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No, it shows up in wifi. There is no connection via cable to either the phone of ipad.

Thanks

Both the desktop and Laptop will connect to either iPhone or iPad. It’s just that the desktop will not access the internet once connected whereas the Laptop will

Both iphone and ipad hotspots use wifi. They are both setup the same way that i can tell.

Thanks

What I ultimately decided on this was to get a better monitor. Dell has some rally good ones that are already set up with KVM and auto KVM. Should be here this week so I will give some feedback once I get comfortable with it.

Thanks for all the advice.

https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/dell-ultrasharp-32-4k-video-conferencing-monitor-u3223qz/apd/210-bdvu/computer-monitors

 

Thanks for all of the replies. To elaborate a little more, both computers will be side by side. My wife who is not technical at all will have to be able to access the home computer infrequently, so the change to that computer must be easy and seamless.

I use RPC for remote access to my office when working from home. I don’t see something like that would work on the same monitor, but I can look into it.

Thanks you all for the replies and Happy New Year

Hi Rick,

Will this process work on new Win 10 machines from Dell or are they already set up upon arrival?

JP

Rick Corbett wrote:

The Mini Tower has slightly better air flow… perhaps of consideration if you do a lot of processor-intensive tasks that make the internal fans runs more frequently. Other than that there’s little difference.

Thanks Rick and everyone else,

It looks like the tower is the best option for me.

I will look into getting quotes for the smallest SDD I can get and then plan on installing larger ones once they arrive.

[Moderator edit] Joe, please only quote the relevant sections – highlight and click quote.

Rick Corbett wrote:

You didn’t mention whether you are considering the Small Form Factor or Mini Tower variants of the Optiplex 3070

Thanks Rick,

I haven’t decided yet on which box from Dell. Any advantages on either box? I thought they both had space for multiple drives, but I will check again tomorrow. They will both fit into the space available. The Form factor being smaller will have more room for the multitude of cables and such. Does anyone know if the 3.5″ drive will fit in the smaller box?

Noel Carboni wrote:

Generally speaking you can self-configure some Dell systems.

Thanks Noel,

I was thinking about this exact same approach earlier today. I am glad to see it come up here. I can get the smaller 256 SSD from Dell and then add a 1TB one from a different supplier. That should be plenty of space for the foreseeable future. I have 12 GB of RAM now but with the SDD, I am hoping it will be faster.

JP

mn– wrote:

Some 85% of the time when I’ve seen a Windows 7 system have a “nearly full” disk, it’s been at least mostly one of the Windows 7 update bugs. CBS log bloat, WinSXS bloat… so please check for that first.

Thanks Mn, I will look into that.

JP

I checked the SMART option in the bios. It was not checked (disabled) which sounds like why Macrium had an issue. I checked the box and will do the same with all the others as well. As these machines age, it would be a good idea to log any potential issues. They are on all the time so I am anticipating more issues, but hopefully not.

 

It looks like I was successful in replacing the old HDD with a new one and got everything up and running again. I used TeraByte backup and it was able to create an image so that I could reinstall everything. Surprisingly Macrium was unable to work as well and would not finish the image backup. I plan on buying a copy of TeraByte for my set of 4 computers.

Thanks everyone for all of your help. I never would have been able to accomplish this without it. I learned a lot in the process and now feel much more comfortable in taking this kind of failure head on.

As I mentioned before, I will be replacing them at some point with Win 10 Pro. At that point, I will be able to transfer everything from the old to the new using the same process.

 

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This is the VSS log. I will be away until next week and will follow up then

Thanks for all your help on this

 

(Gathering writer metadata…)
(Waiting for the asynchronous operation to finish…)
Initialize writer metadata …
– Get exclude files
– Enumerate components
– Get file list descriptors
– Get database descriptors
– Get log descriptors
– Get exclude files
– Enumerate components
– Get file list descriptors
– Get database descriptors
– Get log descriptors
– Get exclude files
– Enumerate components
– Get file list descriptors
– Get database descriptors
– Get log descriptors
– Get exclude files
– Enumerate components
– Get exclude files
– Enumerate components
– Get exclude files
– Enumerate components
– Get file list descriptors
– Get database descriptors
– Get log descriptors
– Get exclude files
– Enumerate components
– Get file list descriptors
– Get database descriptors
– Get log descriptors
– Get exclude files
– Enumerate components
– Get exclude files
– Enumerate components
– Get file list descriptors
– Get database descriptors
– Get log descriptors
Discover directly excluded components …
– Excluding writer ” since it has no selected components for restore.
– Excluding writer ” since it has no selected components for restore.
– Excluding writer ‘MSSearch Service Writer’ since it has no selected components for restore.
– Excluding writer ‘BITS Writer’ since it has no selected components for restore.
– Excluding writer ‘Shadow Copy Optimization Writer’ since it has no selected components for restore.
Discover components that reside outside the shadow set …
– Component ‘\TasksStore’ from writer ‘Task Scheduler Writer’ is excluded from backup (it requires C:\ in the shadow set)
– Component ‘\WriterMetadataStore’ from writer ‘VSS Metadata Store Writer’ is excluded from backup (it requires C:\ in the shadow set)
– Component ‘\PerformanceCounters’ from writer ‘Performance Counters Writer’ is excluded from backup (it requires C:\ in the shadow set)
– Component ‘\WMI’ from writer ‘WMI Writer’ is excluded from backup (it requires C:\ in the shadow set)
– Component ‘\COM+ REGDB’ from writer ‘COM+ REGDB Writer’ is excluded from backup (it requires C:\ in the shadow set)
– Component ‘\Registry’ from writer ‘Registry Writer’ is excluded from backup (it requires C:\ in the shadow set)
Discover all excluded components …
Discover excluded writers …
– The writer ‘Task Scheduler Writer’ is now entirely excluded from the backup:
(it does not contain any components that can be potentially included in the backup)
– The writer ‘VSS Metadata Store Writer’ is now entirely excluded from the backup:
(it does not contain any components that can be potentially included in the backup)
– The writer ‘Performance Counters Writer’ is now entirely excluded from the backup:
(it does not contain any components that can be potentially included in the backup)
– The writer ‘WMI Writer’ is now entirely excluded from the backup:
(it does not contain any components that can be potentially included in the backup)
– The writer ‘COM+ REGDB Writer’ is now entirely excluded from the backup:
(it does not contain any components that can be potentially included in the backup)
– The writer ‘Registry Writer’ is now entirely excluded from the backup:
(it does not contain any components that can be potentially included in the backup)
Discover explicitly included components …
Verifying explicitly specified writers/components …
Select explicitly included components …
Creating shadow set {ac448b20-91a0-4044-bbf1-b8c75d68f2ef} …
– Adding volume \\?\Volume{50c2e6c9-e0ba-11e9-a173-806e6f6e6963}\ [E:\] to the shadow set…
– Adding volume \\?\Volume{50c2e6ca-e0ba-11e9-a173-806e6f6e6963}\ [F:\] to the shadow set…
Preparing for backup …
(Waiting for the asynchronous operation to finish…)
(Waiting for the asynchronous operation to finish…)
Creating the shadow (DoSnapshotSet) …
(Waiting for the asynchronous operation to finish…)
(Waiting for the asynchronous operation to finish…)
Shadow copy set successfully created.
Saving the backup components document …

List of created shadow copies:

Querying all shadow copies with the SnapshotSetID {ac448b20-91a0-4044-bbf1-b8c75d68f2ef} …

* SNAPSHOT ID = {06e390d3-6b8e-439f-8a22-987d5f6778f0} …
– Shadow copy Set: {ac448b20-91a0-4044-bbf1-b8c75d68f2ef}
– Original count of shadow copies = 2
– Original Volume name: \\?\Volume{50c2e6c9-e0ba-11e9-a173-806e6f6e6963}\ [E:\]
– Creation Time: 10/7/2019 12:59:15
– Shadow copy device name: \\?\GLOBALROOT\Device\HarddiskVolumeShadowCopy14
– Originating machine: HomeOffice-PC
– Service machine: HomeOffice-PC
– Not Exposed
– Provider id: {b5946137-7b9f-4925-af80-51abd60b20d5}
– Attributes: Auto_Release Differential

* SNAPSHOT ID = {7917971d-922f-486b-8d0b-dc95e900123e} …
– Shadow copy Set: {ac448b20-91a0-4044-bbf1-b8c75d68f2ef}
– Original count of shadow copies = 2
– Original Volume name: \\?\Volume{50c2e6ca-e0ba-11e9-a173-806e6f6e6963}\ [F:\]
– Creation Time: 10/7/2019 12:59:15
– Shadow copy device name: \\?\GLOBALROOT\Device\HarddiskVolumeShadowCopy15
– Originating machine: HomeOffice-PC
– Service machine: HomeOffice-PC
– Not Exposed
– Provider id: {b5946137-7b9f-4925-af80-51abd60b20d5}
– Attributes: Auto_Release Differential

I did delete the prior backup from Macrium. I can probably run it again. I have a 2TB WD Passport drive so I have plenty of room.

I ll run it again and see how it comes out. Here’s the link to the report.

It did not complete the backup

 

https://prestonco-my.sharepoint.com/:w:/g/personal/joe_preston-company_com/EZ-VgTEpxz9LhZM1GsuwY-IBbgFVmhtN5n3cJ16gXS4NlQ?e=iJLND3