Recent content by AntiHypocrite

Yeah, "Wow," is a pretty honest reaction to this mess.

I eventually used Macrium Reflect to get the clone copy of Win 11, but I won't even bore you with all that happened when I tried to boot from the external drive containing the clone copy. In short, it was a disaster that we still haven't recovered from. The mint Dell M4700 in question came...

As the old M4700 is presently [employing my best German] "kaput," I'm no longer thinking about the old laptop ... or its cloned image, which I now believe is of no use. Considering that we're down to only one PC now, the new Dell 7630 laptop, I want to find a PC cloning utility that will...

The part about Mac OS was an aside. I'm still being told that what I've done for years now can be done with a PC via Macrium Reflect. I'm presently using BIOS and Macrium Reflect. I've been at this for days now, so I really don't wish to waste time arguing about semantics. Have a great evening.

Well, as you may recall, the thread started out as cloning thread and the present issue is a cloning issue. I assumed that cloning was a "storage" issue, and this is a storage forum board. I'm not sure why a Macrium Reflect discussion belongs on a Windows board? In my many years on web...

Long story short, the M4700 has an intermittent hardware issue - probably GPU related - that is getting worse and worse. At this point, I've put the machine to the side ( temporarily ) and have employed a newer Dell Inspiron 16 7630 with a Win XP VM experiment in mind. As described in Post 15...

I'd be more than happy to try a reset. How is that done?

Well, cancel that. After I used the Win 11 shut down command: I never saw video again. At this point, I've run the Dell screen/display test [Power Button + D]. The machine passes that test, which means that the display panel didn't suddenly fail. This is very good news, but, at this point...

Okay, so I downloaded Macrium Reflect Free 8 (MRF8) to one of our Macs, copied it to a USB thumb drive and pasted it into the Dell M4700 PC laptop that I'll be working with. From there, I installed MRF8, hooked up our USB HDD archive dock to the M4700 and cloned the internal SSD to the target...

I've been away from all things Windows for over a dozen years, so please go easy on me. I do remember some not so pleasant things from the old days, however, so I'm trying to inch my way back into the Windows way of doing things...

Thanks MX Nerd ~ As it's a bit older, do you think that EaseUS Disk Copy 2.3.1 will work in the Windows 11 OS environment?

Referencing the bolded bit of the quote (above), is there a way to move an entire image from one internal drive to another internal drive in Win 11? If there is, perhaps I could find a cable that will allow me to connect one of our SATA HDDs to the SATA bus inside of our Dell M4700 PC laptop...

Thank you for posting. Do you recall if either EaseUS Disk Copy or CloneZilla allowed one to clone a bootable clone image to an external USB drive (like our archive HDD)? Once again, I'd like to be able to boot from the external USB drive.

We have a project involving old utilities going all the way back to Win XP and Win 7. Before starting the project, I'd like to clone the Win 11 OS on the SSD in our old PC laptop to an archive HDD ... and, come to think of it, I'd really like to clone any of the Windows operating systems that...

Well, after reading these posts, the verdict's in: the Mrs hates Macs and I can't even get her to go near one. 😂 I can still recall spending more hours than I care to admit to - waaay back in my PC building days - working out why this driver or that driver wasn't working properly ... and...