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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by martyb on Saturday December 05 2020, @07:56PM (1 child)

    by martyb (76) Subscriber Badge on Saturday December 05 2020, @07:56PM (#1084404) Journal

    Thanks for the response. Much appreciated!

    You backed up drive image from hardware 1, but expected that Windows install to run on different hardware.

    I think there is a misunderstanding. Never once did I intend to boot from the backup. I was just trying to restore a file from it. Had the backup drive connect as an external USB disk. My intent was to locate and then copy a file from the USB drive to my internal drive.

    For whatever reason, Windows failed to recognize that the external drive was attached when I first connected it. I could not find a way to access the files on the external drive.

    Since my system had been up for about a month, I thought Windows might have gone sideways over time. Just need a reboot and I'd be fine. Right?

    Unfortunately for me, Windows did what I told it to do when I tried rebooting. I failed to realize my boot order was USB before internal drive... until it was too late. At that point the damage was already done.

    In all cases. the drives were attached to the same (original) laptop computer; no other machine was involved.

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  • (Score: 2) by RS3 on Saturday December 05 2020, @08:34PM

    by RS3 (6367) on Saturday December 05 2020, @08:34PM (#1084412)

    My intent was to locate and then copy a file from the USB drive to my internal drive.

    Perfect plan.

    I installed the backup into another laptop (DELL ...

    That's where I thought you were saying you put a "cloned" drive into another laptop. I understand now. :)

    So with drive connected external USB, Windows tried to boot, and somehow corrupted the drive? I can see where Windows would have tried to rebuild its kernel, but shouldn't have corrupted any filesystem structure.

    Have you run simple "chkdsk" and/or other disk check tools, including scanning for bad sectors?

    I have spinning rust drives failing left and right. I hate them. Esp. Seagate.