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Agreed, time to replace the HD.

"Take care of thy backups and thy restores shall take care of thee." Ben Franklin, revisted

In an earlier post of mine: “…I think it’s called Intelligent Copy/non-sector by sector cloning…” I realized I posted that phrase in error; and am finally getting around to admitting it and correcting my error. Intelligent Copy is a part of making full images, not cloning. Next time, I’ll be more careful.

"Take care of thy backups and thy restores shall take care of thee." Ben Franklin, revisted

“…But the bottom line is that there is no real reason to “clean” the registry, other than in very specific circumstances.” One specific purpose, circumstance, was to remove a registry entry that was calling up a utility that had been “fired” by me, almost entirely removed by Revo Uninstaller Pro. I can’t remember which specific it was, however, that registry cleaning surgical strike did the job.

"Take care of thy backups and thy restores shall take care of thee." Ben Franklin, revisted

“…Registrar Registry Manager…” For specific targets, for specific purposes, [which NEVER included making PC SlimmerTrimmer, FasterOptimized, and other such worthless attempts] — for getting rid of dead-wood that has dammed the stream a little bit — and for uninstalls that kind of sort of got registry residuals past Revo Uninstaller Pro or free — I have carefully, cautiously, used Resplendence’s Registrar Registry Manager, Auslogics and Wise registry cleaners [they MUST be advanced/custom installed! Use nothing else that comes on their menu!] with success.
Like you, I make backups before such tactical surgery. And test afterwards.

"Take care of thy backups and thy restores shall take care of thee." Ben Franklin, revisted

Did you earlier give each hard-drive and each partition [existing anywhere] a unique name? That way, regardless of usb or dvd or whatever boot, even as the drive letters are shuffled, you will be sure you’re aiming a wipe utility at the proper item.

"Take care of thy backups and thy restores shall take care of thee." Ben Franklin, revisted

I have typed file folder from time to time, probably thread starter also meant to type file folder, which of course, is the same thing as a directory 🙂 However, if thread starter did manage to shovel DOCs into a single file — I’m sticking around to find out just how that was done.

"Take care of thy backups and thy restores shall take care of thee." Ben Franklin, revisted

Thanks Joe for answering the question I asked. Dick

Sorry for my indirect answer 🙂 I was only thinking of OS and data preservation, and if ever needed: EZ data restoration.

"Take care of thy backups and thy restores shall take care of thee." Ben Franklin, revisted

I do not recommend moving the Users section from OS C to data D; too many troubles if an OS restore or even a data restore is necessary. I have made “parallel” directories on D and “told” each program that writes — to write to a D folder and not to C folder. Now, the material ending in Users[acct name]AppData — that material I recommend leaving on C with the OS.

"Take care of thy backups and thy restores shall take care of thee." Ben Franklin, revisted

…if you had, you might have been signed up for 50 magazines…

"Take care of thy backups and thy restores shall take care of thee." Ben Franklin, revisted

I visit many advice columns, and if I’m not careful, I’ll accidentally click on the border of an ad somewhere on the advice column page — leading me to do a quick red X on that advertisement page “behind” the advice column page.
I suspect that might be what has happened to the thread starter.

"Take care of thy backups and thy restores shall take care of thee." Ben Franklin, revisted

“…Then I could use the recovery USB to image my three Windows computers to my external USB drive I use only for backups…”

Acronis has a way of marrying the license and the program to one computer. Once the license is set for computer A, if computer B shows up with it, either A or B or both will have the installed copy uninstalled. Now, the product should work very well the way you desire to use it.

I just now realized I misunderstood! My bad, my comment above does not appear to apply here.

"Take care of thy backups and thy restores shall take care of thee." Ben Franklin, revisted

I posted eariler, so I thought:
There are no “stupid” threads or posts! We welcome all threads and posts, right everybody? 🙂

"Take care of thy backups and thy restores shall take care of thee." Ben Franklin, revisted

I remember reading somewhere that a total of 256 characters can be squeezed into a folder & file name “one-liner”; for lack of better technical English; I hope somebody can explain far better than I. I’m in a middle school cafeteria with noisy kids and distractions. 🙂

"Take care of thy backups and thy restores shall take care of thee." Ben Franklin, revisted

Are there any privacy programs running? ?I’m taking a wild guess that possibly a privacy program is now and then a little too assertive in its protection of your usernames, passwords, and information?

"Take care of thy backups and thy restores shall take care of thee." Ben Franklin, revisted

Bought the family 5PC lifetime license pack offer – $57.00 rounding up total.

"Take care of thy backups and thy restores shall take care of thee." Ben Franklin, revisted