From: wolverine01@charter.net   
      
   On 11/24/2025 6:52 PM, sticks wrote:   
   > On 11/24/2025 6:36 PM, Paul wrote:   
   >   
   >> By all means, try another drive. Just don't clone it on   
   >> that machine, OK ? Take the two disks to a machine that is   
   >> working, and do your cloning there. You may need to run a   
   >> CHKDSK using the machine that works well, before setting   
   >> up to do a clone. If there is a CRC error during cloning, most   
   >> cloning programs stop if that happens. The attempt to clone,   
   >> might even be a kind of test.   
   >   
   > When I did finally get windows reinstalled on it, I did immediately take   
   > an image of it.  My first choice of what to do is to go to my desktop in   
   > the house that has a spinner I can temporarily remove.  I'll hook up the   
   > laptop drive and just restore that image to it and then see if the   
   > garage machine will boot on it.   
   >   
   > If that one seems bad, I do have an image of when I first got it all set   
   > up again about a year ago.  I could try that one next, but I'll try the   
   > one from a few days ago with a fresh windows 10 install first.   
      
   Just to give feedback on the whole thing, I'll explain the end result.   
      
   I did put the newer drive (900 hours) on it and after struggling for a   
   few days, decided to just do a fresh install.  Even that gave me   
   problems, and only after disabling video card drivers and a bunch of   
   other crap did I finally get it to finish a new install.  Almost   
   immediately that was giving me different stopcodes and bugchecks and   
   unexpected reboots.  So I decided it most likely was time to throw in   
   the towel on this 15 year old hardware and get a new box.   
      
   I'm using that new system now, and am glad I did it.  I wasted over a   
   whole week screwing around with it.  Though I do enjoy fixing things and   
   learning about this stuff, it is getting less appealing to me than it   
   used to be.  I just have far more important things to do than try and   
   save a few bucks on old hardware.   
      
   sticks   
      
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