cclarry
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My Win 10 Fiasco
On Sunday my C Drive took a crap. Wouldn't boot. Tried repairing it with the Win 10 install, but wouldn't work. Now I'm dreading the SEVERAL DAYS of reinstalling programs...So I pulled my C Drive, which is a 128 GB SSD, out, and put my new 1 TB empty drive in and did a fresh install of Win 10. Once that was up and running I installed my C Drive into my docking cradle and checked it. Everything was still there, but somehow the Boot Sector had been wiped...so I backed up all my C Drive info and then wiped the drive, did a fresh install of Win 10, then restored my backup and everything is kosher again! Moral of the story? ALWAYS back up...at least once a week... 
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Re: My Win 10 Fiasco
2016/08/24 08:47:00
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What you went through is everybody's nightmare.....
I have an SSD that's about 3 years old and not knowing how long it's going to hold up, does concern me. Once a month I do have Acronis doing a backup, but still, I dread this happening.
Glad to hear you're up an running (pretty quickly too). :)
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cclarry
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Re: My Win 10 Fiasco
2016/08/24 08:58:37
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Yep...I was ready to cry because I had NOT backed up....
I got REALLY lucky in that the C Drive was intact, and it
was only the boot sector that had been hit...
I've learned my lesson!
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bigcatt
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Re: My Win 10 Fiasco
2016/08/24 10:20:42
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Glad you recovered it all, but sorry you had to go through all that! I did a planned clean install of Win 10 and that was bad enough.
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Re: My Win 10 Fiasco
2016/08/24 10:30:19
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cclarry
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Re: My Win 10 Fiasco
2016/08/24 10:51:48
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BassDaddy
Was your SSD shot?
No...it was perfectly fine...just had to "redo" it.... The MBR got wasted...how I have no idea...I just "rebulit" it with the Win 10 Install and then restored it...
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BobF
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Re: My Win 10 Fiasco
2016/08/24 12:43:38
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Glad you got it all back Larry, but I would never be able to trust that SSD again if it happened to me.
bitflipper's ordeal pushed to get my backup house in order. I run weekly full backups of EVERYTHING with nightly differentials in between. All to external drives so I can take them with me in a lockbox.
I also have a nightly job that backs up project data to a different external drive for a 3rd copy.
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cclarry
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Re: My Win 10 Fiasco
2016/08/24 12:48:26
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I don't think it was the SSD Bob. I had recently ran an older installer...and I think
that might have done the damage...because everything is working perfectly fine
after the wipe and restore...
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Re: My Win 10 Fiasco
2016/08/24 13:17:20
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☄ Helpfulby cclarry 2016/08/24 13:41:26
bring back floppy disks!
:)
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Re: My Win 10 Fiasco
2016/08/24 19:50:05
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JohnKenn
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Re: My Win 10 Fiasco
2016/08/24 22:12:15
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Sorry about the trouble Larry.
Had a wipe out of the HD years ago that took 2 weeks to recover from. Dell went down, hard drive failure. Under warranty. Dell came out, replaced the hard drive, reinstalled to factory specs. Big smile from the rep. We are fixed!!
Then the nightmare of reauthorizations, rebuilding everything from ground zero.
Maybe missing some of the fine print here, but promised to Allah that this would never happen again. Rock solid security has been a complete clone of the hard drive to an external drive. I use Acronis, but other freebies exist that work as well.
I keep a hard disc of my computers stashed away in a closet. Drag them out and reclone complete if some major upgrade. Has been a flawless approach that has bailed me out many times. Nothing the hard disc can fail that can't be fixed. Maybe the only flaw is the clone takes you back to the last clone. I don't do incrementals and maybe should.
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Re: My Win 10 Fiasco
2016/08/24 22:38:55
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Happy you got it straightened out so quickly, Larry. We're all living on the edge.
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cclarry
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Re: My Win 10 Fiasco
2016/08/25 05:13:10
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