Thank you, simrick,

I am pleased to report that the image was verified in slightly over 19 minutes.

I'm trying to sort out how to 'shrink' my C: drive. The SSD is 128 GB. My original 10,000 RPM...

After I posted the above, as I was shutting down, I discovered this message:

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I do have a A030DFBBE68BA17E-00-00.mring file in the folder I specified and the program said it was verified....

I just completed a verified Reflect backup of my Win7/Pro x64 system disk (OS & Program files.) It worked fine. The Toshiba 2TB drive that Fry's sold me last month started making noises like a car...

Thank you for the confirmation.

I will put together a service ticket with Macrium next.

Thank you, simrick!

I ran chkdsk without parameters and it ran just fine, just as you predicted. See below for the elevated command prompt details. Unless I missed something, evidently the...

Thank you, simrick, for your reply.

I'm getting tired, but I think I went through this process earlier as a result of a bit of research and saved this image. (This is in Win7 of course.)

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I 'reply with quote' because I have information that might be relevant to the 'file system' causing a problem.

Based on an entry on the Macrium Reflect forum, I tried running chkdsk at an elevated...

I don't want to let a "20% off the regular price" offer from Macrium on Macrium Reflect v6 Home Edition expire before I ask if it is worth the $56 they are asking.

Early in this thread I tried...

Issue resolved. I had the 'dongle' for my HP wireless mouse in a 10-in-1 USB port hub close to the mouse pad. It worked there before the upgrade. I don't want to trouble shoot it now, but I could not...

Bless you, you are so patient

So the time is spent after I update? It shut down very quickly while i was writing the last post.

I did it. Will the process run unattended and unprompted while I finish fixing my dinner (now cooking) and eat it, or do I need to check it regularly?

I got the menus and the tab key would not take me to the icon at the lower left that I used earlier to shut down. The Power menu offers a shut down, but with updates...not today, right?

Escape...

When I tried that it asked me to login, so I did. Am I in deeper? The space bar does nothing now.

Here is one more irritation. I managed to boot to Win 10 and my HP wireless mouse has no cursor. I don't want to sort it out, I just want to shut Win 10 back down without a mouse.

Is it...

I think I will take a 'break' for a few days before I undertake the customization and installation of applications on this system.

Don't 'groan' but I think I will shut down and reinstall the...

I went and tried and managed to enter the key, and followed the next steps and Windows is Activated.

I believe that was our stated goal for today.

Should I "Mark as Solved" as this goal is...

I hate to pick nits but I have a "product ID #" and an "installed key"

Is "activate on the web" an option in this menu?

How many steps to a manual activation?

Left clicking the desktop does nothing. Left clicking the 'icon' I describe restores the tiles...

I can't send images right now because this machine is foreign, as is its 'photoshop' and it would take too much time....

It did, but now it is a long box-icon instead. Did I minimize it somehow? It says 'search the web and windows'

I keep losing full display of the thread and if I display something like your image...

Now it is a long icon or box that reads "search the web and Windows"

Clicking on the desktop opens a drop down menu starting with View, Sort By...

I don't want to hang things at this point, so...

It is a thing like the Cortana box at the bottom, I think. Is it a needed part of setup to finish up?

It is a set of 6 blue tiles, Apps, Settings, Documents, Photos, Music, and Web and has a search box with the instructions to start typing to search for...