@DragonLord and it should be able to both "EFi system" and "boot" to only the SSD with the original C: letter used for that system, as long as you can point the UEFI to the correct disk, and the "EFI system" partitions BCD data, is pointed.
(you had to Fix the BCD first, or have soflware to do it for you)
For me, it was all mind blowingly complex, until after i had done it a few times, and realised it is just another lame method , like all the others.
Like the Fear linux users had that Secure boot would stop them from booting linux.
@DragonLord in the registry in the mounted devices section you can assign letters. but i tell ya it will do that for you somehow. remember the new method is to use the disks ID to find and boot to it, and the operating system gets re-lettered C when it is booted to it via the BCD junk.
yea, when you clone, the "boot" or booting info on the SSD is the same as it was, so it goes to the same place it did. if you remove any other possibility could be it tries anything, but i would think it would fail.
Motherboards will have a tendancy to hop from disk to disk as listed in the boot items, even net boots and cds and usb thngs, but the Windows system more often will just get lost somewhere and bail out.
We wouldnt want it any other way really. if I make multiple boot systems (seperate disks) on my machine for backup purposes, it just deciding on its own to go to one of them would be bad. The main system is collapsed, it is running so well on the backup that i do not know it till it too is destroyed. So even back at the hardware i let it only boot to one item. if it fails then i know, and can select a backup one.
"North Korea’s “dear leader” Kim Jong Un referred to cyber warfare capabilities as a “magic weapon” in conjunction with nuclear weapons and missiles." goes well with this:
A good backup of the volitile operating system, is like a game save :-) when you kill the system my making the wrong move, you should just be able to load up the last save :-)
@JourneymanGeek Which character did you choose—Nisha, Claptrap, Athena, Wilhelm, Jack?
Finally got the SSD working as intended. I'll post a question and answer about the problems I encountered and my solution so that others can learn from my experience.
I got a brand new Samsung 840 SSD. It came with "Data Migration" software from Samsung.
I am running Windows 8.1
Here are my steps exactly:
Installed new SSD into secondary bay (Disk 0: HDD, Disk 1: SSD).
Used the supplied software to migrate partitions C:\ and D:\ (the tool did not list a...
@DragonLord you showed pictures of the partition structure of the original HD, after using the samsung migration tool, but before you get lost booting to the new disk, did the migration tool create all three of the partitions ? (or is it a "data" tool not a clone tools)
Interesting....There is this user and in less than 40 minutes asked 5 horrible questions, and every single one of them received an up vote, every single one was "windows 10" related..
Remove the hard drive before booting into the SSD for the first time
The problem you experienced is caused by the Windows installation on the SSD continuing to reference the old hard drive. As a result, Windows incorrectly assigns a drive letter that is not C: to the SSD.
Because the system ass...
At work I can take screenshots of my entire screen with command+shift+3, or of a specific area with command+shift+4. Both commands output a .png file and drop it on the desktop without any further action needed from me.
On the other hand, with Windows, I've got to hit the printscreen button, ope...
@DragonLord no! i tell ya i have done cloning and shifting the whole of the os around from disk to raid to ssd , and removal is not nessisary. it is still good to disable or remove to test if the entirety is comming of the intended disk, but it is not supposed to work that way. it does not require removing , just making sure all the pointers are correct.
@Psycogeek The problem is that Windows is getting confused by the files on the old hard drive and is assigning the wrong drive letters as a result. This has nothing to do with BCD.
So it would still be a workaround, if there was some way to set it without pulling. I never pull my disks, But i have 2 raid systems so i can disable them at will. But i can clone boot to any one of them, without stopping things.
It doesnt really matter, because people have used all manners of ways to get thier clones working through the ages. and the methods are not usually impervious , then they give up and re-install :-) on the new disk
cool but how many times a month does anyone boot ?
Superfetch pre-loaded hundreds of megs of stuff , so a slow hard disk would be "faster" It is another thing that becomes less nessisary (or turned off) when you have a SSD.
That doesnt slow boot down much, but it clogs the system up for a few minutes at first.
Then you have extra real ram (not used to pre-load), that does not have to be cleared again if you get shorter on ram.
they say eventually they will sow down a lot, as they fill up, and data is strewn about it , and half written blocks and all, trim fixes the garbage collection stuff (and everyone ignores that this is still work it will have to do) , so you could check if trim is operational. there is some way to test it, but winders again handles this quite well, and mostly without any noticable balks occuring. I have never seen the samsung EVO thing change its speed from the mess on it yet.
I tested with crystal disk mark on the day it went in, and a year later it was within 2-3% the same speed on that particular bench, even when setting it for big writes and reads.
Some people will then set the paging to the hard disk, so there isnt all that terrible writing going on . I find that to be more like a "what's the point of the speed" If paging was ever needed, one of the worst slowdowns of a system i have ever felt, i would at that time sacrafice 2 virgins to a volcano to fix it , sooo like i care about a few extra writes on a SSD
@ekaj Did this journalist end up ticking-off the hackers? or saying things like "macs are not vulnerable like windows" because the times i see people getting in the middle of hacker wars, is when they taunt them or are hackers themselves, or chatted up in the hackers chat things.
Who gets hacked the most, is the hackers hacking on each other, to like prove things and all. From reading one of thier fights , it is like we are all totally vulnerable all day every day (like real life) , it is just a matter of getting targeted. Mean hacker is like Women scorned (but that is just based on reading some of thier stuff on the web)
He also pretty much proved that it was again insecure, because "thanks to who he is (arrogance)" he was able to get into these accounts again. by more or less phishing :-)
@ekaj well they didnt crack, so we say "Black Hat" hackers?
Refering to Honan? He had suggestions from friends about data recovery, but ultimately it was because he logged into his DropBox on his wife's PC
I would still classify it as cracking because they are actively trying to take control of something, where hacking in my opinion (and the old definition) is more about modifying something to suite your needs or get the most out of it
i.e. the cracker has potential malicious intents while the hacker has improvement in mind
You know something is more secure, if you call them up and say "I lost my password/account , i will e-mail you a scan of my drivers licence , and my birth certificate, and here is the answer to my secret question, and this was my previous password" and they say TO BAD FOR YOU!
Anything less, it is possible for someone to ID theft you using the humans , doing the same thing you do to get the account back.
Well those are items you generally wouldn't want transferred over the web in an email =p What if someone forged a driver's license or edited it in photoshop?
So a few locations have e-mailed me a Password reset, when they got hacked , OOOOooooh they e-mailed it encrypted LOL. These machines that e-mailed me that reset e-mail, did not know i still was at that e-mail.
I have lost e-mails like yahoo from just being "inactive" so assume i had used a yahoo e-mail to originally sign up for Adobee. the machine sends my yahoo e-mail , that someone else has now aquired, to that person. Now remember it was encrypted :-) the link is all protected. only problem is I never got the e-mail, and they do not even know that. I never have allowed return reciepts
This person who now has that e-mail , or any single one of my e-mails, because comcast (ISP) would give all my best addresses away the moment i quit thier services. Just clicks on the magic password reset, and now has that account.
This comes After, these people (actually adobee) got hacked.
Now it could have been that they (not knowing where the e-mail would actually land) would have kept valuable info out of that. no it had my name in it besides, so assuming the e-mail itself was not the user name (it was) they also chose to put my actual name in too.
Do we make a law that says that all ISPs have to hold every e-mail address ever made out of the system, so the tons general information never go off to the wrong person, because some stupid machine still keeps pooping out garbage to them :-)
Data recovery, "The bill for all this? $1,690. Data doesn’t come cheap. I’ve been asked again and again what I’ve learned"
Uhh a backup would have been a whole heck of a lot cheaper?, then lazily leave it connected to your computer (or have it be raid 5) and your next blog will be about loosing it too.
Or extra special, have it be a NAS unit , connecting through the local network , and accidentally also accessable via the web, so the hackers can just go right for the meat.
@ekaj the cloud is not a backup, every TOU for the cloud services states that. Although most of the server stuff gets backed up better than your average users stuff.
well i have always thought that even getting to the servers , has multiple computer dependencies , but the intenet has amazing resilliance. Could be some day the black hat hackers will get ticked off by it :-) and shut it down.
I dont have sounds turned on on the browser by default, sorry, it causes me to reply direct more than nessisary.
if Ya ever hop onto a web page, and have some music start playing, at 50dB , where it is recorded at 140% , clipped and of some head bashing metal music ya tend to turn that off .
Hackers do not shut down the internet , only because they are presently using it :-)
. "Previously, when I had the option for ease-of-use versus security, I always went the easy route. I stored my credit cards with the merchants I used for faster transactions" I always prefer to not create a full account, but still provided my credit card info to them. Do i really believe that the transaction information was not stored? that only the huge databases of millions of peoples credit cards that was purposfully archived is the only way to access that information.
I was browsing through Microsoft's Best Practices for Securing Active Directory and saw the chart linked which includes some of the best practices included in the document, rated by importance.
At number 6 is "Prevent powerful accounts from being used on unauthorized systems." I am taking this t...
I heard that "the Interview" isnt even a movie worth watching ? all the reviews said it sucks. Much ado about nothing?
it will now be one of those situations where it is likely to be watched, just because of the hype. Or just to see what all the hype was about. so not only did sony, the president, and all the clowns that made it something that it isnt, but even the terrorists did a stupid thing by causing it to (eventually) have a much greater viewership.
"Like all other backup products a suitable Full (base) image must be created (and available) in order to create either a Differential or Incremental."
Now that explains it! I also didn't know that differential backups are for new and modified files while incremental deals only with modified files. Not really good backup method if there are new files. I wonder if both backups also monitor deleted files and make proper changes to destination backup?
The current notification sound for the Super User chat, while rather effective can often quite startling, especially when you're doing something else, or just not expecting it. Could we have some way of choosing a less.. THUDdy sound, or volume control for it, for systems with no per-program volu...
Yahoo changed it like 1 year ago or so and now when I start writing an email the font size is extremely tiny and I have to magnify the website in a browser settings each time and it drives me crazy...
I had trouble with an early boss in BL the presequel. He's a jumpy little idiot who has a whole load of electric attacks.
Did a side quest to get a electric sniper rifle, farmed mooks till I got my paws on some electric resistant armour, and managed to beat him. (after something like a dozen tries with other tactics)
" I have the same problem, my font size suddenly went to Large. I checked settings & it was still set at Small, I re set that but still comes up large when I type in text. The only way I can reduce it is to 'blue line' text & click on the font change icon at bottom of page. But it then reverts to Large for next email. Is this a Yahoo glitch?"
I'm trying to copy a file to a USB stick. There is no 'lock' on this stick.
here is df
$ df -h .
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sde1 1.9G 622M 1.3G 33% /media/lindenb/803C-078D
and df -i produces a strange outpout to me (0 everywhere)
$ df -i .
Filesystem ...
My Samsung N145+ Net book specs say that my Intel Atom Processor N455 supports Speed step technology. Is this something that can be activated or is it always working? Is it just a marketing ploy?
I'm not entirely happy with that close reason for this very reason.
See, the intent here was to handle the sorts of "here's my spec, please write code for me" questions that were already being closed - not expand closure to damn thousands of existing questions with good, useful answers. For now...
A broad troubleshooting question with no attempt at finding the issue is (a) not answerable without a lot of back-and-forth and (b) likely not useful to future readers.
On the other hand, a question about a basic topic is both immediately answerable (assuming reasonable scope) and will continue to be useful.
That's beneficial for the site and therefore a good question.
@DragonLord They tend to require a lot of prompting from comments for things to check/try/etc..
That's the nature of troubleshooting.
That's why a good troubleshooting question should have enough effort put in before asking the question to at least rule out what it's not, unless the problem itself really is very specific in the first place.
@DragonLord I find it rather bold-heavy.
Just at a glance.
@DragonLord I thought I had this conversation before!
Should we close questions where there appears to be no research effort? Whilst I'm aware people of all technical abilities come here, questions like LAN Connection Methods are just a joke - they could easily research this themselves!
Does this count as off topic as it's not defined in the scope....
Are you retards and moderator cocksuckers always like this? Go suck your own dick rather than randomly downvoting stuffs and deleting user's comments without any explanations.
Hello sons of bitches!!
Give me a fucking explanation for the disrespectful behavior of your mods! You can ban me you can do whatever you can. I will keep on doing this unless i get my fucking explanation. Yes I use foul words! It is how I live on this planet. Give me a fucking explanation why y...
When you open a text file in Notepad on Windows, you can move the source file to the recycle bin, or even permanently delete it. The same is true for WordPad. Why is it that Windows doesn't give you a warning, complaining about file being open in another program?
However, if the same file is ope...
Your cooling system is unable to adequately cool your CPU
The processor should not reach 100 °C even under load—that temperature is too hot. The processor will throttle automatically when its operating temperature is too high, then return to normal when temperatures drop to safe levels. This be...
@DragonLord No you covered it, and the thermal paste is not going to settle in and fix that, he is living in a fantasy, everyone can make minor errors and not have the right seating, or have to adjust a few more things.
Your answer was really nice, it would be sufficeient enough to allow them to eventually fix it. Some people might have told him he just flat out f---- up, and the test designed to see that, shows it as plain as the nose on his face :-)
If it wasnt throttling, and a sencor problem instead, then why did it Step? which is how it throttles.
The only other reasons it would step down like that, would be some battery technique when the battery gets low. or if in winders (say) the power profile cooling was set to "passive" instead of active.
Passive set in the "power options" , "advanced settings" , "processor power management" , "system cooling Policy" choices are active or passive. on passive it is really weird acting. The fans will not speed up, instead the processor will step down. . . but then given enough work to do, it will speed up the fans anyways. It is a strage alogrythm they got there.
Which just leaves, how it ends up going Soooo low. that is only likely to occur if there is (paste) airgaps, (which can be from steam pockets) , or really bad cooler seating, it is not a normal "just went too high" throttle, it is more like the throttle seen when a Plastic pin is not down on a cheap heat sink , when the whole cooling unit is not at all on properly.
now you just need to replace the keyboard with a mechanical laptop replacement board, at $300 , and get a PCI-E docking station $400 with 2 Huge GPUs $1600 :-)