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SheltieMom wrote:

A couple of questions: What is on the SSD I will be removing? Is it Disc 0 and Disc 1? Want to make sure of the backup images. Once this is done, and I reconnect my external hard drives, will they be assigned the same letter? Is there any way to ensure they will? I know my Macrium is by letter of the drive, and my downloads folder, and I don’t know what else. Thank you!

Your screenshot shows your C: drive is on Disk 1.

Crucial has an Acronis-branded tool to help you clone the entire drive to the new drive.

https://www.acronis.com/en-sg/promotion/crucialhd-download/

My experience is that after the Crucial tool clones, the old drive is removed, and the new drive is installed, the drive letter is the same.

If it is not, you can right click on the volume (upper section of the Disk Management windows) and select “Change Drive Letter and Paths”.

Of course you would only change the drive letter.

 

Since this is now on day 11 (2 days prior to the thread start), it might be time to do an in-place upgrade…

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/16397-repair-install-windows-10-place-upgrade.html

 

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Cybertooth

IreneLinda wrote:

Wow, and thank ALL of you for ALL this information.

It’s a lot to take in…thanks for hanging in there.

To address your new questions (and maybe some old ones)…

 

Some folks often use the word “clone” for “image”, which can lead to confusion.

A drive “image” is an exact copy of your hard drive, but is not bootable. Multiple disk images can be stored on a single drive.

A drive “clone” is an exact copy of your hard drive, and is bootable. Only one clone can exist on a single drive.

A “data backup” is selective…meaning you pick which files and folders you want to backup.

This is how we personally use each…

Image –

We do a drive image once a week, and keep a maximum 12 weeks worth, for each user.

Images are like big zip files. So to keep x amount of images, you need storage available for x amount of images, whether your using an external USB drive, or a cloud service.

Our choice is a 2 TB external USB drive, that is kept offline when it’s not put to work. This is protection from any bad stuff, like ransomware, that will encrypt every drive it finds.

Clone –

We use this when buying a new drive.

As mentioned above, it also makes an exact copy of the “old” drive, and all we have to do is remove the old drive, install the new drive, boot, and we’re back in business.

Some folks use this as a backup strategy, which is fine.

However, for every clone, you need a new drive.

Having multiple clones would become expensive rather quickly.

Note: You can also restore a drive image to a new drive, which would be useful if the old drive was failing, or you couldn’t boot.

Data backup –

We do these daily (some folks do it hourly), since data changes frequently.

If you got in trouble and needed to restore your system to a known-good state, and you only had a weekly drive image, you would lose a weeks worth of data.

So at most, we might lose a day’s worth of work versus a week (or more, if we didn’t stick to the weekly image plan).

A restore for us is image first, then data.

Your 2 year-old SSD –

Is probably fine…it would depend on the parameters mentioned above (how much use has it had, etc.)

I would use a tool like Clear Disk Info to look at the S.M.A.R.T. indicators for the drive.

https://www.carifred.com/cleardiskinfo/

Its color coded results make it pretty straightforward.

I wouldn’t use the drive if anything shows other that OK…or Warning (and that can depend on where the Warning is).

 

 

 

 

 

 

TTYM wrote:

I have the same issue with a customers Lenovo AMD laptop.

Sysnative can help analyze the crash dump.

Follow their BSOD collection rules, and post on their forum.

https://www.sysnative.com/forums/threads/blue-screen-of-death-bsod-posting-instructions-windows-11-10-8-1-7-and-vista.68/

 

 

Paul T wrote:

SSDs like to have the power turned on every now and then to help retain data. A couple of times a month is more than enough, and you can do a test read to make extra sure.

While it’s true that NAND flash doesn’t last forever, data retention depends on more that just having power…the age of the drive, type of NAND flash memory, temperature in the environment it’s stored in, are also factors.

I would hope that an SSD used for backup would be lit up more than twice a month.

A clone that has been sitting on a shelf for a while might be a concern.

How would that “test read” work on an SSD with proprietery image files that are compressed?

I don’t know what you were using to get hashes on large files, but I just ran an MD5 on a 60 gig image file (Terabyte Unlimited Image for Windows) using ExactFile…that took 13 minutes.

 

 

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IreneLinda

Alex5723 wrote:

The bug is with Windows 11. Lenovo solution is for Windows 7, 8.1, 10

Well, one way to find out is download WinDbg and analyze the crash dump.

 

 

Why don’t you tell us what you have tried, so we won’t waste time on the same things.

 

seamonkey wrote:

are there any known issues from march updates for win10 that is causing wake from sleep mode not to work?

Nothing posted yet for Windows 10 22H2 in Windows Release Health…

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/release-health/

Screen saver –

Settings > Personalization > Lock screen

Scroll down to the bottom > Screen saver settings

Sleep –

Screen timeout settings (just above Screen saver settings)

 

 

 

NAS drives are “beefier”…

https://blog.synology.com/xmas-wishlist-why-choose-nas-drives-over-desktop-drives-for-your-nas

They’re designed for 24/7 use.

However, as mentioned previously, it’s still an SSD, so you’ll be fine.

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Kathy Stevens

Tom’s Guide reviews of cloud backup services…

https://www.tomsguide.com/best-picks/best-cloud-backup

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IreneLinda

Stop code THREAD STUCK IN DEVICE DRIVER

Lenovo suggests a BIOS update…

https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/solutions/ht500002-how-to-solve-the-thread-stuck-in-device-driver-error-windows

Paul T wrote:

Ransomware does not make any difference whether your system uses RAID or not. Recovering a failing / failed RAID array is an OS issue, not a data issue.

If a malware attack affects the data on your RAID, you restore exactly the same way you would to a non-RAID system

We’re not talking about OS issues…

The restore is the same…”if” the RAID data has been backed up.

RAID, in and of itself, is not data protection.

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Kathy Stevens

RetiredGeek wrote:

that’s with a blank document and blank presentation loaded

Of course…that’s what the OP suggested as a test.

I haven’t seen anything specific as to how much it uses.

It would be interesting to see the threads it creates in Sysinternals Process Explorer.

 

RetiredGeek wrote:

It would appear that only Word and PowerPoint are currently “infected”!

Not a lot of overhead at less than 20 MB of memory.