Atomizer posted:

I use Macrium Reflect for cloning but Partition Wizard for any other kind of disk management like when there are partitions that Windows refuses to let me nuke.

Potato Salad posted:

windows backup is soooooooooooooooooooo...

*deep breath*

...ooooooooooooooo bad

redeyes posted:

Well it could be worse like OSX. Where the backup is great but the OS actually needs it when it self destructs for no reason.

oohhboy posted:

??? Time Machine has saved me a lot of trouble many times whether it be a full restore, reversion, migration or file recovery.

oohhboy posted:

??? Time Machine has saved me a lot of trouble many times whether it be a full restore, reversion, migration or file recovery.

Ika posted:

Probably because a dozen vendors would sue em for monopolistic practices / unfair competition.

redeyes posted:

I phrased that badly. OSX blows up randomly, so thank god time machine works most of the time.

oohhboy posted:

Yeah, I have had that happen once, so did my sister. Neither resulted in data loss because of TM. Mac's extra cool feature is built in network recovery which is a life saver in itself. But yeah, an OS blowing up isn't special as I expect it to at least once in a machine's lifetime. "It just works" no doubt magnifies the perception.

Windows has blown up several times on me, usually when boot manager fries itself . Whether the rate is higher is lower is pretty anecdotal and context dependant. I don't have back up for Windows as it doesn't need it as it's only there to play games. Fibre internet and SSD means it doesn't take long to get going again. Depending on how much functionality I want back it takes about an hour to start playing again mostly waiting on Windows update. On an HDD and ADSL otoh, half a day again mostly Windows Update. What a got drat menace with failing updates, blowing up Windows and annoying af interrupting you at the worse time. It's better now but I remain wary.

Bob Morales posted:

Recommendations for a USB 3 to nvme SSD adapter dealio?

I have one for SATA M.2 drives from Amazon, but you can't swap the drive out without a tiny screwdriver and tiny screws so I was hoping for a nice tool-less one that doesn't cost $50.

Binary Badger posted:

BTW, Micro Center has switched OEMs for their super el cheapo USB thumb drives to newer Phison controllers, a 16 GB thumb drive I got from them for only five bucks has a read speed of 100 MB/sec and a write speed of 35-45 MB/sec, not bad for the price and sure helps speed up Windows 10 upgrades.

It seems the trick is you have to pick the right kind out of their little drawer bins at the register; they must be 1) transparent plastic and 2) have a Phison controller you can see at the bare limit of readability and 3) it has to be labeled "USB3.1," they have a bunch labeled "USB3.0" that are not see-through that are absolute garbage and have read/write speeds equivalent to floppies.

Bob Morales posted:

And the Microsoft Store is somehow worse than the Apple App store at freezing up downloads, refusing to actually download anything, thinking you have things downloaded that you don't...

Mr.Radar posted:

FRINGE posted:

For the most part M2s are meant to be anchored with that screw at the end. (Also remember they are not great as "leave on the shelf" storage. If thats what you want to do use a rotational/magnetic drive.)

FRINGE posted:

Have you hit any that diskpart couldnt get recently?

Atomizer posted:

I hadn't actually tried diskpart but I can tell you what I've used Partition Wizard for, which is more or less two things:
- occasional application-specific boot (USB flash) drives that end up with multiple small partitions that Windows sees (in Disk Management,) but can't do anything with, including reformat.
- Windows system drives from other systems (that have either been broken down or the boot drive has been replaced.) Understandably Windows doesn't want to let users reformat what it identifies as Windows system partitions, even if they're not for the active OS. It's much easier to deal with such drives when attached to another system though, rather than getting a boot medium of some kind and launching that just to reformat the drive.

Klyith posted:

code:

> diskpart

You are in a room containing 4 drives. It is dark. You may be eaten by a grue.

> look disk 1

You see a disk containing 465 GB.

> wipe disk

As your data vanishes, you recall that you wanted to delete a 500 GB partition, not your 500 GB SSD drive. Your adventure ends here.

doctorfrog posted:

for serious I physically disconnected everything that wasn't the drive I wanted to do this to a couple weeks ago to install Windows.

oohhboy posted:

That is very good


Given the option I do it logically, far less of a hassle. SATA cables aren't fond of fondling.

iirc Windows 7 and lower would gently caress up if there was more than one disk on install.

Klyith posted:

~ZORKPART~

Geemer posted:

It also wouldn't kill MS if they made their GUI disk management tool halfway competent. Why do I even need to pull up a CLI tool like diskpart to clean a disk?

FRINGE posted:

Diskpart is great and very reliable. I hope they never touch it.

willroc7 posted:

I was able to complete the cloning operation successfully with a new 860 evo. I booted to macrium reflect's rescue media and cloned from there, removing the old drive and using the same connections for the new one. I think I'm going to RMA the old one. I've already spent a ton of time trying to fix it. Thanks for all the input from the thread.