess up things if we were able to copy her data files from the old hard drive?

 

The adapter for the hard drive is here, and her games are downloaded. Do I just turn on her computer, plug in the old hard drive, and browse around as if it were a USB?