Recent content by srayhan6

@USAFRet thank you so much! I was able to follow your instructions and get the hard drive swapped out....mann the last 3 days were very excrutiatingly painful. your advise on how to clone the drive beats 99% of the bull$**t youtube videos I watched over the course of this entire ordeal. Much...

Alright, I was able to reinstall the OS and used dell's onboard software to restore the files on the 3 partitions that were on the hard drive. Can anyone tell me how I can upgrade the HDD on this laptop to the WD Blue SSD that I bought in Best Buy?

......crying to my hearts content at this time....water under the bridge

I really would prefer to be able to have it go back in time and start working like it was....since this is my boss's laptop....I do see the data there, just can't figure out why the windows installation is not being recognized. There is a Optane Raid drive installed I noticed in the...

I would really prefer to try to recover the OS on this hdd if possible.... I have tried the following troubleshooting thus far: I launched the Command Prompt from the "Advanced Options" screen Launched the DISKPART tool Removed all the drive letters assigned to the 6 volumes Then I assigned...

is there anyway to see what are the drive letter assignments windows is looking for?

my thoughts is that once I took out the hard drive and connected it to another computer via USB something about the volume letter assignments got screwed up

Yes, I installed the original HDD back into the laptop and I get the "Automatic Repair couldn't repair your PC" screen and get propted to either enter "Advanced options" or "Shut Down"

Windows does not load.....I can't get past the Advanced repair options screen

I only have one hard drive in the laptop with 7 volumes in the following order: Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Volume 0 C OS NTFS Volume 1 D New Volume NTFS Volume 2 E New Volume NTFS Volume 3 ESP FAT32 Volume 4 F WINRETOOLS NTFS Volume 5 G Image NTFS Volume 6 H DELLSUPPORT NTFS

The screen I get now when I try to load is as follows: Automatic Repair couldn't repair you PC. Press "Advanced options" to try other options to repair your PC or "Shut down" to turn off your PC. Log file: C:\WINDOWS\System32\Logfiles\Srt\SrtTrail.txt

the source drive has windows 11 installed on it my guess is that it is GPT.......appologies as I have limited knowledge in MBR vs. GPT

So I got an error from Macrium that there was an MBR present and could not clone and the cloning process stopped on its own

I have a Dell Inspiron laptop the hard drive for which is a 1TB 5400 rpm HDD, I wanted to upgrade it to a 1 TB SSD. Instead of using Macrium Reflect to clone the drive while it was still installed on the laptop and running windows, I decided to take it out of the laptop and connect a...

Here is a quick update. So I decided that I would just forget about the data on the hard drive and just try a fresh install. -So I went into the System Recovery by Pressing "F11" during start up. -Then I selected "Load Drivers" (since I had to choose between an optical drive and the HDD, I...