I believe in backing up my systems. I have an HP 580T from 2011 that has served me well. It's only purpose is to check email and browsing for research.
Lately, the system has been acting a bit peculiar, and I suspected that the hard drive was the problem. But before my replacement drive arrived (Samsung 860 EVO SSD) arrived, the drive refused to boot.
Upon further examination, I found that the existing drive was mechanically fine, but that its boot files had become corrupted. So my plan was to reinstall Windows 10 and then restore my backup from an external USB drive. This is necessary for two reasons:
1. All of my files and applications are on my backup.
2. When purchased, the system was licensed with Windows 7. But after a scan and thumbs up from Microsoft, I chose to do the free Windows 10 upgrade. THIS is the bigger reason to restore the backup as it is where my license is located. As it stands now, I have a "trial" version running.
As I said previously, with the trial version installed, I expected to restore my licensed copy from the backup. The newly installed Windows 10 system, sees the drive and it's label ("Recovery") on the desktop, it does not see the directory tree. Furthermore, when I enter into the recovery utilities and select "restore from image", the utility does not see the drive. But when I exit out, it is there. Additionally, the complete file structure is 100% there when plugged into my MacBook.
There is an issue with Windows 10 where created folders are read only, and when you try to remove that attribute, it goes through the motions but the changes don't take. Could this possibly be that cause of my problem?
I am open to suggestions.
Thank you.
Dom
Lately, the system has been acting a bit peculiar, and I suspected that the hard drive was the problem. But before my replacement drive arrived (Samsung 860 EVO SSD) arrived, the drive refused to boot.
Upon further examination, I found that the existing drive was mechanically fine, but that its boot files had become corrupted. So my plan was to reinstall Windows 10 and then restore my backup from an external USB drive. This is necessary for two reasons:
1. All of my files and applications are on my backup.
2. When purchased, the system was licensed with Windows 7. But after a scan and thumbs up from Microsoft, I chose to do the free Windows 10 upgrade. THIS is the bigger reason to restore the backup as it is where my license is located. As it stands now, I have a "trial" version running.
As I said previously, with the trial version installed, I expected to restore my licensed copy from the backup. The newly installed Windows 10 system, sees the drive and it's label ("Recovery") on the desktop, it does not see the directory tree. Furthermore, when I enter into the recovery utilities and select "restore from image", the utility does not see the drive. But when I exit out, it is there. Additionally, the complete file structure is 100% there when plugged into my MacBook.
There is an issue with Windows 10 where created folders are read only, and when you try to remove that attribute, it goes through the motions but the changes don't take. Could this possibly be that cause of my problem?
I am open to suggestions.
Thank you.
Dom