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Hi guys, I am in dire need of some help/advice. My parents are on vacation and I thought I would finally upgrade my mother's PC. This PC was still running on Windows XP along with several old programs. Normally I would do a clean install, however she wanted to keep everything *sigh* So first...

Well I have decided to take the plunge and update to Windows 10 from Windows 7 Pro. At the same time I intend to upgrade the hard drive on my laptop to an SSD. The thing that I am trying to figure out is the cleanest and most effective method to accomplish this. Which one these do you...

I think this experience may be useful to Win7/8 users who build and maintain home and small business systems. I regularly clone and swap drives keeping at least one spare at the ready per system at all times. I was shocked to discover that under certain conditions Win7 installation creates a...

I have a Windows 8.1 Asus UX303LA laptop up-to-date on all updates. If I do a shift + restart, it goes to a "Choose Options" screen that includes "Continue", "Use a Device", Troubleshoot" and "Turn Off". If I select "Troubleshoot", the options are, "UEFI Firmware" and "Startup Settings". There...

Hello! This one should twist your head a bit if you’re anything like me! I have a Pavilion M6 1045DX laptop and the HD crashed. It was 750GB so off to eBay I went to buy another one. I decided to buy a NEW SEALED HD so I bought a blue label WD brand new. (March 2014) Just for grins I wiped and...

Hi, I have replaced an IDE HDD with a cloned SDD on an XP SP3 (Asus motherboard) PC. The PC boots up off SDD ok after the error message "IDE HDD master not found press F1" and pressing F1. I'm trying to get rid of this error message. The Bios setup thinks the IDE is still in the PC even thought...

I know I went the wrong way about this....but can anyone point to a SIMPLE solution? So I have an Athlon 64 as my spare PC and it runs XP perfectly on 4Gb Ram. And after building my Haswell i7 and upgrading the SSD to the Samsung EVO 250Gb, I had a Samsung Pro 128Gb spare; and a copy of...

I'm hoping you guys can help a guy who knows just enough to get himself into trouble. I just bought the HP Envy 17t-j100 Quad Edition with the 1TB hybrid drive and the 240GB SSD Upgrade Kit that you can get on the Customize and Buy page. I wanted to put the OS onto the SSD because I haul my...

I'm hoping you guys can help a guy who knows just enough to get himself into trouble. I just bought the HP Envy 17t-j100 Quad Edition with the 1TB hybrid drive and the 240GB SSD Upgrade Kit that you can get on the Customize and Buy page. I wanted to put the OS onto the SSD because I haul my...

When I purchased a SSD, I cloned my Windows 7 mechanical hard drive to the SSD and set the SSD as the boot drive. I need to make the mechanical HD the boot drive again. The BIOS (American Megatrends) lists both drives: SATA Port2 - the SSD drive; SATA Port3 - the mechanical HD. However, the HD...

Hello my name is Ethan, It is nearing the holidays and computer hardware updates are inevitable. My hard drive currently is a 500 gigabyte Seagate model and it is almost full. I am soon to receive and new 2 terabyte Seagate model. I am going to use a raid system on my motherboard to combine the...

I've been using True Image for synchronizing files between my video archives, and it does a good job, with one small problem that I would like to avoid. It synchronizes both ways. To illustrate what I mean, I think of the primary archives as the master, and the other as the slave. Since the...

I am replacing a hhd . win 7 pro 64b desktop pc. with a Seagate 1 T should it be formatted first of will the cloning tool do that also ?

Working on an older Dell desktop for a friend of my son. It was her Mom's and she had it passed on to her. She usually uses a Mac but has been using this Dell because it has Office and Quickbooks on it for her businesses (she does home cleaning and also photography). Anyway she brought it to...

Hello, So this is a bit of an interesting situation that is a tad long and I think it is best to start from the beginning. It started when I received this error when running with my Seagate HDD: Link Removed I got a new 1TB WD Black and used Acronis True Image to clone my Seagate on to my new...

I set up a dual boot on a 500 GB SSD. Cloned Windows 7 from a smaller SSD then installed Windows 8 on a second partition. It takes a full 60 seconds to reach the dual boot screen. It then loads very quickly. Here is what I've done to try and correct the problem: 1. Refreshed windows 8 2. removed...

My company bought about 15 pieces of desktop pc from dell. I created an Windows 7 image using Dell pre-installed Win7. I have used this image to clone 14 pieces of the dektops and there was no issue. However, the last one I encountered "Windows 7 Build 7601 This copy of Windows is not genuine"...

Can somebody please advise how to only copy data changes to a 2nd mirror drive (identical) is there any software free or buy that will do this job quickly as I have been doing it manually. I have 2 drive identical and I work on one for some time then I clone it to the 2nd drive but all I really...

I need to install Windows 7 on multiple computers (over 20), overwriting the original install with a customized one with added software. I would use boot time imaging software to simply load the image but I am concerned about the license key for each computer. Could I update the cloned...