GSWho Posted December 21, 2011 Member ID: 1435 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 10 Topic Count: 11 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 45 Content Per Day: 0.01 Reputation: 18 Achievement Points: 375 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 05/21/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: March 17 Birthday: 09/11/1964 Device: Windows Posted December 21, 2011 Normally I can fix just about anything on a computer. This problem has me stumped. HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! C (boot) drive started to get too full, so I foung me a new one and used "Acronis" to migrate (clone) all to the new drive. Now I have a problem with the Icons on the desk top. I put shortcuts to all the games and other important stuff on the desktop. When I finally got the computer to boot off of the new drive almost all of the Icons are the generic(no program pic). So far I do not believe that it is drive dependant( i have 4 drives in this comp). Please let me know what ya'll think. I know im going to loose sleep tonite. old drive: Maxtor 80gb IDE new : Maxtor 160gb SATA OS : Windows 7 ultimate Please let me know if u need more info. Thanks in advance. Merry Christmas! P.S. What is a good way to take a "snapshot" of a system build(items in comp) and post them to like a forum for others to see?
Blackbart Posted December 21, 2011 Member ID: 51 Group: Fallen Members Followers: 51 Topic Count: 342 Topics Per Day: 0.06 Content Count: 5974 Content Per Day: 1.04 Reputation: 3766 Achievement Points: 45818 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 09/01/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 27, 2021 Birthday: 06/26/1949 Posted December 21, 2011 Can't you go to START->programs then right click on program you want shortcut for and make a new shortcut icon?..Then you could just delete the generic ones... Awards
simplemod Posted December 21, 2011 Member ID: 623 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 21 Topic Count: 62 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 1072 Content Per Day: 0.19 Reputation: 417 Achievement Points: 7809 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 10/24/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: January 27, 2018 Birthday: 10/26/1982 Posted December 21, 2011 try what bart said for fixing icons. for posting a comp spec, go to: control panel/system on windows 7 it will show a list of the main stuff like cpu, ram, os, and i think on my desktop it even shows vid card, but it's not showing it on my laptop for some reason, so Im not positive on the gpu or not.
DEEJAYKEG Posted December 21, 2011 Member ID: 1238 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 35 Topic Count: 1207 Topics Per Day: 0.22 Content Count: 6083 Content Per Day: 1.10 Reputation: 4985 Achievement Points: 50728 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 11 Joined: 03/12/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: April 11, 2024 Posted December 21, 2011 I guess right-clicking the desktop and playing with the icon size doesn't help? For the program that displays/ saves off your rig's spec, how about the free offering from Piriform called Speccy? www.piriform.com Awards
Gump Posted December 21, 2011 Member ID: 1060 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 0 Topic Count: 9 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 206 Content Per Day: 0.04 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 1120 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 01/29/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: Never Birthday: 01/01/1970 Posted December 21, 2011 If creating new shortcuts doesn't help,you can try rebuilding the icon cache; www.winhelponline.com/blog/how-to-rebuild-the-icon-cache-in-windows-vista/
KaptCrunch Posted December 21, 2011 Member ID: 389 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 48 Topic Count: 315 Topics Per Day: 0.06 Content Count: 4867 Content Per Day: 0.85 Reputation: 4039 Achievement Points: 39385 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 49 Joined: 09/14/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: 5 hours ago Birthday: 01/01/1970 Device: Windows Posted December 21, 2011 or in control panel, add/remove programs repair the software Awards
GSWho Posted December 21, 2011 Member ID: 1435 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 10 Topic Count: 11 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 45 Content Per Day: 0.01 Reputation: 18 Achievement Points: 375 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 05/21/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: March 17 Birthday: 09/11/1964 Device: Windows Author Posted December 21, 2011 ok the control panel thingy didnt work. the only thing I can do from the program list is pin to task bar. Deejay... How do I get the pic of Speccy into a post like u did? The program is great
Pharticus Posted December 21, 2011 Member ID: 1320 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 7 Topic Count: 37 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 611 Content Per Day: 0.11 Reputation: 357 Achievement Points: 4498 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 04/10/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: November 22, 2024 Birthday: 01/14/1976 Device: Windows Posted December 21, 2011 GSWho Deejay... How do I get the pic of Speccy into a post like u did? The program is great You have to give GSWho some slack. We're not all that tech savvy in Idaho. We're still sending messages by jack rabbit. Awards
GSWho Posted December 21, 2011 Member ID: 1435 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 10 Topic Count: 11 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 45 Content Per Day: 0.01 Reputation: 18 Achievement Points: 375 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 05/21/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: March 17 Birthday: 09/11/1964 Device: Windows Author Posted December 21, 2011 I do have a reply for that last comment. ill keep it to myself. Pharticus is right though "Welcome to Idaho-set your clock back 20 years"
Cavey Posted December 21, 2011 Member ID: 92 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 42 Topic Count: 97 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 2241 Content Per Day: 0.39 Reputation: 606 Achievement Points: 13358 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: May 11, 2020 Birthday: 06/09/1977 Posted December 21, 2011 Some cloning software can be very picky about cloning to a hard drive of different size, though I don't know in your case as I've not used that program. You also didn't mention if you are are running 64bit OS. If so, it can have issues reproducing the paths for icons to 32bit programs. Possibly due to the varibles path of OS. So it could be trying to locate the .ico file with C:\program files\etc, whereas naturally your 32bit programs .ico files will be in c:\program files(x86)\etc. Easiest way to sort this is right click your shortcuts on your desktop, then choose properties. Then click change icon. Then you will probably get an error message that it can't find it in %program files% etc, so click browse. Browse to the correct location of the .exe add you should see an .ico file in the same location. Choose that, and bingo your done. Sometimes programs don'y have a separate .ico file, so choose the .exe instead, which should work on those occasions. Hope this helps
X-RayXI Posted December 21, 2011 Member ID: 133 Group: ++++ Senior Admin Followers: 77 Topic Count: 602 Topics Per Day: 0.11 Content Count: 6896 Content Per Day: 1.21 Reputation: 1376 Achievement Points: 44161 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 3 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: April 10 Birthday: 12/12/1971 Device: Windows Posted December 21, 2011 It surely depends of what version of Acronis. Mine works sweet and some builds are messy or buggy. I use the: "Acronis True Image Home 2010 Build 7046" for over 3/4 years now without problem. Awards
GSWho Posted December 21, 2011 Member ID: 1435 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 10 Topic Count: 11 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 45 Content Per Day: 0.01 Reputation: 18 Achievement Points: 375 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 05/21/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: March 17 Birthday: 09/11/1964 Device: Windows Author Posted December 21, 2011 I used the 2011 build. Cavey, Tryed that.. no luck thanks
Nutcutter Posted December 21, 2011 Member ID: 1540 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 13 Topic Count: 40 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 856 Content Per Day: 0.16 Reputation: 100 Achievement Points: 4812 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 06/28/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: May 6, 2017 Birthday: 09/20/1969 Posted December 21, 2011 I think it depends on how you "installed" the new drive and formatted it. Most likely windows gave it a drive letter, or if you had your other disks removed it changed the letter ordering. Do you have the original drive to put back in and have it back the way it was? Whenever I can I use a linux boot disk and clone one to the other. I have used this and it has given me no issues. After its done it will shut down your pc and you just swap cables with the original drive and away you go.
X-RayXI Posted December 21, 2011 Member ID: 133 Group: ++++ Senior Admin Followers: 77 Topic Count: 602 Topics Per Day: 0.11 Content Count: 6896 Content Per Day: 1.21 Reputation: 1376 Achievement Points: 44161 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 3 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: April 10 Birthday: 12/12/1971 Device: Windows Posted December 21, 2011 GSWho I used the 2011 build. Cavey, Tryed that.. no luck thanks You still have the old drive and running with no issues? You sure did the HDTune and CHKDSK before cloning? @Nutcutter, I never had to change drive letters in Windows by Acronis. For sure when to add a new drive or erased partition, the MBR assignment is only needed before the Acronis cloning. I just put the computer is sleep mode and add the (sata) drive and wait till it is reconized GSWho maybe try that build, I was mentioning? Awards
Masterlixx Posted December 22, 2011 Member ID: 285 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 3 Topic Count: 69 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 290 Content Per Day: 0.05 Reputation: 20 Achievement Points: 2204 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 09/06/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: April 7 Birthday: 11/04/1965 Device: Windows Posted December 22, 2011 same happe4nd to me using acronsi.. the problem for me was when i put the second drive in to copy the image of it rearanged some of the other drive letters.. i happned to have 5 drives in mine.. and steam was on drive g or something.. so th short cut did nto work anymore.. after doing the imaging and replacing the dirve theother drive letters still stayed what they were bumped up to.. i did waht htey said above.. just made a new shortcut. Awards
X-RayXI Posted December 22, 2011 Member ID: 133 Group: ++++ Senior Admin Followers: 77 Topic Count: 602 Topics Per Day: 0.11 Content Count: 6896 Content Per Day: 1.21 Reputation: 1376 Achievement Points: 44161 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 3 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: April 10 Birthday: 12/12/1971 Device: Windows Posted December 22, 2011 Back in the OL days when Ghost 5.0 (-ntil -ntic) worked as a charm. Plus copy sector by sector. I just use this 2010 build and hopefully you get it sorted. Awards
Nutcutter Posted December 22, 2011 Member ID: 1540 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 13 Topic Count: 40 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 856 Content Per Day: 0.16 Reputation: 100 Achievement Points: 4812 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 06/28/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: May 6, 2017 Birthday: 09/20/1969 Posted December 22, 2011 X-RayXI GSWho I used the 2011 build. Cavey, Tryed that.. no luck thanks You still have the old drive and running with no issues? You sure did the HDTune and CHKDSK before cloning? @Nutcutter, I never had to change drive letters in Windows by Acronis. For sure when to add a new drive or erased partition, the MBR assignment is only needed before the Acronis cloning. I just put the computer is sleep mode and add the (sata) drive and wait till it is reconized GSWho maybe try that build, I was mentioning? I am not sure either but cloning is cloning and that is not OS dependant. Same as doing a mirror, but sometimes windows knows more than you and adds info to the drive. Maybe not MBR is it system volume information? Also makes me wonder if the original disk had more than one partition?
X-RayXI Posted December 22, 2011 Member ID: 133 Group: ++++ Senior Admin Followers: 77 Topic Count: 602 Topics Per Day: 0.11 Content Count: 6896 Content Per Day: 1.21 Reputation: 1376 Achievement Points: 44161 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 3 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: April 10 Birthday: 12/12/1971 Device: Windows Posted December 22, 2011 Yes something like a signature and combined with the volume serial number. MBR = Master Boot Record. Just weird that Acronis didn't clone that well and was wondering about the FAT Table/MBR/Sectors to be fine or not. Awards
Nutcutter Posted December 22, 2011 Member ID: 1540 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 13 Topic Count: 40 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 856 Content Per Day: 0.16 Reputation: 100 Achievement Points: 4812 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 06/28/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: May 6, 2017 Birthday: 09/20/1969 Posted December 22, 2011 Not sure if you missed the link in my first post so I will add it again- Here If I remember it does all the disk checks before it clones the drive. And free for idiot (personal) use
GSWho Posted December 22, 2011 Member ID: 1435 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 10 Topic Count: 11 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 45 Content Per Day: 0.01 Reputation: 18 Achievement Points: 375 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 05/21/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: March 17 Birthday: 09/11/1964 Device: Windows Author Posted December 22, 2011 it was recommended by the new drive manufacturer.
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