The fact Numa shows up is a good sign as far as I can tell. You can read about Numa here:
Non-uniform memory access - Wikipedia
As far as cloning goes, there are many different pieces of software to do it. Everyone has their own preference. I used to use a Chinese made cloning software called AOMEI Backupper. Don't let the fact it's Chinese made scare you. I scan the living crap out of my computer looking for all sorts of things including alternative data streams and find nothing. Plus, sometimes I monitor what is written, deleted and modified on the hard drive and monitor the NIC for inbound and outbound traffic. I've detected no shenanigans. I also scan all downloads at Virus Total.
What I liked about AMOEI Backupper is that it was a straight forward process to clone a drive. You just chose your source (C drive), and your destination (your USB external drive or internal SATA connected drive). Hit clone and away you go. In AOMEI you can create two different types bootable media so that you have a means by which boot the computer and to clone back if you have a boot issue or what ever with the internal drive. The first is a Windows PE image that can be written to USB or a Linux live image that can be written to USB. I chose the Linux option as that works for me. I used AOMEI to clone my Dell 910 netbook. I booted the Dell with the Linux image and then after I see it boot immediately insert the other USB drive for the clone. If I had both USB drives in the computer at the same time, for some reason I could boot the Linux live OS from USB. Once the Linux OS was booted with AOMEI I cloned the internal netbook drive to USB and that was it. I even cloned back to my netbook using the same method. These netbooks use a flash HDD with a very finite write level. And despite my best efforts to reduce writes to the drive with turning off the page file, increasing RAM, etc every three years or so I have to buy a new flash HDD for the netbook on eBay. I bought two this time to have one left over in case it happens again. Never the less, a simple clone right back to the internal HDD and everything is like nothing ever changed. Speaking of which, I'm due for another clone.
This netbook is a 24/7 server-like computer. It sits in the kitchen connected to a USB dial-up modem connected to the phone line and a program runs called PhoneTray that can block or accept calls as well as give me different ring tones out of the computer for who ever is calling. In addition to that I use Nomorobo which further cuts down and the spam calls. Yes, I roll a landline for reasons. My cell phone is not my only phone choice. This netbook also has a small FTP server. I can use that and an FTP App on my phone called AndFTP to transfer photos and what not between my phone and computer's using the WinSCP FTP program. Some may use Filezilla. Problem with Filezilla is that you MUST configure it to use binary mode otherwise you'll mess up images on your server like a website or whatever. With WinSCP it's binary mode out of the box and has many useful features like browsing an Amazon AWS S3 bucket. Although that is slow. Well, FTP is very slow as well. Like to go WebDAV one day. I want to replace the netbook with a nettop, but they're about $200 on eBay and I'm not in the market for that right now, but would be a vast improvement over what I got now.
I mentioned I used to use AOMEI Backupper. Now I can't because I FDE (Full Disk Encryption) my computers so a special cloning software must be used if FDE is used. I found that the free cloning software called Clonezilla accomplishes this task of cloning an encrypted computer. I even used Clonezilla recently and before that to clone back to a HDD from my USB external HDD. It worked great to transfer my 500 GB SSD to my new 1 TB SSD. Though, I had to go into disk management and extend the drive size afterwards. Wasn't hard to do at all.
Another popular cloning software is Macrium Reflect. I haven't used that in years though.
When I make a 1:1 clone of a drive I store the external HDD in a sandwich bag and that is kept in a $35 fireproof safe along with data backups stored on Blu-ray and DVD/RW. If items are stored in a fireproof safe, if there is a fire the contents inside can get moist, thus a sandwich bag. Only the optical media serves as yet another backup source beyond the drive clone. It must because I use Keepass for my passwords and you have to backup its database yourself. Every time I add to its database I back that up to no more than eight locations. Same with my website backups. Those too are backed up to computers, Blue-ray and DVD/RW. My database isn't massive right now so I can do that. If it is massive they do sell 100 GB Blu-rays and you can split the database file with Gsplit3. I use Gsplit3 now to get around max file uploads to my free cloud plan. LOL Their max file upload for free accounts is 250 MB, but if I strip the data into four parts at 150MB each and put all that in a folder, I then upload the folder using the upload folder option and no issues, I still remain a free plan user. LOL
Anyway, you should be fine now that you edited the boot code. Now you have learned a very important lesson in which you MUST verify what you read on the Internet to be true or not. In my findings there is a lot of conjecture out there. Perfect example of this was when I once read on a forum (not this one) someone said you want a SD card with a low class number for higher speed. Well, I was like that can't be right. Sure enough after doing more research I think it was Stack Exchange were I learned a higher class yields a faster SD card speed for MB/s. Right now I believe that it's class 10. Not sure if they have anything faster than that right now or not. I needed to know this because I have a mini camera that uses a SD card for storage. And of course if you have a wireless WIFI camera at your house or dash cam you'll want to use a class 10 SD card as well.
Where was it that someone told you to set the CPU code to 0? Was it Reddit by chance? There's a lot of stupid crap on that website. I find the Stack Exchange and its nomenclature of subjects to be a bit more promising when it comes to knowing what is what. But not always.
