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So my hard drive is getting very wonky, though still working, and I bought a new one. The laptop has Win 10; it originally came with Win 8 but I got the upgrade when it first came out. I've kept it updated except for the very newest one.
Today I set up a recovery disk to use on the new hard drive. 16 Gig Thumb drive. Got to the point of "copying files" and it was taking forever. So I went about my business and let it hum. I did check the box about copying system files.
When I came back, and hit a key to waken the screen (the computer wasn't in sleep, just the screen) I see a message from Recovery Disk saying "Cancelling" and then it goes away.
So do I or do I not have a complete recovery disk. Here's what the E drive says is on it. It has 5.16 GB of data on it.
Folder EFI date modified 5/31/2020 at 11:30 (that's when I started)
Folder Sources date modified the same
file: reagent.xml 8/25/19 XML Document.
The EFI folder has two folders in it
Boot (same date and time) with a file in it called bootx64.efi, dated 3/10/20 size 1492 KB
Microsoft (same date and time.
Microsoft has 2 folders
Boot (again) today same time
Recovery same time
Boot in this subfolder has 131 files, 40 folders, 24.5 MB --on disk 25.0 MB
Recovery is empty
The "sources" folder has 4 files, 5.11 GB total. Two are 1 kb txt and html files. One is called Reconstruct WIM at 3,899,640 KB (I feel like I'm reporting COVID cases here) and the other Reconstruct WIM2 at 929,460
SO based on the file sizes is this an incomplete recovery disk? If so, should I just try again? If it won't copy over a complete recovery disk, how can I get all of Windows over to the new hard drive. I won't be able to just hook the two up because when the new is in, the old is out and unconnected. Is there a way to get your windows onto a new hard drive without using a recovery disk? This computer IS registered with Microsoft and does not have bitlocker turned on.
Happy to provide more info. I'd do screen shots but because I have two monitors they come out itty bitty.
Thanks Hope I get an answer before the current hard drive just gives up the ghost. (I keep getting messages from Dell Assist that there is a hardware problem with the hard drive and it does hang a lot. The computer is WAY out of warranty.)
(I'm not worried about my data. It is all safely in OneDrive)
Thanks, and stay healthy
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Today I set up a recovery disk to use on the new hard drive. 16 Gig Thumb drive. Got to the point of "copying files" and it was taking forever. So I went about my business and let it hum. I did check the box about copying system files.
When I came back, and hit a key to waken the screen (the computer wasn't in sleep, just the screen) I see a message from Recovery Disk saying "Cancelling" and then it goes away.
So do I or do I not have a complete recovery disk. Here's what the E drive says is on it. It has 5.16 GB of data on it.
Folder EFI date modified 5/31/2020 at 11:30 (that's when I started)
Folder Sources date modified the same
file: reagent.xml 8/25/19 XML Document.
The EFI folder has two folders in it
Boot (same date and time) with a file in it called bootx64.efi, dated 3/10/20 size 1492 KB
Microsoft (same date and time.
Microsoft has 2 folders
Boot (again) today same time
Recovery same time
Boot in this subfolder has 131 files, 40 folders, 24.5 MB --on disk 25.0 MB
Recovery is empty
The "sources" folder has 4 files, 5.11 GB total. Two are 1 kb txt and html files. One is called Reconstruct WIM at 3,899,640 KB (I feel like I'm reporting COVID cases here) and the other Reconstruct WIM2 at 929,460
SO based on the file sizes is this an incomplete recovery disk? If so, should I just try again? If it won't copy over a complete recovery disk, how can I get all of Windows over to the new hard drive. I won't be able to just hook the two up because when the new is in, the old is out and unconnected. Is there a way to get your windows onto a new hard drive without using a recovery disk? This computer IS registered with Microsoft and does not have bitlocker turned on.
Happy to provide more info. I'd do screen shots but because I have two monitors they come out itty bitty.
Thanks Hope I get an answer before the current hard drive just gives up the ghost. (I keep getting messages from Dell Assist that there is a hardware problem with the hard drive and it does hang a lot. The computer is WAY out of warranty.)
(I'm not worried about my data. It is all safely in OneDrive)
Thanks, and stay healthy
Continue reading...