JeffC
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I sure would like to know that, too.
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I wholeheartedly agree with the suggestion.
Re JohnnyboyGo's last method of restoring just the C: partition onto a working system, I thought about that, but worried that there might be a conflict between the system as of (for exampl…
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Okay, with this information in mind, I went looking for an earlier disk image backup and found one from November. I restored that--and it worked! I have successfully returned my laptop to its state as of a few months ago, and I then restored al…
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Are you saying that there's no way to make a disc image from a drive that's outside the computer? Can't drives be cloned from USB?
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Well, that failed, and gave me a blue screen that said my PC needs to be repaired. After the full repair failed, I tried restoring just the system partition, first by asking for system restore, and then by asking for universal restore. Now I'm g…
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Does the Universal Restore option control anything except the system partition? I am currently waiting out the full restore (my C: drive has 258 on it and it's a lengthy procedure). This time around I left Universal Restore unchecked -- no, wai…
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Good grief. Was this all a question of BIOS setting? I don't see in my BIOS a choice between BIOS/CSM/Legacy and EFI/UEFI, though under the Enable CSM was a choice to enable some kind of controller involving UEFI. Enabling that did not work.
That restore also failed. I am now attempting to restore the factory-reset install that the laptop came back with. (It was also identified as being GPT.)
Regarding the Universal Restore option, I used that because the AOMEI instruction pages said it was necessary after a hardware change. (new motherboard)
I'll try again using System Restore option.
<…Yes, I did a full disk image backup, which included the system partition, the recovery partition, one very small partition which I don't know what it is, and the C: drive. I don't know if it's MBR or GPT--the question was never presented to me--…