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I think it worked. Only time will tell.

trying to create rescue media and it's asking for 142.6 MB DL from microsoft. It's also asking for PE zip file in the background.......just found a rescue iso file for winxp 32-bit......will try burning this ISO and see if this fixes it upon reboot. Am I on the right track?

Can someone please tell me if this is what I'm supposed to do and, if so, how? "Macrium Reflect Windows PE Rescue Tools and selected the Macrium menu item "Repair Boot Problems" and accepted all of the defaults" Thank you.

I'm sure it's something very simple like the tables didn't get cloned or something. Also, it keeps telling me that update 7.3.6391 is available, but do I really want to do that? Any help would be appreciated. Thank you. EDIT: decided to go ahead and create images of my partitions with MR to...

Almost there..........found out some interesting things today. My Active Disk Image program that I was using to backup my partitions for about 8-10 years is not able to restore the images because the restore program was a demo (even though I paid for the program way back when). I was able to...

Not in the biz, but it seems like you're worried a little about Device 1 and it doesn't match the stats of your 3rd one that well. Logically then, keep Device Y.

Either going to use Active Disk Image to restore images or Macrium to clone partitions, then in either of the first two cases will use MiniTool Partition Wizard to expand each image/clone to full extent of each partition. Hopefully, this works tonight.

I finished backing up last night; Acronis True Image (free with WD HD) won't even install in WinXP and will not work from another computer on my local network at home. Might have to install Macrium and see what happens.

Clone Disk won't let you set sizes of partition. Looks like restore image or try that Macrium Reflect thing. Any advice?

Active Disk Image does have a Clone Disk to do the whole drive at once, but it deletes all partitions before running on whole disk and does not tell you if you can set the sizes for each partition or not. I'm guessing you cannot. After checking this, it looks like I can also try Clone Disk for...

While I'm backing up data, I was wondering about something. If I create a disk image of each partition (including C) using Active Disk Image 3.2.6, then why couldn't I restore each image to one of the newly-partitioned 2TB HDs. In theory, it sounds like this could work. Any reason why it...

I guess soon is a relative term...LOL. In the process of backing up my data and will probably do this tomorrow. I have 5 partitions and the first one is the system (C: drive). I was going to just copy the other 4 over to the new drive once I partitioned it into larger partitions, but there's...

Haven't ordered drives yet, but this will be done very soon.

It's chilling for a few days now. Anyone know what the problem was? Thank you.

Still working fine, but blinks orange sometimes. At 98% and everything working fine. Just curious why the blinking orange? Does it not like the new battery? Should I just ignore it if everything working fine? EDIT: just to clarify, it's the battery light on front of laptop on edge (not in...

Now it decides to blink orange for no reason (at least to me). Made the mistake of running the MSI battery calibration, so I could not use laptop for a while. Any idea why it was blinking orange? It did not seem to be for the reason given online.

I looked at it briefly when I was putting the new battery in and I think it's soldered to the board. no way I'm doing that myself; will take it to shop eventually. Thanks to everyone!:)

Yes, I may have to have charging port replaced. In the meantime, I have it working jammed at an angle and working (just can't move laptop...lol). Yes, socket is loose, but that's good thing as that's why I got it to work now. They really need to make these ports more robust; maybe they don't...

new battery is fine, so it looks like a matter of getting it charged up. It starts charging, then drops out, I wiggle it a little, charges for 10-15 mins, then drops out again, etc. Seriously, it looks like it was the port the whole time ass suspected. Sounds like I may have to bend inside...

changed the battery and went from 55% to 29% power left and it's still not charging. Should I run battery test on new battery?

Now it's not wanting to charge at all.:( Maybe it's time to yank the battery and see what's up. EDIT: actually, I barely get connection back for a few seconds unplugging at port and plugging back in, but then it goes out again.

What does that second number need to be for me to need battery replacement? Is there anything else I can do to improve the port connection besides cleaning?

I'm one of those idiots that leaves their laptop plugged in all the time, but lately the charge drops out without the plug part of the icon in Win10. Been having this problem for a while, but it eventually comes back if I unplug cord from port on laptop. Lately, I've resorted to cleaning out...

Hopefully, my old version of Active Disk Image won't have any trouble recognizing the new drives. I'm not stuck on DriveCopy, so I'll consider Macrium Reflect also. I should be ordering drives in a week or two and then I'll have to pick a slightly slower time for work to do it. Thank you...

So, format/partition new drives first, then DriveCopy, then switch and reboot, correct?

Definitely will backup everything before I do this. Also, I'm fairly certain I didn't need anything special for XP to recognize the drive and partition it, so that part should be easy. I believe I used an old version of DriveCopy to "clone" the C: drive. Something else to consider is a get a...

Probably is luck of the draw, but I have never had a WD crash on me and I've had Seagates crash and make a lot of noise. OK, so looks like I got my answers for 1, 3 and 4, so now I'm focusing on 2. Do I take out my backup 1TB and format/partition both new 2TB there one at a time or should I...

Stuck on WD Black, so I'm guessing that alone avoids SMR? These two I have now have lasted almost 14 years (next month), so....

3. what other WD Black models would you like me to consider? 4. so much for ordering from WD, only one internal HDD selling and it's red, yes only one of type I'm looking for.............this is not the hard drive you're looking for...;) Thank you.

Yes, only HDD for this system. Just haven't built or messed with a desktop in a while and I don't want to screw things up; I have helped a couple people since this one, but not in the biz. I don't hear any strange noises from any of the parts, but I'm figuring the hard drives might be the...

5. (#2 expanded) What's the easiest way to switch out HDs without reinstalling WinXP?

My SkaarjMasterDuo system is almost 14 years old and I think the only thing I did was change video card and sound card this whole time. I have two 1TB WD Black Desktop HDs (one is backup only) in there and would like to upgrade to 2TB WD Black HDs if it is even worth it. I'm running out of...

Ordered new video card this morning.

Now the only way to get my laptop to recognize the desktop HD is booting up the desktop in safemode. Any chance this could just be the video card flaking out and original thermal paste drying up on one or both of the GPUs? I do intend to test the HD, but I would like to rule out other things...

Why would you even think or suggest I didn't test it? Either help me or don't, I really don't care at this point.

CMOS battery is fine and I'm not even losing time. Can't test the HD yet, but I will if I have to. What does it sound like is most likely at this time to you?

This happened just after Christmas 2016: OK, so it's over 7 years old (SkaarjMasterDuo computer in sig) and has glitched a little over the past 2-3 years, but what it did tonight was bizarre: 1. Locked up when I was switching screen in Google Chrome 2. Rebooted and extra "......" appeared all...

OK, so the NET framework thing installed that says Dr Watson must just be some sort of update or telling Dr Watson to also consider NET Framework 2 errors. Anyway, what would happen if I set the auto value to 0 in that link in the registry? It seems to me that then if I got an explorer error, Dr...

Like that other thread says, I ran the Windows update cache cleaner and tried to duplicate the Explorer/DrWatson error and could not; of course, that doesn't mean my computer is fixed. I'm guessing I'd have to re-enable Explorer in DEP again to be sure. Anyway, Dr. Watson is part of NET...

This happened: http://forums.pcper.com/showthread.php?t=480013 I was just making sure if I had any programs that were dependent on any version of NET framework before I started uninstalling in reverse. Only thing I can think of right now that I have installed is MS Silverlight.