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    Windows 7 Windows not genuine after cloning partioned drive letters incorrect

    After trying to clone my hard drive my new hard drive had a bootmgr missing error, that’s now irrelevant As I have reinstalled windows on that one , I have now tried to reuse my original hard drive And it goes to the login screen I enter my password it say preparing desktop. Screen is all blue...
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    Windows 7 Non-bootable Windows 7. The cloned version WORKS!

    Hi. Windows 7 Ultimate x86 It was on my original 1TB Western Digital HDD. After several consecutive PC crashes it doesn't boot anymore. After the BIOS POST there appears a blinking underscore in the top left corner, and it stays in that state forever. (I don't want to perform a clean Windows...
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    Windows 7 Exposing a virgin 2009 win 7 HDD to the internet in 2020 for updates Questions

    I just returned my 2009 win7 Toshiba Laptop HDD back to its factory defaults from the OEM hidden restore partition. With the final security patches for win7 due out next month in January 2020, I want to have a clean fresh out-of-box 2020 win7 install with all the service packs and security...
  4. Windows 10 can not loggin after cloning harddrive

    I just cloned my old SSHD onto an SSD and now when I try boot my PC with the SSD it keeps saying my password is incorrect. It boots up fine all the way to the login screen (I can see my old wallpaper and everything looks normal) but I just cant seem to log in, I even tried changing my password...
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    Windows 7 Windows 7 goes into Restarting Loop after installing Windows 10

    Hi, everyone. Trying to fix this issue already 2nd day and I realize that I need more help. My windows 7 was installed on Samsung SSD. I recently got Crucial SSD and decided to install Windows 10 as second OS. Before installation I decided to change my Windows 7 disk from MBR to GPT using...
  6. Cloning your SSD onto a new SSD

    Hi all, I'm currently in the process of moving over from MacOS to Windows. While it has not been a problem-free experience (is there really no affordable and user-friendly ref manager for Windows?) I'm generally satisfied with my machine. Thing is, though, that just now that I have everything...
  7. Windows 10 hi :) can u please help me with my new ssd ? thanks

    hi to all sorry for my bad english soo i ve bought new ssd 240 gb and i ve done the cloning process but when i unplug the hdd from the pc , the pc tell me " cant find boot file......" (black pic ) i think i may find the solution here Windows 10 - Windows Boot Manager on wrong drive and i dont...
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    Windows 10 Macrium and windows

    The following is from the Macrium knowledge base: "Windows cannot boot from a USB connected drive. This is a restriction imposed by Windows." I have created a backup on my HP Pocket external drive - usb connection - from reading the above, looks like it is a worthless effort. And then...
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    Windows 10 Cloned a hdd but does not show in bios for boot, only in Legacy

    I have a Dell xps 8700 pc with Windows 10 installed. I cloned my new wd hdd from a ssd card. In the bios under UEFI boot the hdd does not show up in the boot order, but does show up in the Legacy boot order. I played around for a few hours with this but to no avail. Any help to get it to boot...
  10. Freezes and five beeps

    I recently changed my Hard drive for a SSD, and today ive gotten multiple freezes, the computer is unresponsive and all audio stops for about a minute. There is no logs in the event viewer either. This last time, everything froze, but i was still able to move my mouse, but it was extremely...
  11. Windows 10 Diskpart seems confused as to disk size - but only sometimes

    Hello everyone, I've come across a weird problem that I'd like to share with you: under certain circumstances, Diskpart and some other programs don't report the correct capacity of a hard disk. The disk in question is a new 4 TB, or 3.64 TiB (3726 GiB), Seagate BarraCuda, initalized as a GPT...
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    Windows 7 Cloning a drive in Windows

    I am a Mac user, but at work I use Windows 7. How do Windows users clone one drive to another? Norton Ghost no longer exists and it was the software used to do such a task.
  13. Windows 10 Watchdog crash and no screen/PC unusable but on

    Hi, the last week I'm been suffering freezes and reboots. I had one or two BSOD but that doesn't seem to be the main problem, and I have no dumps of them. I have recently changed from a HDD to a SSD, I have applied a theme on my Windows 10, and I have updated to Fall Creators update. I cloned...
  14. Windows 10 Cloning an SSD to a new one - is it possible?

    Hi all, Hoping I'm not duplicating anything obvious, but what I found was already quite old. As a recent convert (albeit one that's still unsure) from MacOS, I wondered whether it would be possible to simply "clone" my Lenovo T470's SSD to a new, bigger one, so that I don't need to reconfigure...
  15. Windows 10 Can't recognize HDD as HDD

    Not sure whats going on but for some dumb reason windows 10 is not recognizing my 3TB Hitachi UltraStar 7K3000 as a HDD it insists its a SSD. My 850 evo has to go back to samsung so they told me to clone the c: onto D: then change boot order. Perfect sense, same as always so I do so and now not...
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    Windows 7 New SSD won't boot on Win7 pc

    I installed a new Sandisk SSD on my old PC (using EaseToDo for the cloning) but had to leave the old drive connected as well, due to boot issues which I gave up trying to resolve. I'm sorry if today's question doesn't make sense: do I gain any advantage by opening Windows with the old drive...
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    Windows 10 Partition query.

    Since new my Samsung R540 laptop has had two partitions, C for programs and D for data. I decided to replace the (slow) HDD with a SSD, and in the cloning process somehow everything was put into one partition. Is there any advantage in having separate partitions for programs and data?
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    Windows 8 Couple of questions before cloning W8

    Hello I'd like to save an image of Windows 8 onto a second partition using Clonezilla, and have a couple of questions before proceeding: 1. Why does W8 create two partitions (350MB and 147.3GB) instead of just one? 2. When running fdisk in Linux, why does it display so many /dev/ramX...
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    Windows 7 disk clone and boot selection

    Pardon my cluelessness, but I'm trying to fix up a backup disk for my mother's Win7 machine. I will be installing a second drive that I intend to clone onto from the original. I assume such a clone will be bootable. But how do I tell the system which disk to boot on? As in, at startup, I ought...
  20. Windows 10 Boot disk failure message on first boot attempt

    Apologies if I am duplicating an issue here. Just recently I bought a new copy of Windows 10 64 bit and a Toshiba Q300 480g SSD. I removed the old HDD (which was still running XP), connected the SSD and tried to install Windows 10. No luck at all - it did not identify the SSD drive and...