Damn, I'm so close.


Using diskpart, I wiped the new SSD with its clean command.
I powered down, disconnected all drives except the new SSD, and booted using the Windows 10 install media I...

My version of bcdboot didn't support the /f switch. Since MS says that bcdboot will use BIOS by default on a BIOS system, I simply omitted the switch. Unfortunately:
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I checked the bootmgr...

I made sure my HDD and old SDD were disconnected and booted into the Reflect rescue DVD. Only one drive was found to have a Windows installation on it. I made sure to only check "System Recovery" and...

Hey topgundcp, thanks for the detailed instructions. I had to assign S: to the System Reserved partition because R: is used by my CD/DVD-ROM drive. When I rebooted after everything was done, Windows...

OK, so I've established that my Dell recovery partition is toast and nobody knows what the 39 MB partition is. I guess don't need any Dell recovery anyway since:

I make daily image backups
I...

I can't do a diskpart format. With both SSDs connected:


DISKPART> list disk

Disk ### Status Size Free Dyn Gpt
-------- ------------- ------- ------- --- ---
...

Hi Kyhi,

Thanks for your reply. I have questions about your proposed solution; first, let's have a look at my PC's existing partitions to ensure we're on the same page.

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In Windows...

As posted above (images inline, this time):

List volume
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List disk
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Select disk 1
List partition

Reflect's "Fix Windows boot problems" didn't help.

I would love to try your method, but need confirmation of the actual bcdboot command. My new SSD is disk #1; the boot partition is partition #2...

@Bree: Reflect didn't help.

Kyhi: here's the diskpart info:
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After selecting disk 1:
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Disk 1 partition 2 is my new, larger OS partition. At this point, I'm unsure of the...

Using Macrium Reflect, I cloned my system SSD to a larger SSD, but the new SSD won't boot. (error 0xc000000e; this is obviously after powering down and disconnecting the old SSD.)

This is on an...

Needing more space on C:, I discovered three folders under C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\ containing various versions of Candy Crush Saga, totalling 600 MB.

No Candy Crush-type apps are found...

• My current Windows version is 1803 build 17134.885.

• I believe my old Win7 was Home Premium, but am not 100% sure. I upgraded to Win10 years ago.

• DISM displayed:

Version: 10.0.17134.1
...

Thanks for your suggestion; there are no exclamation marks in Device Manager. I showed hidden devices and expanded every section.

My PC has been unable to successfully update for a long time. Here's the update history:

Feature Updates (7)
Feature update to Windows 10, version 1903 Failed to install on 8/1/2019 - Oxc1900101...

If cibc.com's IP address is found, how could the fs subdomain not work? *puzzled*

I haven't had the "shadow copy storage could not grow in time" message for three weeks. Yay!

However, I have had several "The oldest shadow copy of volume C: was deleted to keep disk space usage...

For a few days, I've been occasionally getting DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN in Chrome. The most recent issue is with accessing a Web page on fs.cibc.com.


My DNS server is 192.168.1.1, my router,...

OK, I did some cleanup (4GB Norton files! Had to uninstall/reinstall) and I now have 25GB free, about 13%. We'll see if those event messages stop.

My 210 GB C: drive has 22 GB free, so I don't think it's that.

I've been getting the occasional event

The shadow copies of volume C: were deleted because the shadow copy storage could not grow in time. Consider reducing the IO load on the system or choose a...

`sudo` is not found on my DSN-325. I'll have to check whether it was installed by default or came with fun_plug 0.7.

Hi Jimbo,

limiting the NAS to SMBv1 sounds like a good idea. Unfortunately, I have lost the root user password for my DNS-325. I can't find any solution online. I'm backed into a corner.

Hey Eagle,

Sorry about the workgroup thing; I had to redo my NAS settings after a factory reset a couple of weeks ago and it kept slipping my mind. I followed your steps and DLINK-019B49 now...

Here's the smb.conf for my NAS:


[ global ]
netbios name = dlink-019B49
server string = DNS-325
veto files = /.AppleDouble/.AppleDB/.bin/.AppleDesktop/Network Trash...