true. first thing I did was launch a disk clone maker, and its cloning C: drive as I write.

Thanks! Actually I did all the boot fix stuff with bootrec and Hirens, and Sergies, but what has fixed it just now is Macrium Reflect rescue boot, and choosing the "Fix Boot" option. Macrium seems...

My Win10 desktop has an issue, it just gets to the spinning dots on a black screen.

I tried a lot of things with Hiren's boot USB and Sergie's boot USB, but things have not worked so far.
I've...

Plugging it into the PC direct does work. I moved my desktop to the other side of my desk, thats why I have to plug it into a usb hub now.

I have a mouse a plugged into a USB hub. When I turn the computer on I have to switch the the USB hub on and off before the mouse is recognized.
I have my keyboard plugged into the same hub...

Yes. Now I'm looking at doing an sfc/ scannow, and a Dism /RestoreHealth to see if it starts to behave better.

What worked for me was to initialise the disk as GPT, and then have Macrium create a disk image. Then I restored that image to the new target disk. This meant that it maintained the paritiotns...

thanks...
Disc 3 (H:) is the new target disk. Disk 4 (I:) is the old source disk with a couple of bad sectors.
The source drive is just a little larger, so annoyingly the sector-by-sector-clone...

I looked at the Macrium Reflect boot fix feature and created rescue media.
I clicked on fix boot problems and it found my Win10 partition. But then the next step in the wizard said, "no active...

Thanks, I'll check it out.
I should say that my source SSD had a handful of bad sectors. Thats why I'm cloning. Reflect failed to clone citing Error 0 (read errors)
I did try a clone with AOMEI...

Thanks ! Is the samsung tool this one?
Samsung Magician & SSD Tools & Software Update | Samsung Semiconductor Global

Diskgenius is $70

So the mere "existence" of a EFI partition is not enough to tell the pc, "this is bootable"?
Do I need to set something in the EFI or somewhere else in the disk header that will define the disk as...

Yes, EFI was on the original source disk I needed to clone

thanks, it does have an EFI - what does ESP mean ?

Imaging would not make it bootable. In theory Cloning should clone everything including the boot sector. I am using Macrium Reflect.

I am cloning an existing SSD (my source drive) to another SSD (my target) I just bought.

I cloned partition by partition (for a good reason). How do I check if this target SSD is bootable or...

I gave the registery edit entries in your video a try, and sadly it didn't work.
Windows explorer has worked well for about 5 days, now its back to the same problem.
Despite doing this often:...

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I might schedule a SR more often. I'll look up the tutorial on that.

I had a restore point from 7 days ago. I was reluctant to try it because I'd done so much since that time. But I restored it and updated everything fine wihtout any issues, then I reinstalled the...

I logged into the Admin a/c and ran it. Same output: Access denied, Failed to stop.

With Hard Disk Sentinel, only the DOS version is free and it looks like I have to make a bootable.
Is there...

I did run that .bat file as Admin actually.

Thanks. I did a chkdsk yesterday, it was OK.
I ran the batch file in the link above, and this is what I got:
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I'll reboot and try again.

Thanks. I dont have that option for previews. I left the computer updating overnight. It remained stuck on 0%.
Never seen this before. What can I do to get this thing going ?
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My Sound card driver went all of a sudden. I could not restore it. I uninstalled it, then installed it, then rebooted. No solution. So I turned my attention to Windows update.
I tried to invoke...

Thanks! I'll give that a try.