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    I'm still not sure how Windows was confusing them...

    I'm still not sure how Windows was confusing them in the first place. Even though one was cloned from the other, DISKPART reported their Disk IDs as being different GUIDs. And now it seems that the...
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    I realize I'm kind of talking to myself here, but...

    I realize I'm kind of talking to myself here, but I just discovered that the string of numbers I see for both drives in the Registry under HKLM\DosDevices:


    44 4D 49 4F


    turns up on the web a...
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    P.S. I'm wondering if I need to run fdisk /mbr on...

    P.S. I'm wondering if I need to run fdisk /mbr on the old drive in order to reset its Disk Signature (which I gather now is only the first 4 bytes of that sequence.) But I'm worried I might...
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    Ok, new question: Where do I find the actual Disk...

    Ok, new question: Where do I find the actual Disk Signature? I see two possible places:

    1. Run DISKPART and find Disk ID, which reports a genuine GUID that looks like:...
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    Yes, that's right: I had not wiped the old drive....

    Yes, that's right: I had not wiped the old drive. In fact, not only did I not wipe it, I didn't even delete the old copies of the files it contains, i.e., the files that I'd cloned onto the new...
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    Yes, I think the problem is indeed that the old...

    Yes, I think the problem is indeed that the old and new drive both have the same Disk Signature. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\MountedDevices show the same four byte identifier (44 4d 49 4f) for both the...
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    ...and now I think I am completely off the track...

    ...and now I think I am completely off the track thinking this has anything to do with GUIDS, because if I remember correctly these HDDs are both MBR, not GPT. (I'm not in front of the computer at...
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    Honestly, I cloned the drives a couple of months...

    Honestly, I cloned the drives a couple of months ago but only now noticed the Windows Search problem. I guess I don't use Windows Search that often.


    The new drive is exactly the same capacity as...
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    Windows Search is confusing two of my HDDs -- how can I correct this?

    I recently added a drive to my computer and moved all the data from the old drive to the new drive by cloning it. Now, Windows Search is confusing the old and new drives. My setup is as follows:

    ...
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    Thanks. I think I've resolved it. I switched all...

    Thanks. I think I've resolved it. I switched all the special folders back to their default locations, and then switched them back to the location where I want them on another drive. (I temporarily...
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    FOLLOW-UP: I see that the values stored in: ...

    FOLLOW-UP: I see that the values stored in:

    HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders

    indicate the new locations of special folders after I move...
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    Moving "Special Folders" and the USERPROFILE variable

    On a laptop running Windows 10 Home I tried moving the special folder "Videos" to another location, by clicking on the folder's Location tab in Properties, and using the Move button. It appeared to...
  13. Thread: UEFI with MBR: Can I upgrade from Windows 7 to 10? by Samizdat
    Forum: Installation and Upgrade
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    UEFI with MBR: Can I upgrade from Windows 7 to 10?

    My Windows 7 Pro pc had BIOS on the motherboard, MBR on the 120GB SSD boot disk, and GPT on the 3TB HDD data disk. I was running out of room on the boot disk (and it was developing bad sectors) so I...
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