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Post by rhyls on Nov 15, 2014 18:14:44 GMT
Look, If I supply the wine etc why don't you all come rounds to my place and sort me out. I don't know which hurts most right now, my head or my foot.
If I look cross eyed that's because I am totally confused, Intelligent people are writing in perfectly good english and I don't understand a word.
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Post by Sniffles on Nov 15, 2014 23:50:34 GMT
If your bigger hard drive is mostly empty, why don't you just copy everything from E to C, and install a OS on E? Once that's done, copy files from C to E, then reformat C? Of course, doing this, you will have to reinstall all the softwares, but it's less prone to registry errors. If you know how to use diskpart from command prompt. Moving files around an OS sounds easy, but if something wrong happened, it can easily ruin the entire system. Dova, I think? I understand what you say, I assume OS = operating system! On my E drive I have 1.46 TB free(TB = trillion byte?) I havent space on my c drive for the 'E' stuff. I could put all 230GB from C to E. Then C would be completely empty. Can I then FORMAT it without a disc? Normally my techie takes it away and does what is needed.I don't even have a Win 7 disc. But how do I change the Drive Letters So E becomes C and the old C can be E empty! That allows me to install Skyrim onto the new C drive as Steam wants to do. Apart from regedit, I know nothing re the booot or bios, never heard of diskpart 'reinstall all the softwares,' what softwares? I think you mean my personal software ie Antivirus etc Search your computer for the technical name of your hard drives. It will be in some arcane list under computer properties and read like WDC WD5003AZEX.... Note which one is the old drive and which one is new. This is the names of the drives you must work with until they get assigned as c: e: etc. The most simple way. 1: Obtain your original Operating System disk. (OS) 2. Remove the old c: hard drive. 3: Place OS disc in drive. 4. Turn on computer. 5. Let the OS disc boot the computer and follow it's directions on a new installation. It will put a new OS on your new hard disc drive. 6. When the OS is installed turn off computer and reinstall the old hard drive. 7. When you boot the computer will detect 2 Operating Systems and ask you which one to you want to run the computer. Tell it the new one. 8. Start the process of recovering all your old programs and files. A little more complex. 1. Start EaseUS back up program. 2. Tell it to Clone c: to e: Follow it's directions carefully. It may detect 2 OS and ask which one to make active. Tell it the new hard drive. 3. Restart the computer. It may detect 2 OS and ask which one to make active. Tell it the new hard drive. If all goes well you will have your operating system on the new drive. The computer will rename the c: and e: as the OS ALWAYS boots from the c: The second way, if it works, does not require you to reinstall any programs. If neither works, bring comp to your tech.
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Post by jet4571 on Nov 16, 2014 9:43:04 GMT
Well, I'm royally confused. I just follow his instructions. On this computer if the boot up takes more than 60 seconds 3 days in a row I plug in a memory stick and reboot. About 5 seconds later a screen comes up. I arrow down to restore and hit enter. Another screen comes up and I arrow down to the first hieroglyphics and hit enter again then go make a cup of coffee and feed the cats. When I get back I have a brand new OS that boots in 34 seconds, all programs up and working. I don't need the memory stick. He can do it remotely and does to dozens of computers each day but I'm too stupid to remember to leave the computer on during the maintenance period. Sounds like you are not doing a full install but more like reverting to a checkpoint in System Restore or the dozens of other variations of what was Norton Ghost. quick and simple to use compared to doing a full install with updates and getting things back the way they were. Highly suggested to do if you get a stable install and can keep it stable over time, saves a ton of time waiting for windows to download updates and the hundreds of restarts that can come with a fresh install.
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Post by Sniffles on Nov 16, 2014 10:15:29 GMT
Sounds like you are not doing a full install but more like reverting to a checkpoint in System Restore or the dozens of other variations of what was Norton Ghost. quick and simple to use compared to doing a full install with updates and getting things back the way they were. Highly suggested to do if you get a stable install and can keep it stable over time, saves a ton of time waiting for windows to download updates and the hundreds of restarts that can come with a fresh install. Gads. I tried Norton Ghost once. It took HOURS! And so confusing! No, I'm using EaseUS backup. The restored file is the full drive c: backup file. 24GB. The program is incredibly fast. To back up the c: takes about 5 minutes. To restore I use it's boot which is Linux and it takes about 7 minutes. Speaking of which it seems I've got a virus and need to restore again. Everytime I run GOM player a window pops up and says Firefox wants to download something. That sounds spooky. This is the backup file: Disk and Partition backup 02-9-2014 5-47 AM.PBD 24,515,068 KB Okay, I'm wrong. It took 25 minutes to recover. Unusually slow. I need to check with my tech. But a brand new OS once again. If it helps explain things, EaseUS backup runs partly in linux and has a dual boot loader which is normally hidden. I told it to recover while in Windows which made it partly do things there then rebooted to linux to finish the job. As my tech explained, linux runs circles around any Windows program when it comes to file handling.
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Post by Sniffles on Nov 17, 2014 2:50:05 GMT
This is the backup file: Disk and Partition backup 02-9-2014 5-47 AM.PBD 24,515,068 KB Okay, I'm wrong. It took 25 minutes to recover. Unusually slow. I need to check with my tech. But a brand new OS once again. If it helps explain things, EaseUS backup runs partly in linux and has a dual boot loader which is normally hidden. I told it to recover while in Windows which made it partly do things there then rebooted to linux to finish the job. As my tech explained, linux runs circles around any Windows program when it comes to file handling. Techy: "A, I seriously doubt you and yours can even tell time before noon let alone keep accurate track of intervals. 20 minutes is about average for <50GB restore. B, starting a restore from within the Windows OS requires both operating systems running at once. Windows has to put all the evils of your world back in it's box in it's neat orderly manner which is, to give a rough analogy, very similar to a D9 Caterpillar tractor shoving the mountains of trash around at the local landfill. C, you then have a reboot and the X OS has to check and make certain nothing will interfere with the critical copying operation. Netwrok connections must be dedicated or suspended and both drives have to be tested. D, taking the horrors into account that you two subject your computer to, notify me if it takes more than 40 minutes, real time as measured by Earth standards."
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Post by Dova on Nov 17, 2014 18:06:06 GMT
Oh Dal, so much faith in me there are many others who are more capable than me here, but I do try. Rhyls, if you still need help, please give us the latest update about your computer, i.e. have you proceeded with some of the suggestions here?
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Post by rhyls on Nov 18, 2014 16:42:24 GMT
Writing this on my laptop. I followed some insructions! and either I did it incorrectly or ?. Anyway, it's now at my techie guy's being bandaged. I'm having a 2TB drive and a SSD 3TB drive put in The 2TB is original E drive So Skyrim, here I come, back in my full glory no more weird stuff..........EVENTUALLY! Thanks anyway everybody.
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