ToneStar

1. Make an image backup of my C: drive while it is prestine on a fresh install of Windows 11, I have a 2 TB m.2 drive and want to make a clone/image of it that I can store on my 14TB D: drive 2. Use a bootable USB tool and just load that image onto the C drive again from the larger D drive where I save the images to. I am out of touch with this stuff currently I used to be more in tune with it before UEFI back in the Norton Ghost days using CDs/DVDs to restore your drive. If anyone could recommend a free solution or near free solution for doing this, I don't think the built in windows 1 has quite the capabilities I am looking for.

I just bought a 14700K CPU Z790 ASROCK Riptide Wifi motherboard it has 4 pci.e 4.0 m.2 slots and 1 5.0 m.2 slot AMD 7800XT GPU If I put 4 nvme drives in the 4 pci 4.0 slots will it take up any of the lanes for the GPU and slow it to 8x? I have a couple of old m.2 drives a 500gb and 1tb I want to use for primocache on my 14tb HDs or to hold games Then for my C: I have a 2tb 4.0 drive and then I also have a 1tb 4.0 I use to hold games and commonly accessed files. Just wondering if there is any harm in having those 2 extra 3.0 NVME drives in the system performance wise for gaming.

That is not what is happening. What I am referring to is more like CPU/GPU stability, what I am saying is if you restart a massive transfer after it has been stop it is a fucking nightmare.

Not the issue, have you copied a terabyte of files in 1 sitting? Its always been an issue in windows, and windows never gets anywhere near the transfer rates of any drive and never has.

I am copying 1 pcie 4.0 super fast nvme drive to another as well and it gets like 5-50MBS instead of 100-7000

Will Microsoft ever get this right? Why is it nearly impossible to copy massive amounts of files in windows, especially if you are trying to copy from a computer that is having issues or crashes, then you have to start all over with it slowly indexing everything and whenever there are files present already in a directory it is a nightmare. I am also using Tera copy and that thing is freezing and not copying when trying to copy to a folder that already had half the files copied to it as well.

Thanks for the reply, I appreciate it.

I haven't kept up with things the last 2-3 years, I bought parts to upgrade to an intel 14700k and ASRock Z790 Riptide motherboard, I have a corsair hx1000i that is about 5-6 years old are all the pins/cables the same on the newer motherboards and requirements? Just want to make sure I don't need a new PSU. I have a 7800xt graphics card and a 5900x x570 currently.

FYI just a little background my first computer was a 486 33mhz packard bell, then my 2nd computer I built from parts was a pentium 200, canopus voodoo 1, ati 8mb card, abit motherboard. You could daisy chain my current computer all the way back to that one I never completely rebuilt it without keeping at least 1 or 2 parts from the previous build. Currently have a 5900x, 3080 fe, fractal define s2, corsair aio, 64 gigs of ddr3700, 2 1tb nvme drives and a bunch of normal hard drives. I think I liked the the core 2 duo and athlon x2 era the best, easiest to work on, lighter aluminum cases, still had easy stuff like no DOS to install windows and Sata and early stages of SSD.

Some things are a lot better of course like NVME drives USB C. Just not a fan of how important aesthetics are now, motherboards are another thing the prices are getting ridiculous. And I do have RGB lighting, Cable management etc on my computer, I kind of hate working on it though cause all the cables being run through the back and tied off, have to take off both panels to do much, mess with both sides, getting the power supply out is about impossible even though its modular. 1 thing that had some logic to it back in the day was having a network card and sound card so that every motherboard you bought didn't have the cost of that added to it. You could upgrade 1-2 motherboard / cpus before needing to change those out possibly saving some.

Is it just me or were the way computers used to be made much easier. How many people come over and look inside your computer to see all the pretty lights and glass window to look at all the cool components, no one gives a shit. I feel like guys like Jays2cents caused this extra bs with their special PC builds. 1. Cases way too heavy, why are we putting glass on them. 2. Cable management is such a waste of time and makes the computer about 5x more annoying to work on, every cable must be hidden and run through the back, tied off etc. 3. RGB lighting just causes more hardware issues, maintenance, crashes etc to make the computer look pretty on the inside. 4. Custom water cooling systems, completely unnecessary and provide 0 real benefits just making a maintenance pain in the ass. 5. Nvidia GPUs especially are way too power hungry and run way too close to the edge, catching computers on fire, and just a real lack of stability that computers had 10 plus years ago.

Got it finally. So a little piece of plastic was under the button blocking the button from being pressed far enough. I had to pry the button open with a thin knife then push 1 of the latches with another knife

Have a crappy quality cable that got stuck in my 49 inch monoprice monitor. The button doesn't seem to work. Was thinking of trying to break apart the cable but the way the connector is wrapped with metal on display port seems like I could damage thr monitor. It works fine but want to sell the monitor.

Card still works perfect now that I eliminated this trash cable not a single crash since changing it out.

Spooky looking back at your reply to my thread you look kind of bad now considering all the issues Nvidia is having with the new cables on the 4000 series. The 3000 series Y adapter cable sucks too.