I recently purchased an SSD to go into my computer. When it arrived, I moved the majority of the files in my steam games folder onto another hard drive, on another computer, because I had more space used on my hard drive than was available on the SSD, and I wanted to copy my HDD over.
After that, I put the hard drive back into my computer, and I had tons of problems. Many shortcuts (not just game shortcuts, I was expecting those not to work) were not working, such as file explorer, chrome, and a few other applications that I had not tampered with when moving the games. I also couldn't search with the start menu.
Many of these were fixable by simply going into Windows Explorer, finding the file, and making a new shortcut, but some, like the start menu search, weren't. I looked up everything, and couldn't find a solution to work.
However, this isn't the main problem I've been having. I decided to just forget about the HDD. What I wanted to do was copy the HDD to the SSD, and then restore Windows to its original factory setting. I was able to copy everything with no problem. When I booted with the SSD, everything was as it should be.
I went to settings and went through the options to restore the computer, deleting all files and everything. When the computer restarted, it came up with "Choose your keyboard layout". Now, I've had this problem twice before with simply regular booting the computer, and I've always put an iso file on a usb, and booted with it. It gives me an option to repair drive, which I do, and everything is fine.
However, with this, I can turn the computer off and turn it back on again and it works, but I can't restore it.
Any hep would be greatly appreciated.
Specs (if needed)
Asus M5A78L-M/USB3 Micro ATX AM3+ Motherboard
AMD FX-8350 8-core
Gigabyte GTX 960 2GB OC Edition
8GB DDR3 1333 RAM
1.5 Terabyte HDD (original drive)
500GB Samsung 850 Evo SSD (new drive)
EVGA 430W PSU
Note: Every time I turn my PC on, it comes up with "Error writing temp file"
After that, I put the hard drive back into my computer, and I had tons of problems. Many shortcuts (not just game shortcuts, I was expecting those not to work) were not working, such as file explorer, chrome, and a few other applications that I had not tampered with when moving the games. I also couldn't search with the start menu.
Many of these were fixable by simply going into Windows Explorer, finding the file, and making a new shortcut, but some, like the start menu search, weren't. I looked up everything, and couldn't find a solution to work.
However, this isn't the main problem I've been having. I decided to just forget about the HDD. What I wanted to do was copy the HDD to the SSD, and then restore Windows to its original factory setting. I was able to copy everything with no problem. When I booted with the SSD, everything was as it should be.
I went to settings and went through the options to restore the computer, deleting all files and everything. When the computer restarted, it came up with "Choose your keyboard layout". Now, I've had this problem twice before with simply regular booting the computer, and I've always put an iso file on a usb, and booted with it. It gives me an option to repair drive, which I do, and everything is fine.
However, with this, I can turn the computer off and turn it back on again and it works, but I can't restore it.
Any hep would be greatly appreciated.
Specs (if needed)
Asus M5A78L-M/USB3 Micro ATX AM3+ Motherboard
AMD FX-8350 8-core
Gigabyte GTX 960 2GB OC Edition
8GB DDR3 1333 RAM
1.5 Terabyte HDD (original drive)
500GB Samsung 850 Evo SSD (new drive)
EVGA 430W PSU
Note: Every time I turn my PC on, it comes up with "Error writing temp file"
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