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HAA!! It lives. I woke up Wednesday and all I had was a blinking curser on my machine. I followed thru and got a WD Black 1T HD and figured if it didn't work might as well go with a SSD for C if I have t do it the hard way. Folks I had already downloaded the http://www.macrium.com/reflectfree.aspx free home version and created the USB boot before my OEM C died a few days ago. It took me while to get my PC to boot from changing the boot order to the DVD windows disc and get win to run. I held my breath and followed the clone steps and it FREAKIN WORKED! Now Im running on my new WD Black and I also got a new SSD Samsung 850 EVO 250 G while at frys. I figured if I had to do a total clean install might as well do it right.
I had page faults for a month and when it died the bios dell tests showed error 2000-0142 validation 3605
I am now back among the living on the new drive and the folks at Macrium are my hero's.
Now Im going to create an image to a WD green drive I bought by mistake first and put it away for the time being. Then Im going to figure out how to install the SSD as my C with operating system. Love this place. And if anyone can point to a thread or tutorial how to change to the SSD that would be icing on the cake.
Were it not for this software Id be doing a clean install and pulling my hair out.