Hi [USER=13694]@FreeBooter[/USER] and colleagues,
Thank you for your assistance to date. I now have a working Windows 10 installation on the new disk, and various applications have been added, with more left to do.
I'm currently working to transfer documents. photographs etc to the new disk. A significant chunk has been done, with more left to do - and I am seeing some slightly odd results.
I have:
- A new, working Win 10 install on a new disk
- A working Win 10 install on the old (failing) disk which appears to still be usable
- A large external USB HD which contains the system image I was unable to restore to the new disk
- Other folders and files on the same external USB HD, copied from the old disk, to be copied to the new.
I've tried three routes.
Running both the old (failing) and new hard disks
If I understand correctly, I should be able to run the two internal hard disks (1 and 2 above) together and copy material between the two. I tried this, booting from the new one (as far as I can tell, and supported by the lack of material on on the desktop), and it slowed the machine to a crawl. Should this have worked?
Mounting the system image as a virtual drive
When I do this I don't have access to c:\user\Jim\
This is probably fair enough, because despite the fact that all the folders and filed are mine, me on the new Win 10 install isn't the same user as me on the old disk/installation. I think (hope) I am granting permissions now, but it is working through the files and is clearly going to take a long while. (And periodically it pauses waiting for input because it can't enumerate files in a folder, so I can't even set it going and walk away.) Any suggestions of a better way to do this would be very welcome.
Copying material from the old to the new internal HDs via the external HD
This is the oddest of all.
I have successfully copied a large chunk of material (documents, pictures) from the old HD to the external HD, switched the internal HD for the new one, and copied material from the external HD to the new internal HD. This appears to have been successful.
I then copied another chunk of material (videos, music, extra stuff I found) from the old HD to the external. I switched the machine to use the new HD, expecting to be able to copy to material from the external HD to the new disk, as had worked for the previous (docs, photos) batch.
This failed because the 2nd batch of appears not to be on the external HD. Fair enough: did I not do the copy I thought I had done? It was late, did I mess it up?
No! When I re-start the machine from the old HD the 2nd batch of material is on the external HD - proving (as far as I can tell) a successful copy.
However, when I re-start the machine from the new HD, the 2nd batch of material is still not visible.
I'm baffled: I don't understand why the second batch of material is visible on the external HD when the machine is started from the old disk, but not when started from the new. The first batch of material continues to be visible whichever of the old or new disk the machine is started from. As far as I know I did not do anything differently when I coped the first and second batches of folders/files.
Again, any suggestions anyone has would be very welcome.
Thanks
Jim
