Recent content by martij7au

I've only just started, working on setting up my schedule with incrementals - based on your previous post. I'm using the free 30 days on MR right now, but will assuredly buy it, since it seems to work very well so far.

Im using macrium for backups, and I bought a 4TB hard drive - will let me store a few backups on it. That should be a good start anyway.

bummer. Oh well, live and learn. Thanks for the help. I at least have a rudimentary backup system in place now for the next time I lose a drive.

The dock was not successful. It did not recognize the drive at all. The dock did work with a new HDD i bought for backup purposes though. Seems like maybe my drive is dead for good?

So, an HDD or an SSD connected via something like the dock you linked before?

thank you! very helpful. When you say USB drive - are you talking like an external hard drive that connects via USB? or like a flash drive? I'm thinking an external USB hard drive would be cheaper and have more storage. I think your setup sounds quite reliable but I would not need this level...

When you say backups, what exactly do you (and others) typically mean? Obviously there are ways to backup certain files, but is there a way to backup an entire image of the hard drive? Which is typical? My thought would be that if I only really need to retain certain important files, I could...

Yeah - I hear you. I don't keep anything super important on there that I can't live without, but having a backup would have sure been handy.

Ok - sounds good. I ordered a dock. I'll post a reply/update once I try that method. Thanks!

I've heard people talk about Power cycling - is that a thing that might help? I think I'm going to buy a SATA USB adapter, but saw that as an option, and was curious if that was possible/likely to help.

It wouldn't boot on my PC if it was plugged in at all, I think thats why he suggested a second PC (code A2 on the Mobo)

I've seen SATA-to-USB cables - any chance that would work? I'm going to try connecting it to another PC, but was curious if this might be another option.

I came back from a week vacation to boot up my computer, but it would hang on the BIOS splash screen, and I could not input any commands to enter BIOS or anything. The motherboard code was A2. Tried a lot of things which didn't work, but ultimately when I unplugged power and SATA cable from my...

Programs from around 6/22 - App Installer (Microsoft) and "Xbox Console Companion." As far as I know these were automatically downloaded by Windows. Event viewer for events from "WindowsUpdateClient" show some Microsoft Defender updates, and the same "app Installer" and "XboxApp." Nothing...

It happened again overnight (started having low memory logs around 6AM) found my computer in a BSOD around lunch... While using it, I did not notice any significant increased. I reviewed and noticed the paged pool item using the most memory by far (Tag_1) has a name "None". I can't figure out...