Sorry for the bump. I didn't want to start a new thread. In my BIOS there are two options where I can change IDE to AHCI. One of them is a RAID setting and the other is, damn, I forget, integrated...

That's okay, I have been away from my brain the past several years. Heh. I used to do what all of you here do as a support team on some private forums and was even a Microsoft Guide(As far as I know...

Yea, I have a rescue USB and a rescue DVD that I ended up using when the Macrium boot option didn't work. Okay, I just needed to know if the XML file on C was actually needed. It placed it with the...

Thank you. I am pretty sure, but maybe not, that I just backed up the partition last time but this would appear to be a better option.

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Just one more thing. *Columbo...

I have an issue. I added Macrium to my boot menu so I could select that or my operating system. Any time I selected it my system would reboot and I would get that black screen with all of the text on...

"The edgeupdate service failed to start due to the following error: The system cannot find the file specified."

Keeps giving me a BSOD at least once a day and I can't find anything specific that...

Thanks for the replies everyone and for the software suggestions I had never heard of before and I have used pretty much all of it. I am turning in now.

Nice, thank you for the tips, and man, that Ghost 2003 floppy I had got some serious use. I used to build rigs for a charity and used Ghost to slap Win 98 on around 700 systems. We created a custom...

I grabbed it and am going to image some drives tomorrow. I used to use Norton Ghost and Acronis but I have been out of the tech scene for some years now. Hiren's was handy also and Winternals.

Yea, I had a UPS up until around two years ago. Should invest in another.

Yea, I used to be on top of all of that. It's funny. Around two years ago I backed up a 1TB drive because I felt the original was getting a little old. A week later both drives were dead and I...

Yea, was going to do that scan after running HD Tune Pro. I'm actually a technician and PC hobbyist and have been since around 1985 or so but I have cognitive issues now and I sometimes get confused...

So my power went out suddenly the other night and my system was acting sluggish, freezing and giving me a lovely BSOD at least 4 times a day since.

I ended up doing a chkdsk on boot, once I was...