Kat wrote on Oct 16
th, 2016 at 8:44pm:
I do my system backups with Easeus backup.
I can then simply right-click on them and select 'Mount'.
And, done. It appears as an additional drive.
I can then view, copy, restore files etc., more or less at will.
It's now academic.
I switched off the PC last night while it was functioning perfectly. Have got up this morning to find that the PC has crashed during the night with it switched off ...
...
Then went through a bewildering list of 'Repair Options' ... with every last one of them proving to be stiff bullshit 6 foot tall.
System Restore? Nope.
Macrium Repair Disc? Nope.
Windows 10 Automatic Repair? Nope.
Accessed the Cloned copy in the external hard drive. No joy.
Result? This PC that I bought only 3 weeks ago is back to the shop again for the third time. That's not a typo. For the third time in 3 weeks. He had to replace the USB drive because it wasn't functioning properly. Then he had to replace the CD/DVD burner because it wasn't working.
And now none of the Auto-Repair built-in software is working.
I'm not hard to please. I pay good cash for new PCs to take home with the expectation that they've been checked thoroughly at point of manufacture and point of sales.
The one silver-lining is that I don't get charged for the repairs to these 'brand new, off the shelf, 'another-happy-customer' pieces of electronic garbage.
(I'm using the second of my two backup computers).