Windows 10: Should I Be Concerned and Extra Cautious

Thanks for the reassurance. I forgot about the clocks that sometimes are part of the nag.

Macrium Reflect just informed me that the clone is done. Is there any point in verifying it, or can I count on empirical observation to tell me when I have only the cloned disk to boot from.

I think I will shut down, disconnect the original System Disk and have a look at the clone to see if it runs.

thanks for your patience

 

Yes sir, just try to boot from it. If you have a problem, let me know.

 

baumgrenze, are you still with us?

 

I am still here, although pretty soon I'll need some sustenance to get through the evening.

I just paid dearly for not documenting which SSD was in which drive bay. I could not see the S/N without disconnecting and removing one of the two. While I was in there, I realized I really needed to vacuum the front air filters.....And so it goes.

What I did not appreciate was that when I cloned my old System Disk the clone inherited the recognizable name I'd just given it. And, of course, Windows called it C:.

I tried running CrystalDiskInfo but Windows returned the cryptic message, "The drive or network connection that the shortcut 'CrystalDiskInfo.lnk' refers to is unavailable..." I learned earlier today that it does return the S/N. It is also probably true that the new Crucial Storage Executive program displays that. I hope to find out soon.

My next task is to use the copy of the program on my USB stick to update the drive firmware. I will report back after that.

thanks

 

No joy!

I had my digital camera at the ready, flash off, but the designer of the update routine chose a black screen with blue text so that the shutter speed is way too low to get a readable image, esp when screens are going by quickly and you are unfamiliar with the time available.

I caught this much:

"Invalid firmware directory specified with -i option" but the following path was harder to read, maybe it was "tmp/mse_firmware" and the program rebooted me back to the same firmware, but the system still works!

Perhaps I need to install the software on the drive being updated? I will go try an install on this drive next.

thanks



Somehow an image got attached. I looked at manage attachments but I could not see how to delete it. Please ignore it.

 

Nothing is easy...

The install wizard find a previous installation on G:\





I asked it to install anyway, figuring it would use the drive it is on, but it does not work, it cannot find G:\.

The wizard forgot to ask where I wanted to install it.

Windows Explorer only shows this:





thanks

 

OK, I assume you are booted into the cloned drive. If the Executive program was on the original drive, it should be on the cloned drive also. See if it is and try to open it and do the upgrade. If it won't open, go to control panel, uninstall a program and see if you can uninstall the executive program. Then Copy the Executive Installer to your C drive Desktop and install it again. The executive program is to update your SSD firmware. If you don't still have the Crucial Executive installer, download it again. I'll give you the link in just a minute.

 

Crucial Storage Executive Tool | Firmware Download | Crucial.com

I'm sure I must have missed something there. Whatever it is, please ask again. I don't see a G drive, so I don't know where that message came from.

 

BTW, if it makes you feel any better, I have 4 500GB Samsung SSDs in this machine, so I am very much aware of the problems you are having telling which drive you are dealing with.

 

No W10 install yet. *Sad

 

We could have, but I wanted to save that for you.

 

*Roflmao2

 

Good to see your avatar again simrick. Essenbe has tried hard with me. Been a tough day but I learned a lot (I hope.) I'm thankful to you both. To paraphrase Essenbe, "I know a whole lot, its just getting harder to remember it all, all at the same time."

Here's what I see. I missed the opening screen in "add remove programs" when I did screen dumps to Word so you can only see it in the background in the last image

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Should I say yes. I do not want to dig a bigger hole.





The 194 MB at the bottom seems small for all the stuff on my thumb drive.

I hope this makes sense to someone.

thanks

 

First download the free version of CCleaner (CCleaner - PC Optimization and Cleaning - Free Download) When you have it installed, click tools and it will show a list of all the programs. Highlight the Executive program and click uninstall.

If that doesn't work, run the control panel uninstaller again and say yes to that error.

 

Where did G drive come from? Is that one of the drives you have disconnected? If so, did you install that program to G and that's why it's looking for it there?