Akari

Removable battery and SD without compromising build quality.

I'm currently planning a budget gaming rig for a young friend of mine. He's 15/16 years old and before this only played on his 360, and the budget is approximately £350 GB, with the absolute maximum being £400. The main aim of this build is to get a good base platform which can play modern-ish games at reasonable settings and then upgrade with a dedicated gpu at a later date when needed. Micro ATX form factor for smaller size to fit nicely in his room with future expansion possibilities. Noise levels can be fixed after the fact, if necessary. Only one 1080p monitor is to be used, with no upgrade plans for the foreseeable future. Peripherals, such as keyboards and mice, Windows, and storage HDDs do not need to be considered. Point no 5 is irrelevant, other than he wants something better than his 360 and his laptop won't cut it. Current parts list (with prices from Amazon UK): AMD A10 7850K Black Edition (£124.99) G-Skill 8GB Ripjaws X DDR3 2133 Dual Kit (£63) MSI A88XM-E45 (£44) Corsair Builder Series CX 430 Watt (£31.46) Samsung 840 EVO 120GB 2.5 (£55.85) Silverstone SST-PS08B (£37.75) Total: £357.05

Somewhat, but I kept just getting "Incorrect Parameter" errors when I tried to restore, even after trying to copy the system reserved partition with a Linux live CD. Given up for now and resigned myself to reinstalling, but, if anyone has any bright ideas, the system image is still there.

My SSD (Crucial M4) is dying. Windows is coming up with warnings and it fails to boot most, but thankfully not all, of the time. I've phoned up Crucial and they told me to send the drive to them, but then I'll be without a boot drive. Coincidentally, I made a full image backup of that drive just a few days beforehand, and so I want to restore from it, as I don't trust just cloning the drive in it's current state. I have a spare HDD that's okay to format, and I'm fine living without an SSD for a week or two, but, when I tried to restore the image from a fresh install on my HDD, it restored the SSD instead! How can I get it to restore properly so I don't have to waste hours setting everything up from scratch?