Update driver for each IN ERROR item in System devices
Update driver for each IN ERROR item in System devices
For the 1st time yesterday 07 dec 2019 I got a problem in cloning the system disk in Windows. The same exact problem that "
osxdude" and "
Thorsen" reported on 06 mar 2013 (posts
#1 and
#4 on page 1 above). What
WORKED IMMEDIATELY AND FULLY for me was:
Google "Windows 7 no more sound after cloning disk", 1st ranked search result:
Cloned SSD Has No Sound - Crucial.com"
that provides a clear, detailed, exact, verified, AND EFFECTIVELY WORKING, step-by-step guidance.
Be sure, in "
Control Panel > System devices", to COMPLETELY update the driver for EACH (audio-related OR NOT) device that has a yellow or red exclamation mark (in my case there were 2 named "
High Definition Audio Controller", and 2 others not specifically related to audio; yet updating just some of them didn't suffice to recover sound).
The present 4-page thread too was ranked high (#2) whence my updating it despite its 6-year age.
Explanation
It's OK for a start to think, as an explanation for the problem, of the disk ID change. However the Windows authentication process always has been, since its debut in Windows XP IIRC, smart enough to recognize that the system is the same after the user changed the whole motherboard with all its components, the CPU and some other related items; so changing just one disk, be it the system one, should cause no problem. In addition cloning the system disk is an operation mundane enough that handling the disk ID is probably done properly in Windows and all the cloning utilities (in my cases
Acronis True Image for Crucial,
ATI for Western Digital,
Paragon, and maybe
EaseUS IIRC).
The drive letter causes obviously no problem in most cases, since the user most often reboots with the new disk in the same place where the old disk had been, hence under the same drive letter (generally C:\).
The cause of the present bug may be in one of the changes introduced by Windows Update, since that problem was apparently rarely heard of until recent years (in my case I never had before 07 dec 2019 any problem in system disk cloning operations under various Windows versions, including a few ones under Windows 7).
None of the suggestions in the 4 pages above will work IMO, the closest to the Crucial WORKING solution being
at 1:58 in the video linked in
post #14 of 07 mar 2013 by "
Kaktussoft": "
Update Driver Software" for all devices in "
Sound, video and game controllers". This is indeed near, yet different, from the WORKING Crucial solution, which is doing this Update only for the "in error" devices, found NOT primarily in "
Sound, video and game controllers" but in "
System devices". That same video continues with other possibilities, while warning that they are probably most often NOT working (and they are more complicated). Similar comment for the next video linked, that also addresses
all items in "
Sound, video and game controllers" instead of
only "in error" items in "
System devices".
Versailles, Sun 08 Dec 2019 14:20:25 +0100, edited (turning title into link) 14:22:55
