Windows 10: Stuck and going backwards with MR7 Home

With this same exact hardware setup, does Macrium Reflect version 6 work aok? I want to rule in or rule out other possible contributory causes [be the causes hardware, software, or a combination thereof] that lead to the errors you posted.

 

From his first post, Page #1:

I had MR6 Free and decided to take the plunge with 7

He didn't explicitly say so, but this would indicate he was running ok with MR V6 free.

 

F14Tomcat, you're probably right as rain, I thought maybe the hardware setup might have been altered recently in the efforts to get MR7 working.

 

3:00AM again alarm in 3.5
Sograbbed some screen shots you asked for after picking throiugh C*Biggrinrive and freeing up a few more GB. Reran DiscCleanup and followed your instructions, focused on 1,5,and 7and kept all checked files checked, scared off of it last time, that free'd up about 80MB.
Then hit a problem whe I should not have, and am still stuck here. Was not able to run System Protection, and it's off and I was not able to get it on, or even to read any drive, see screen shots. Thats when I went to start removong some programs from C: Also, could not run the VSS Shadow Storage List in an elevated CMD see screenshot after 20mins, here's the screen shots:
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(That PROCESSING juust popped on when I pasted my snip)
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Drive size:
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It does not appear that it like Snipping tool here. I"LL BE NOT A FREAKING SNIP WAS SAVED.........

OK, thats where I'm at now, slow rollin, On the upside I am not running VSS at 30% since freeing up those extra GB, now is MS will stop flooding my C: during updates....... I'm considering moving all win10 and system files to a dedicated external HDD, if I could find a way to make it work, too much crap has been loaded into my C; that i didnt catch, and more try to wind their way in there all the time it seems, they just dont appreciate the views from F; and E: apparently.

Mona tried to tell me, To stay away from the train line, She said that all the railroad men, Just drink up your blood like wine

 

Lambert! *chuckle What are you doing? Sorry, your whole post just made me chuckle!

Get all the personal data off to an external drive, unplug it and hide it. Do a complete clean install, put MR6 back on (and leave it there), copy all your personal data back on. Check it out and back it up. That's what Mona would tell you. *Biggrin

 

screenshots, NOT SNIPS


f14 I'm glad i brought a chuckle to ya CUZ i'M DYING HERE, AND CHUCKLING AS WELL, OR MAYBE CRYING LIKE A SLEEP DEPRAVED LUNATIC, Sorry, thats the third time I hit capslock not fixing it this time, must be ment to be, but I'm not yelling though.....Man, I may have 2 hours of sleep if lucky. Good thing the boss is to be out today, hopefully I'm not scheduled to be in the ER today for surgery.....
not......but, I'm gonna need a nappy fer sure. A CLEAN install, OMG,I see the wisdom, was hoping to avoid it. i've got blisters on my fingers, and my eyeballs.
aoh my, I have never done a clean install, welltechnically, I ha loaded a new windows to a new computer, but thats a bit different. I know the tutorials are here is that what is best? Basiocally as best as I can figure somthing jacked my VSS, and apparently getting it back to where it oncew belonged is not as simple as it should be I guess.

S'cuz me, I gotta wipe the blood from my eyes and off my brand new leopard skin pillbox hat!
THANX TOMCAT, it at least has been a bit fun, and I learned something, I just cant think of it right now, but I know I did, it has only been a few weeks, I think I D/L MR7 on the 7th, OUCH!

 

Chuckle away, Lambert! My, that IS a nasty looking Disk Management screenshot. Clean install is not hard. The most important, MOST important, thing is to have your data backed up. Pics, docs, vids...that stuff. And keys. You can always reinstall any apps. Basically, if it's in your USERNAME/ folder, copy it all somewhere else offline. EXT drive, OneDrive, somewhere...and unplug it!

Clean install tutorial is pretty straight forward, and there is an Army of people here who have done many of them.

You've been beating yourself up for a while now fighting with this. At some point...........

Choice is yours. Would be nice, though, to have a clean machine ready for all the hoopla of Creator's Update coming Apr. 11th.

Give it some thought. Cheers. *Smile TC

 

Unfortunately, that little "Backing Up" piece is what has been eatrting at my soul for a few months now, VSS kinked my MR7, then lost my backups when trying to move all to my new external drive, and it's been down hill since then. I have 456GB in a BU partitionm from MR7 and and another 513gb of what MR7 has collected, I will need to explore what is there, But, I could really just unplug all but C: and F;F, the only internal memory going here.

I am feeling sorry for myself and work, and whoever expects muxh from this beatdog today, and why am I laughing at my sorry state....
I'll come back for more lashes in 12hrs or so.....Today should be a joyride.....
Thanx though f14TC at least you got her just in time to pull my finger off the pin.
and turned the frown, upsidedown.
OhMoma, Is this really the end?

 

You can always use Explorer to copy your folders/files somewhere else. Slow, possibly tedious, but effective. There's always a way.

See ya in 12hrs or so..... (get some sleep....)

 

@Lambert58

I've posted your Visitor Message you sent me this morning (5:00 a.m - 4/13/2017) in order to better work with it. It's difficult, if not nearly impossible, to respond effectively using Visitor Messages, or PM's. Hope you don't mind. Here is the text of your message:

To answer your question, or try to, if you got the ISO for the Creators Update, I would strongly recommend to make a bootable media, thumb or DVD, and do a clean install.....NOT update your system as it is. Clean install. Copy all your personal data (files, pics, vids, etc.) onto an external media of your choice and disconnect it. Then do a complete clean install following the instructions in this tutorial. When doing the Clean Install, delete every partition on the drive, ALL of them, until you have one big un-allocated partition. That is where you want to install, on the big un-allocated. Windows will create all the partitions it needs. When all done and activated, back it up so you have a "virgin" clean OS to fall back on if needed. Then, copy all your personal data back onto the drive and install any apps/progs you need. Please ask if you have any questions at all about the procedure. There are many members here who have done this a number of times, and are very familiar with the process.

Clean Install Windows 10 - Windows 10 Installation Upgrade Tutorials

Looking forward to hearing from you.....TC

 

Thanks for turningh on the light f14TomCat, they don't make 'em like you much anymore. I'v got a pot 'o Joe so think have to use a fork and a knife and I am ready to go, the most I was expecting was a point to N, S, E. or W, and I received a path. Let's see how I travel, May your own flight path be geese free.

Hey! Mr.Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy and there is no place I'm going to, Hey! Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, In the jingle jangle morning I'll come followin' you
-Now channel your inner shatner

 

Got the .iso D/L with MCT to a new amd em,ty 32GB PNY 3.0
Cleaning out C:
All the photos/vid/music is moved.
User Profiles, I know I cant, or should not, so am not, moving them.
In C: Users I have Admin, Guest 15bytes, Public 242bytes, My own 35.5MB, can clean some, Default.migrated 0, Default 256k, AppData has in it Roaming w. dvdfabconfig regfile for same, and Administrator 264MB w/o images, video, personal data that I am aware of.
where to find my bookmarks from firefox not in my non-exiatant tool folder in exploree.

PLUS, I better take this guy off line, or, do I. Will Creator be shoved down my pipe, it's 9:30PST already? if the computer and internet are on? The tablet is a droid, so, just sayin. Still gotta try to move or lose some stuff, Bottom line, seems if C: were wiped right now, would just lose programs and prog data for the most part. Some SW I have copies, some long gone.

 

JUST IN:

The following all failed to install on 4/112 (which is not bad news in my case} when will they be tried again, when the space openes up, which it has as of now I have about 9GB in C)
Cumulative Update for Windows 10 Version 1607 for x64-based Systems (KB4015217)
Update for Windows (KB4015438)
Update for Windows (KB4015438)
Update for Windows (KB4015438)

failed on 3/28
Cumulative Update for Windows 10 Version 1607 for x64-based Systems (KB4015438)

Succussfillu installed on 3/21
Update for Windows 10 Version 1607 for x64-based Systems (KB3150513)