Win10 copying

I tried to get RegCool to work, but I couldn't get it to use Registry entries from the same computer. I will use Regedit because it is the program that Diane Poremsky uses and if I venture too far afield, I will lose her before I found her.

The backup feature of RegCool is really great. I will use this when things start to "heat up".

I believe if Diane was going to show up, she would have already showed up. It is up to us to figure out what files/objects it takes to get something besides HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE to show up. This is quite an old posting for her and I'm sure that the past 8 years have been productive.

What we have to figure out: Is it possible to have access to the Office Apps (primarily Outlook) thru a non original SID or do I have to migrate SIDs as well as accounts to be able to access the original Office documents? Can I get "part way there" and how much will it cost me? I am a cheap *******, but I realize that if you want to achieve something, you have to be willing to pay something, even if you end up doing most of the work.

Summarizing my efforts to date:
A. Using File Manager to copy the files. Downside: 1) I seemed to get stuck on java.exe whenever the files were near completion 2) Each "copy" seemed to take up more space. I started out with 10-15 GB, it is up to 1 TB now. The original "image" was ~450 GB. It would be great to type Copy /EXCLUDE java.exe.
B. Using Robocopy in the Powershell to copy files. We already figure out that Robocopy /MIR causes more harm than good, and we tried using it without /MIR, but it got caught up in the same place Robocopy /MIR did - it couldn't make a new file from the original one if the original one did not "belong" to the new group. I also noticed that "user"\AppData was copied as "user"\AppData\AppData\AppData\AppData\AppData\AppData\AppData... (you get the drift). It doesn't have to be "user"\AppData. It is really strange fore me to be without the standard tools that I had cobbled together over the past 10 years. An example is "du" and "df". I would like to point to what else beside "user"/AppData has a problem, but I don't want to "invent" a solution. There are certain things an OS has to provide. ROBOCOPY seems to "almost work". I need for it to fully work.

Fortunately, the original "mazarick" SID is located in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE. Using the same steps as I had previously used (and looking at the original registry):


This compares to (when SOFTWARE is selected from my new PC). Makes sense, because I am logged in as mazar.


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I am running (thru File Manager) a search for *.DAT files in the original partition (now drive G:). I will shut this down so that I can try some addition things unrelated to restoring my files (which I want to do, but there are other things happening). The search took a very long time and has a lot of results which I have to go thru.

It does not boot after this message into Win10 Home (my original image). I will go down the path of doing exactly what it says, starting with "for more information about this issue and a possible fix, go to https://windows.com/stopcodes". When I get there, it says "Troubleshooting Blue Screen Errors"







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I wanted to give pictures of this file. Unfortunately, I have a "size restriction" the only allows me to upload 5 files.

I tried "safe mode" (it was disabled before). It wasn't until I figured out on page 6 a way out of safe mode. That means I have to be really careful. You can't use the internet while in Safe Mode.

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I wanted to provide what my son wrote me about 10 days ago. If only it were this easy...

From: Mickey Mazarick
To: Mike Mazarick
Date: 06/01/2020 18:00
Subject: Re: I have the wrong approach to the problem...

To begin with I would install windows on a separate drive.. If you have a solid state drive, that should be your OS drive.
After that , all your stuff from my documents desktop etc is in the Users folder. Just add your new user to that folder with "full control". It will spider all subfolders after you hit apply on the top level folder so you are set after that. So if your extra drive is e: find *E:\Users* and right click on that.

Use real copies of windows too and let it do a full update before doing
this.

On Sun, May 31, 2020 at 6:16 PM <mike.mazarick@virtudatacenter.com> wrote:

> Although I manually wanted to copy permissions or SID info, I wanted to
> get your best recommendation on what to do next.
>
> The end goal is to create an environment like I had before.
>
> I had Documents, Desktop, Pictures, Downloads and MS Office (Word,
> Powerpoint, Outlook, Visio) from the CDs that had it on there.
>
> I currently have everything except MS Office(Documents, Desktop, Pictures,
> Downloads). I have discovered how much I depend on MS Office to work
> correctly.
>
> What is your best recommendation on getting back to where I once was
> (about a month ago)? Your recommendation means a lot to me, and I will
> likely follow the steps.
>
> I have a system image that I took on March 27. If restore worked 100%, I would have copied it long ago. I have been >trying to copy this image for about a month (450 GB), and I keep running into permission problems. The breakthru that I >had was renaming the system to mazarick-newPC like it was. I don't need to copy the SID/permissions, but I am following >it because it is the most straightforward thing to do. I'm discovering that it isn't as straightforward as originally thought.
>
> Mike
>