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General Computer Support / Re: how to know the compatibility of processor to the mother board?

« on: November 04, 2017, 05:25:17 am »

Zebronics MOBO? https://zebronics.com/legacy-category/motherboard

Run CPUZ to get details on the model number, CPU and RAM.

http://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/cpu_z.html

Once you know the processor socket, you can check for compatible cpus here...http://www.cpu-world.com/Sockets/index.html

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General Computer Support / Re: pingsender "Alert"

« on: September 11, 2017, 03:49:41 am »

Ever hear of programs sharing other programs to FUNCTION?

delete the file named or run the risk of contamination!

up to you;

So, did you uninstall Firefox or Windows OS?

I would have thought that in China there are far greater powers keeping a closer eye on your online activity than Mozilla 

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General Computer Support / Re: pingsender "Alert"

« on: September 08, 2017, 05:41:43 am »

Very, very unlikely that changing browser settings would affect PC boot.

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General Computer Support / Re: pingsender "Alert"

« on: September 08, 2017, 05:08:06 am »

Here you go https://is.gd/wZT6XI

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General Computer Support / Re: pingsender "Alert"

« on: September 08, 2017, 04:16:12 am »

Open Firefox "Options" > "Advanced" > "Data Choices" and uncheck all the boxes.

And/ Or,  enter "about:config" in the address bar (without the "s), and set the following as below:

toolkit.telemetry.archive.enabled to false
toolkit.telemetry.enabled to false
toolkit.telemetry.unified to false

Or in a similar vein to Julian' suggestion, Pale Moon and Sandboxie work well, and that is on a super low spec machine.

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Everything Else / Re: Just saying Hi

« on: August 12, 2017, 11:14:19 am »

The OP may have an inflatable 

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General Computer Support / Re: cloning or imaging which is best for restore in the even of hdd failure

« on: August 08, 2017, 05:58:41 am »

I don't know the answer to that J.

This thread is getting longer and longer, and veering off track. If you are now regularly making backups with Macrium Reflect, have created rescue media and are now happy, then perhaps it is time to close it?

Other questions may get more responses in a new thread? 

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General Computer Support / Re: cloning or imaging which is best for restore in the even of hdd failure

« on: August 08, 2017, 05:22:44 am »

If you select ALL partitions on a HDD, then the image will include EVERYTHING, whether hidden or not.

If there are no errors shown in the backup log and the VSS log and the backup completes successfully, then it is pretty safe to assume that evrything is working fine.

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General Computer Support / Re: cloning or imaging which is best for restore in the even of hdd failure

« on: August 08, 2017, 05:04:26 am »

By default Macrium reflect uses medium compression, and intelligent sector copy. Meaning it ignores pagefile and hibernation file. The resultant image will be smaller as it is compressed.

You can check for VSS errors in the logs. see screenshot.

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General Computer Support / Re: cloning or imaging which is best for restore in the even of hdd failure

« on: July 30, 2017, 09:03:40 am »

Get the drive replaced or a refund under warranty, maybe print out the SeaTools log to support your case.

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General Computer Support / Re: cloning or imaging which is best for restore in the even of hdd failure

« on: July 30, 2017, 04:01:09 am »

Yes, you can copy a macrium image file to another drive. I do not know about any program files from the manufacturer on the external drive though.

DST failed fix suggests the drive is faulty/ failing. Reformatting may not fix this.

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General Computer Support / Re: cloning or imaging which is best for restore in the even of hdd failure

« on: July 29, 2017, 09:18:14 am »

Way too much information J, I am confused, I have no idea which machine we are talking about here, Laptop, PC both?

 Let's deal with each machine separately. Start with which machine and which software Macrium or Robocopy? I can't help with Robocopy. I don't use it.

If all else fails you could just use Windows 7 built in back up if this is your desktop PC giving problems?

I don't know why you are messing about with using a Linux bootable CD in order to boot from the USB flash drive, just create the Macrium recovery CD 

First i had the problem of recognizing of ext. hdd in explorer, but not in list disk or disk management. So , i got crc error. I have used chkdsk /r both in pc as well as in ext.hdd. The ext.hdd chkdsk took almost 8 hours to check as it is 1.3tb.After that, when i tried the backup, it shows progress bar upto 5 and then stops there, no not responding but running in task manager. What would have been the issue.

CRC errors may mean the external HDD is failing/ faulty. Seagate? Test with SeaTools http://www.seagate.com/gb/en/support/downloads/seatools/

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / A sneak preview of V4

« on: July 25, 2017, 09:22:41 am »

Here is a sneak preview video of V4 from MajorGeeks.com

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuloJRoNc_M

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General Computer Support / Re: cloning or imaging which is best for restore in the even of hdd failure

« on: July 21, 2017, 10:06:41 pm »

Hi, Samson, I will try another usb port.

  Be sure to try one at the rear, that connects directly to the motherboard.

but what is hash is incorrect. It is the same program , mac ref that is writing the image from the one from computer in its own form.

The article I linked to explains this.

Maybe best to ask here https://forum.macrium.com/Forum3.aspx

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General Computer Support / Re: cloning or imaging which is best for restore in the even of hdd failure

« on: July 21, 2017, 09:49:02 pm »

Verification failure is caused by the fact that the data that is written to your backup drive cannot be read back reliably.

See this Knowledge base article http://knowledgebase.macrium.com/display/KNOW7/Understanding+Image+Verification+Failures
"Errors of this type are symptomatic of a computer system with a marginal hardware problem. The most likely suspect is your backup media - but memory and motherboard faults can also cause this issue."

First thing I'd try is plug the external drive into a different USB socket, try a socket at the rear of the PC.

I have never had a verification error so can offer little help.

Remember that any image that you do manage to create will be useless unless you have the ability to boot from resccue media.

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General Computer Support / Re: cloning or imaging which is best for restore in the even of hdd failure

« on: July 21, 2017, 03:57:42 am »

In most cases a single rescue disk will work on multiple machines. I am not sure what you want from me here, but the simplest solution in your case will be to.....

Use the USB pendrive that you have created for your son's laptop on that machine. You have tested it and it worked right?

Replace the CD/DVD drive on yours and create the rescue media on CD/ DVD and use that on yours.

You will not have to enter any Windows key, as you are restoring an activated image, not reinstalling the OS.

I have no idea what options are available in your BIOS, is this the Intel D915GAV board? 
Latest BIOS is EV91510A.86A.0482.2006.0222.2350 February 23, 2006 I suggest you ask here https://communities.intel.com/community/tech/desktop

You may want to think about changing your signature 

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General Computer Support / Re: cloning or imaging which is best for restore in the even of hdd failure

« on: July 20, 2017, 08:45:01 am »

Is this relating to creating the rescue media?...And am I correct in now thinking that your PC has no option to boot from USB and a dead DVD drive? 

You have a few choices here...

With USB thumb drive plugged in, try searching the boot options, it might show up then.

Check again in the BIOS for settings to enable booting from USB, may involve a BIOS update.

Replace the dead DVD drive.

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Everything Else / Re: Heads Up! XP and Legacy OS users

« on: July 19, 2017, 09:19:54 am »

That is right and then the multiple updates in June covered the remainder of the NSA's Eternal Blue vulnerabilities.

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Everything Else / Re: Heads Up! XP and Legacy OS users

« on: July 19, 2017, 08:28:48 am »

It is a bit odd that MS go to the trouble of putting out these updates for legacy OS but don't make them available via automatic updates. Users have to firstly be aware of their existence and then have to actively seek them out and install them. If they had been put out through automatic updates they (MS) would surely get a better take up rate? 

EDIT The link in your post is just for the single May patch, My first post gives links to the chunk issued in June, I think I had 9 then.

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General Computer Support / Re: cloning or imaging which is best for restore in the even of hdd failure

« on: July 19, 2017, 03:12:17 am »

Not sure what you mean?

If there is no option in the BIOS to boot from USB, then create the rescue media on CD/ DVD. It takes a bit longer to load up but works just fine.

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General Computer Support / Re: cloning or imaging which is best for restore in the even of hdd failure

« on: July 16, 2017, 03:20:10 am »

Yes PE 3.1 is fine for Win7 and XP. If your Win 7 machine does not have the option to boot from USB, then create the rescue media on CD.

You can add comments during the backup process you will see "advanced Options" in the bottom left hand corner of the window as you go through the back up process.

You do not have the same version as me, mine is 5.3 build 7299

Don't worry about the exclamation. It simply means that the rescue media does not have the driver for your wireless NIC, you don't need it for the backup/ restore process, so ignore it. it is fine.

Remember to back up the data in other partions on the drive or do a backup selecting the whole drive/ all partitions.

i just exited once i saw the backup file and restore option menu.

You are the first person that I have known to get "excited" by backing up, that is a good thing 

Edit: My bad, I misread "exited" for "excited" 
I did n't think anyone would get excited by backing up 

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General Computer Support / Re: cloning or imaging which is best for restore in the even of hdd failure

« on: July 15, 2017, 08:45:20 am »

A few more tips for you 

I keep backup images for different machines in their own named folders (ie the name of the machine as the folder name eg on my external HDD I have a folder named "DELL Laptop", "DELL PC" and another named "HP PC") the images for each machine go into their own named folder. It helps to be organised.

Also, when taking an image you can add a comment, to act as a memory jogger eg after the recent XP updates in June I added a comment "Post XP updates". I don't know about you but I have a memory like a sieve and need reminding of things later down the road 

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General Computer Support / Re: cloning or imaging which is best for restore in the even of hdd failure

« on: July 15, 2017, 06:31:14 am »

It will boot up into a windows environment, a cut down version of macrium reflect, with normal windows controls. Just do it, and with your external HDD attached open the restore tab and you should see the image that you have made. Then just close the program, it will be obvious how.

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General Computer Support / Re: cloning or imaging which is best for restore in the even of hdd failure

« on: July 15, 2017, 06:15:59 am »

Test it out, you can just close it without actually making any changes to your system...you should be able to see the image (if you have made one) on your external HDD.

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General Computer Support / Re: cloning or imaging which is best for restore in the even of hdd failure

« on: July 14, 2017, 06:08:51 am »

Windows 7 has its own backup, so do you need macrium there? Your choice.

The version I use is 5.3 build 7299 works on Win 7 and XP, newer versions available but I stick with this one as it works well for me.