{"id":3949,"date":"2015-09-14T21:37:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-15T03:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ramblindan.org\/?p=3949"},"modified":"2015-09-15T06:37:36","modified_gmt":"2015-09-15T12:37:36","slug":"davids-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/?p=3949","title":{"rendered":"David\u2019s Song"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Shadow<\/a><\/p>\n

“I walked through the valley of the shadow of WIN 10 OS death, but I felt no evil: for my\u00a0help files are\u00a0with me and my rod (USB boot stick) and a\u00a0staff of support (help) writers, comfort me.”<\/em><\/h5>\n

I wish it really was as easy as that sounds. I almost made a fatal error doing an update to my new WIN 10 install on my \u201coffice\u201d computer.<\/p>\n

I have been hearing a low grinding noise when doing file access on my \u201coffice\u201d box. I thought it was my C:\/\u00a0hard drive doing a very hard grinding sector seek. For sure I thought I was going to get the fatal C:\/ boot disk crash. The drive is \u00a0somewhere between 7 and 10 years old.<\/p>\n

I loaded a drive backup and partitioning program named Aomei<\/a>. That software did a good job of copying the C:\/ hard drive to another drive. The problem was getting the new drive to become the boot drive.<\/p>\n

I am not getting into all the details but what I discovered is that WIN 10 is sort of temporarily installed over WIN 7. There is the ability to revert back to WIN 7 for 30 days after the upgrade. When trying to boot the new drive, it kept reporting itself as a WIN 7 OS with messed up boot files.<\/p>\n

One of the solutions recommended is to boot from the install disk and repair the system. The problem is that my WIN 10 does not have a boot or a repair disk. It was downloaded off the Microsoft web site.<\/p>\n

With booting my \u201coffice\u201d computer \u00a0now totally out of the picture, there was no way I could make a boot disk off the non-functional computer. Then I remembered, I have an operating WIN 10 install on my little netbook \u201cRover\u201d. Sure enough, there is a program in WIN 10 to create a start disk or USB drive.<\/p>\n

But Microsoft has disabled the ability of this app to make a real boot disk with enough system files so I could do drive letter renaming. What it did let me do is make a 256 bit boot file on a USB stick, that only permitted me to re-boot the existing drive.<\/p>\n

The shadow of death was creeping over the old computer and I thought I lost everything. I discovered I could recover the original C:\/ drive disk, but would not be able to swap it out with the copy I made.<\/p>\n

I hope the block is lifted on creating the system boot disk after the 30 day trial so I can make the drive swap. My fear was if I delete the old C:\/ name and rename the new disk as C:\/ , and then if it doesn\u2019t boot, I would be deeper in the computer grave. I need a full OS on the bootable rescue disk or USB stick.<\/p>\n

I discovered my old C:\/ drive is not as bad as I thought. I could use more space and a faster disk, but it was not the device making the groaning sector noise. What was happening is that while accessing the hard drive, The A:\/ floppy drive (with no disk in it) was doing its own random seeks when the hard drive was seeking. \u00a0Floppy drives make a lot of noise when racking their read\/write\u00a0head. The\u00a0A:\/\u00a0drive is located directly under the C:\/ drive.<\/p>\n

I have since disabled the A:\/ drive in the bios and the noise is gone. I very seldom use the floppy so it is no issue to have it disabled. I can just reset the bios if I need it someday.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s been a very hard day and many new lessons learned. I am thankful for having at least a few computer hardware skills.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“I walked through the valley of the shadow of WIN 10 OS death, but I felt no evil: for my\u00a0help files are\u00a0with me and my rod (USB boot stick) and a\u00a0staff of support (help) writers, comfort me.” I wish it really was as easy as that sounds. I almost made a fatal error doing an update to my new WIN 10 install on my \u201coffice\u201d computer. I have been hearing a low grinding noise when...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[28],"class_list":["post-3949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computersoftware","tag-computer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}