Recent content by TurtleInTheSky

Well, that's what I kind of thought so thanks but I had to confirm and ask. I'll try turning off SMB1

After much pain, I got file sharing between my home Win 11 Home 23H2 and Pro 23H2 but I had to set the public network and all networks on like: My worry it that seems like I'm sharing to the entire world. Is this right? Is this in no way accessible outside my little 2 home computers behind a...

Ok. I did all that but what stands out is the cloned disk testing with SeaTools reports: Short Self Test Passed Long Generic Test Aborted Long Self Test Aborted Summary: I can't tell if this disk is ok. BTW, if you don't have time for this, that's fine. I'm learning here, not recovering...

OMG, you read all that. Thanks! :-) No, all one computer with the usual SSD for Windows and a bunch of hard drives. My approach is to get cheap ($5/TB now, lol) drives from a tech recycling non-profit here (FreeGeek) and have lots of copies. And they've all worked fine for many years. Yes, I...

I did try that and, kind of not knowing what I was doing, it created the current problem I'm trying to fix (not this installation that won't boot question). Sorry, lots of details.... Skip it if you want, I'll figure it out in time. It found 3 installations on my 6 drives and boom, created...

Thanks Denis. That makes a lot of sense. So a tool like Easy Recovery Essentials for Windows might be a good choice? I can try it when I get some more flash drives.

Thank you zbook. Working on it. I had to order more USB flash drives... Seems you need a lot of these...

When I attempted to repair an W11 home installation that's not booting by performing a Windows 11 custom installation, I see

Since Macrium sales doesn't accept emails like mine from lowly gmail accounts... lol I guess I try here... The free trial says "Removable media imaging and cloning" but it's not the same as a paid version it seems which says "Bare metal restore to dissimilar hardware with ReDeploy". What...

I see lots of cloning programs and in videos, people always remove the source hardware before booting into the clone. i.e. Video demonstrates Samsung Data Migration (now part of the Samsung Magician app), DiskGenius, Clonezilla Live, and the Linux DD command. Why is that? Simply point to...

Thanks jimbo. I' think I've figured out the bcd parts to point to and start available installations. But my clone of the "main" ssd boot drive (all partitions) won't boot. It hangs with a black screen, never see the windows logo, desktop or anything. Boot log at the end shows...

I don't really know what a virtual disk is... Along with a test environment, I was also trying to prove I can backup and restore images of the windows installation. So far... my backups don't restore like I thought. So, I have to understand all this much better.

Installed Disk Genius for the proper volume path. Ok. It's time for bed but I was seeing the options to boot the hard drive, tried it but it didn't start. Black screens and a mouse pointer with the busy/spinning circle for 15 minutes. I'll look more later. Of course, I can boot the SSD (running...

Well, now, bcdedit /enum is showing the on the hard drive but it's booting the SSD. The bcdboot command didn't seem to work but perhaps \Device\HarddiskVolume3 doesn't refer to the hard drive's ESP. There wasn't an error. How is "Volume6" defined? I doesn't seem to be the drive number from Disk...

So I used: bcdboot G:\Windows /s \Device\HarddiskVolume3 "3" because that's the drive number in Disk Management but I see above Volume1 seems to refer to the NVME SSD which Disk Management is calling drive number 5 actually. And I can't seem to assign a drive letter to the ESP on the hard...