I'm trying to clone a clean Windows installation from SSD partition to HD partition.  The problem is every time I try to boot from cloned partition, no matter which disk-cloning software I used, I end up with blue screen:     Recovery      Your PC needs to be repaired      Error code: 0xc0000225   I guess it's the issue of boot config and drive letters conflict.  I resolved it once, but don't remember which program exactly I used. Or perhaps I cloned whole drive, this time I would like to clone partition only - which may not be so easy.
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I have an HP laptop Pavilion DV4. Last night, I installed Ubuntu and there was an problem about partitioning the hard disk, and I think I deleted the Windows boot record.  I didn't burn a recovery disc but there is built-in recovery partition on the hard disk.  All I want to do is to perform a Factory Restore but I need recovery disc. I could burn that disc from the recovery partition using HP recovery manager, but can't burn now. I can't also boot HP recovery manager using F11 key, because it has the same boot error.  I want to boot Windows 7 and want to burn recovery disc. How can I boot into my old windows 7. If I can boot it, I can burn Recovery Disc and I will make Factory Restore if it's needed.  I didn't make any changes to windows 7 partition but I did a problem about Boot Record.  There is a system partition on hard disk with the size of about 200 MB.There is BOOT folder too.  Installation of Ubuntu also failed, so I'm booting from Live Ubuntu USB.
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What is the best way to clone a disk between two Macs? I ask this every couple years or so and every time I get the same answer. "Use ", they say. But the unfortunate fact is that CCC is a file-level copy between disks. When I migrate to my new Mac, sure all the files are there but there are quirks here and there (including file dates being different etc).   So, really now, once again: how do you clone the disk over byte-for-byte?
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I recently upgraded my motherboard from a Gigabyte 78LMT-S2p to a Gigabyte 990FXA-UD3. When I tried booting up Windows it blue-screened, and after some research I learned that it has something to do with the drivers and that the easiest solution would be to reinstall Windows 7. I also read that it is possible to get Windows running without reinstalling it, but I was unable to find any sort of guidance on how to go about that. I'm currently running Windows 7 off of a spare HDD I had, so I'm wondering if there is some way to fix the old installation from this new installation on a different drive.
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I would like to clone a single partition off of my current HDD to a newer, larger SSHD. The partition that I would like to clone is running Linux Mint 17.1. Using a bootable Clonezilla USB, I have been able to clone the entire old disk to a new disk, but the Mint partition is preceded by a large, messy Windows 8.1 partition. The Windows 8.1 partition is failing on the HDD, however, so I only want to keep the Mint partition.  Could I do this with Clonezilla, GParted, dd, or some combination?
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I have 12 brand new computers that I am configuring for a client. Instead of setting them all up one at a time I want to configure one PC, create an image and mount that image across the rest of my PCs. I have done this successfully for all the PCs but now I am wondering if this is going to cause problems. Here are the concerns I have.   Will this cause all of the PCs to use the same Windows 10 Product Key which will violate the licensing agreement? Under "Device Specifications" in the "About" section of "System Settings", the "Device ID" and "Product ID" are now identical across all 12 PCs. What are those two values used for? Will this cause problems having 12 PCs on the same network with these two values duplicated?   In an attempt to work around this issues, I decided to test a disc Clone rather than just using my backup image. So I reset one of the PCs back to the factory original settings and cloned the disc from my "model" machine. After performing the clone I can confirm the same experience was seen. The Device ID and Product ID was now again duplicated on the destination machine.  I am using Acronis True Image 2019 for image and cloning, and the new PCs are Lenovo P330s.
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Ok, I want to do a "paranoid" migration from a a HDD to a SSD. There will be no shrinking involved.  For the moment this is what I know/have:   Connect SSD and create an 1MB aligned partition, at least the size of the C: from the HDD Clone C: to SSD using Easeus DiskCopy in DOS mode Use a small linux distro and byte-compare source and clone: cmp /dev/sda1 /dev/sdb1 just to make sure that everything is perfectly copied. (I've personally encountered a situation where Macrium Reflect Free did not clone byte perfect, after comparing manually the files.)   Now here comes the part which I don't know:   Make the new cloned partition bootable, since the alignment was changed. How? I've seen these, but not sure:  bootrec /fixboot bootrec /fixmbr bcdboot c:\windows  Change the disk ID, so there will be no collisions in case you connect both the HDD and the SSD at the same time Are there other things to consider?   I'm aiming to make this as safe and as reliable as possible, so any advice is welcome.
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I have been playing with Ubuntu for a few weeks now, and I'd like to revert my computer back to it's original - factory - defaults.   On the computer I have a recovery partition (it's a netbook). I went through the process of recovery and everything seemed fine. However, when I restart the computer I'm presented with   grub rescue &gt;   Now, my understanding is that when I installed Ubuntu "side by side" it replaced the MBR or something like it, with GRUB.   I've read on a slew of forums, that I need to use a Windows Recovery Disk.   Here are my issues:   a) I don't have a recovery disk, I have a recovery partition - it's a netbook. b) I don't have an external cd drive.   What I do have is a USB key that has about 1gb of space on it.   Thanks in advance.
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Here is the error message:  System Restore did not complete successfully. Your computer's system files and settings were not changed. Details: System Restore failed while restoring the directory from the restore point. Source: AppxStaging Destination: %ProgramFiles%\WindowsApps An unspecified error occurred during System Restore. (0x80070091)   What I've tried so far:  chkdsk /f /r C: (didn't work) tried running in safe mode the system restore (didn't work) tried with another system restore point (didn't work)
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Got a bluescreen in windows while cloning a mercurial repository.  After reboot, I now get this message for almost all hg commands:   c:\src\>hg commit waiting for lock on repository c:\src\McVrsServer held by '\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\ x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00' interrupted!   Google is no help.  Any tips?
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Basically, I want to get a new PC, but I have so many software/games installed on my current hard drive, that I don't want to waste the time to re-install/re-configure. Would it work if I just take out my current hard drive, and stick it into a new PC? the motherboard/video card etc are all different, would the new PC boot up and work flawlessly?  The operating system is Windows 7.
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A Windows-7 laptop was upgraded to Windows-10 during the Microsoft free upgrade period when they were nudging users to migrate away from 7 to 10.  The system is sluggish and crash prone: I would like create a fresh install with a new SSD from a Windows 10 install .iso burned to a USB drive.  Is it possible (and how can) the the license-key from the old drive be recovered and migrated to a fresh install?   If this is not the right question to ask, I would appreciate edits to the questions: thank you.
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I have a hard drive which is 153 GB with 116 GB free space. I would like to clone this drive to a hard drive which is a 149 GB big (this is the largest hard drive I have... It would be typical that my largest drive is only 4 GB to small).   Is there any way to do this (preferably with free or open source programs)? I am running Windows XP.
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I installed Windows 7 and Windows 8 in EFI mode on a hard disk some days ago. Today, the bootloader got missing/corrupted.  I currently have the Windows 8 installer on a flash drive and tried using the Automatic Repair option to repair the bootloader but it didn't do anything. The Startup Repair option is also missing in the Windows 8 installer.  How I can repair/recreate the EFI bootloader from the Command Prompt?  BCDEDIT returns the following message:  The requested system device cannot be found.
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I am getting the following message whenever I start my laptop:  Windows Boot Manager   Windows failed to start. A recent hardware or software change might be the cause.   To fix the problem:  &nbsp;&nbsp;1. Insert your Windows installation disc and restart your computer.  &nbsp;&nbsp;2. Choose your language settings, and then click "Next." &nbsp;&nbsp;3. Click "repair your computer."  If you don't have this disc, contact your system administrator or computer manufacturer for assistance.   &nbsp;&nbsp;File: \Boot\BCD  &nbsp;&nbsp;Status: 0xc000000f  I have googled about the error, and from the message it looks like I need to boot my laptop from the Windows installation disc.  My laptop has Windows 7 Professional SP1 x86 installed, but when I try to insert Windows 7 Professional x86 I get the same error. Do I require an SP1 disc? I did setup CD/DVD drive as first in the boot order, but I still got the same error.  Also what other options should I try to get to the Windows 7 System Repair Screen, so that I can repair/rebuild the BCD file?
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Upon bootup I have a drive that will spin up click and few times then spin down.  I have a spare drive (same model number) I attempted to transfer the heads from with no luck, HOWEVER, the heads from the bad drive work fine in the spare drive.  Swapping the PCB has no effect either.  So although it seems to spin up fine, could the problem be with the platter motor?
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I just tried to install some updates for my laptop, and now it is stuck in an automatic repair loop. From what I've been able to find so far in the logs, I believe it is some problem with the registry.  The system restore tells me that there are multiple restore points available, including one it created just before attempting to install the updates. However, it tells me that I can't restore my C: drive because "You must enable system protection on this drive".  Is there a way that I can enable system protection on my drive through the command prompt? Failing that, is there a way to restore just the registry (either manually or automatically)? I've been able to open up regedit, though I have no clue what part of the registry is corrupted.  Update:  Here's the only relevant thing the SrtTrail.txt log has to say about the issue:  Root cause fount: --------------------------- Registry is corrupt.  Repair action: System Restore Result: Failed. Error code = 0x1f Time taken = 588875 ms  Repair action: Registry roll back Result: Failed. Error code = 0x3 Time taken = 0 ms   Update 2:  I booted using the legacy boot and managed to surface a new error:  Realtek PCle FE Family Controller Series v1.27 (10/31/11) PXE-E61: Media test failure, check cable    Looks like this is a red herring. This just means that I can't boot from the network.
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NVIDIA drivers upgrade crashed my Windows 7 installation, so I'm working to undo the damage.  What I can do: I can boot Windows install from the USB drive, and I can boot the . Although automated Windows repair fails, I can get to command prompt when I boot Windows install from USB drive, and I can see my drive and all my data.  What I cannot do: I cannot boot into Windows - I get this message:  Windows failed to start. A recent hardware or software change might be the cause. To fix the problem: 1. Insert Windows CD and run a repair your computer option. File: /Boot/BCD Status: 0xc000000f Info: an error occurred while attempting to read the boot configuration data.   It seems that something is wrong with my /Boot/BCD, so I'm trying to recreate it from scratch. I've tried all the methods detailed  (including Windows repair which fails), and I'm left with the last one (near the bottom of that page). When I type the following command as in the tutorial:  bcdedit.exe /import c:\boot\bcd.temp   ...it fails with the following error:  The store import operation has failed. The requested system device cannot be found.   Many Google results say that I must use diskpart to set my partition active, however it's already set as active.  Also, when I try this:  bcdedit /enum   It fails with similar message:  The boot configuration data store could not be opened. The requested system device cannot be found.   Does anyone know what does that error message mean, and what is the requested system device?  I'd like to avoid having to reinstall Windows since all the files on disk seem to be fine.