{"id":4637,"date":"2017-12-31T16:52:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-31T22:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ramblindan.org\/?p=4637"},"modified":"2018-01-04T10:20:44","modified_gmt":"2018-01-04T16:20:44","slug":"driveing-me-crazy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/?p=4637","title":{"rendered":"DRIVEing Me Crazy"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>My main computer has a strange malady. It\u2019s running Windows 10 OS. It\u2019s an old machine with an Asus M4A78T-E mother board. I just installed the newest BIOS for it – dated 2012\/1\/31, from five years ago. It was one of my attempts to fix my system problem. Making sure everything is the latest edition.<\/p>\n

I intended to update the C:<\/strong> drive to one terabyte from its present 500GB. My plan was to trade out the 350 GB D:<\/strong> drive with the one TB drive then do a image copy of C:<\/strong> to D:<\/strong> Then make the new D:<\/strong> drive the C:<\/strong> system drive. I almost got that far then discovered a boot problem. Can\u2019t do the image copy to D:<\/p>\n

For some reason, rather than the C:<\/strong> drive, I must set the boot disk to the D<\/b>:<\/strong> drive in the Asus MB System Boot ROM<\/strong> to the old 350 GB drive to get the computer to boot. Not just any D<\/b>:<\/strong> drive. Only the current D<\/b>:<\/strong> drive. All the disk investigation software shows me that the 500GB C:<\/strong> drive contains the system files. The old 350 GB D drive must have some magic boot sauce in it. I can\u2019t find any though.<\/p>\n

I am afraid to do anything too drastic as I don\u2019t want to lose all the software installed on the C:<\/strong> drive.<\/p>\n

I eventually did find the secret path to getting to a recovery screen in WIN10, but the only option was to go back to WIN 7!! Waaatttt! That\u2019s nuts.<\/p>\n

The present D: <\/strong>drive may have been the original boot drive (C:<\/strong>) but has been D:<\/strong> for nearly a decade. The computer started life with Vista, Then WIN 7, then WIN 10. Somewhere along the line, the MB boot and the drive designations have gotten messed up. I swapped cables, I swapped everything. Flashed a new Boot ROM. Nothing makes it work correctly.<\/p>\n

The computer has no ability to boot from a USB (WIN 10 rescue) thumb drive. WIN 10 rescue disk needs 8 G so I can\u2019t use a 1.4 GB floppy or even a 4.4 GB DVD. There is a super secrete CTL-F3, press on boot, rescue\u2026 but I am not interested in regressing all the way back to WIN 7. Half my new software will probably not run in Win 7.<\/p>\n

If I didn\u2019t know better, I would think it was all a planned obsolescence\u2026<\/p>\n

I am back to where I started. Better to have a working system than a total messy loss\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My main computer has a strange malady. It\u2019s running Windows 10 OS. It\u2019s an old machine with an Asus M4A78T-E mother board. I just installed the newest BIOS for it – dated 2012\/1\/31, from five years ago. It was one of my attempts to fix my system problem. Making sure everything is the latest edition. I intended to update the C: drive to one terabyte from its present 500GB. My plan was to trade out...<\/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":[28,96],"class_list":["post-4637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computersoftware","tag-computer","tag-sofware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4637","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=4637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}