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Re: Computer Troubleshooting/Help Master Thread
« Reply #1160 on: March 09, 2015, 12:24:03 AM »
If I see clearly the black wire going in to the hard drive is a sata cable check if the end of the cable looks like an L inside
it is, but to add another drive I'll need to get another cable

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Re: Computer Troubleshooting/Help Master Thread
« Reply #1161 on: March 09, 2015, 12:25:36 AM »
from pic 1 it seems that I have an available sata power cable.
Pic 2 looks like my 4 sata ports. Any difference in which color I connect to?
Each one is numbered as you see yellow is sata3 better use the lower numbers
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Re: Computer Troubleshooting/Help Master Thread
« Reply #1162 on: March 09, 2015, 12:27:25 AM »
Thanks.  should I swap the ssd and the hdd and put the ssd on the lower number if I intend to boot from the ssd?

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Re: Computer Troubleshooting/Help Master Thread
« Reply #1163 on: March 09, 2015, 12:29:19 AM »
Thanks.  should I swap the ssd and the hdd and put the ssd on the lower number if I intend to boot from the ssd?
I think you should put it in sata0 besides then you don't need to change the boot sequence
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Re: Computer Troubleshooting/Help Master Thread
« Reply #1164 on: March 09, 2015, 12:32:33 AM »
I think you should put it in sata0 besides then you don't need to change the boot sequence
thanks, really appreciate the help.
Right now hdd is sats0 optical is sata2.
Guess I'll plug ssd into 0 hdd into 1 optical can stay in 2

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Re: Computer Troubleshooting/Help Master Thread
« Reply #1165 on: March 09, 2015, 12:33:13 AM »
thanks, really appreciate the help.
Right now hdd is sats0 optical is sata2.
Guess I'll plug ssd into 0 hdd into 1 optical can stay in 2
That's what I would do
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Re: Computer Troubleshooting/Help Master Thread
« Reply #1166 on: March 11, 2015, 01:24:20 AM »
That's what I would do
thanks for your help. I installed the ssd and began the cloning.probably going to take a while so I'm gonna let it run and checkup in thE morning.
I'm wondering, can I safely boot with with both drives still attached, what'll happen with the drive letters?  Will the ssd become c: and the hdd automatically get a new letter?

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Re: Computer Troubleshooting/Help Master Thread
« Reply #1167 on: March 11, 2015, 06:20:05 AM »
thanks for your help. I installed the ssd and began the cloning.probably going to take a while so I'm gonna let it run and checkup in thE morning.
I'm wondering, can I safely boot with with both drives still attached, what'll happen with the drive letters?  Will the ssd become c: and the hdd automatically get a new letter?
no problem booting with both attached

the letters don't really make a difference
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Re: Computer Troubleshooting/Help Master Thread
« Reply #1168 on: March 11, 2015, 09:40:47 AM »
no problem booting with both attached

the letters don't really make a difference
thanks, although even though I switched the hdd to sata0 it still boots from the hdd?  The boot menu is uefi with the source being the ssd. Could the ssd still be pointing the boot to the hdd?

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Re: Computer Troubleshooting/Help Master Thread
« Reply #1169 on: March 11, 2015, 09:43:46 AM »
thanks, although even though I switched the hdd to sata0 it still boots from the hdd?  The boot menu is uefi with the source being the ssd. Could the ssd still be pointing the boot to the hdd?
The HDD was always in sata0 do you mean you switched the ssd to sata0?
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Re: Computer Troubleshooting/Help Master Thread
« Reply #1170 on: March 11, 2015, 09:50:15 AM »
The HDD was always in sata0 do you mean you switched the ssd to sata0?
yes the ssd is now sata 0
Also When I try legacy booting from the ssd I get an "Intel pxe error"
Did something go wrong with the clone?
I cloned the entire drive, not just 1 partition.
The only thing I can really try is booting without the hdd plugged in

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Re: Computer Troubleshooting/Help Master Thread
« Reply #1171 on: March 11, 2015, 09:51:49 AM »
yes the ssd is now sata 0
Also When I try legacy booting from the ssd I get an "Intel pxe error"
Did something go wrong with the clone?
I cloned the entire drive, not just 1 partition.
The only thing I can really try is booting without the hdd plugged in
You can try that to see of it works

Are you sure the ssd is compatible with your computer?
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Re: Computer Troubleshooting/Help Master Thread
« Reply #1172 on: March 11, 2015, 10:00:23 AM »
You can try that to see of it works

Are you sure the ssd is compatible with your computer?
once I boot I can access the ssd no problem

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Re: Computer Troubleshooting/Help Master Thread
« Reply #1173 on: March 11, 2015, 10:03:04 AM »
once I boot I can access the ssd no problem
How do you know where it boots from
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Re: Computer Troubleshooting/Help Master Thread
« Reply #1174 on: March 11, 2015, 10:11:15 AM »
size, the larger drive is the c. And speed is not improved at all

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Introduced back in 2005 by Intel to lift restrictions of the old MBR (Master Boot Record) and PC BIOS (Basic Input/Output System), uEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) is now a recommended platform for new 64-bit Windows 8 computers. And the reason is easy to catch – besides other unique features impossible for the traditional tandem of BIOS+MBR, only a uEFI-based platform enables to accommodate Windows OS on a partition larger than 2.2TB. Despite all uEFI advantages however, it has one quite naughty issue: A pretty standard operation with a bootable device for instance involving its connection to another SATA port results in unbootable Windows. You’ll get the same result if trying to boot from a cloned system hard disk. All these problems originate from the way uEFI+GPT bundle is organized. Microsoft provides how-to guides to tackle this type of problems, but they demand a great deal of experience from the user, involving the use of the cmd, diskpart and bcdedit tools

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Re: Computer Troubleshooting/Help Master Thread
« Reply #1175 on: March 11, 2015, 10:15:09 AM »
size, the larger drive is the c. And speed is not improved at all

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Introduced back in 2005 by Intel to lift restrictions of the old MBR (Master Boot Record) and PC BIOS (Basic Input/Output System), uEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) is now a recommended platform for new 64-bit Windows 8 computers. And the reason is easy to catch – besides other unique features impossible for the traditional tandem of BIOS+MBR, only a uEFI-based platform enables to accommodate Windows OS on a partition larger than 2.2TB. Despite all uEFI advantages however, it has one quite naughty issue: A pretty standard operation with a bootable device for instance involving its connection to another SATA port results in unbootable Windows. You’ll get the same result if trying to boot from a cloned system hard disk. All these problems originate from the way uEFI+GPT bundle is organized. Microsoft provides how-to guides to tackle this type of problems, but they demand a great deal of experience from the user, involving the use of the cmd, diskpart and bcdedit tools
Interesting but does it work in legacy
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Re: Computer Troubleshooting/Help Master Thread
« Reply #1176 on: March 11, 2015, 10:19:14 AM »
Interesting but does it work in legacy
I think not

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Re: Computer Troubleshooting/Help Master Thread
« Reply #1177 on: March 11, 2015, 10:43:33 AM »
cloning seems to have worked, yet it boots from hdd

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Re: Computer Troubleshooting/Help Master Thread
« Reply #1178 on: March 15, 2015, 09:03:09 PM »
Using basic Gateway machine about two years old, W7.  About a week ago, developed some problem between chrome and K9.  Ended up deleting Chrome, and reinstalling.  Worked for a day.  Ended up deleting Chrome and using Firefox.  Worked for a day or two.  All along, the problems were mostly freezing while online and then dead, not even three finger salute.  Now, I can't do system restore, says I need to shut antivirus, which I do, but it still doesn't work, no matter which restore point I try I get the same message.  Now, it freezes almost immediately after a hard reboot.  Ran Defrag, CCleaner and Malwarebytes.  Got blue screen of death twice.  Machine ran the "dirty" clean once on its own.  Software, hardware?  Is this what I get for buying a $300 computer?  Thanks much.

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Re: Computer Troubleshooting/Help Master Thread
« Reply #1179 on: March 15, 2015, 09:08:39 PM »
Using basic Gateway machine about two years old, W7.  About a week ago, developed some problem between chrome and K9.  Ended up deleting Chrome, and reinstalling.  Worked for a day.  Ended up deleting Chrome and using Firefox.  Worked for a day or two.  All along, the problems were mostly freezing while online and then dead, not even three finger salute.  Now, I can't do system restore, says I need to shut antivirus, which I do, but it still doesn't work, no matter which restore point I try I get the same message.  Now, it freezes almost immediately after a hard reboot.  Ran Defrag, CCleaner and Malwarebytes.  Got blue screen of death twice.  Machine ran the "dirty" clean once on its own.  Software, hardware?  Is this what I get for buying a $300 computer?  Thanks much.
From what you are saying it sounds like a virus and has nothing to do with buying a $300 computer
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