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Mustaklaki

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I've spent the last 2 days trying to get my files from my cloned external hard-drive back onto my PC. Considering that there's ~725GB worth of files and it takes 11 hours to move them, it's been quite time consuming.

My internal 1TB hard-drive just does not boot up with my new motherboard and CPU, it just doesn't, tried everything. It gets a blue screen that flashes too fast for me to read. I've even tried taking pictures of it, but the quality was so bad that I can't read it.

System restoring allows the hard drive to boot perfectly.

With Macrium Reflect, it takes the clone and completely overwrites everything on the drive. Whatever is on the drive on a fresh system restore is needed to actually boot from the interal hard drive. After cloning over it is unable to boot again, same issue. That was a waste of 11 hours.

I've restored to factory settings for the second time, and I have no idea what to do next. Can I literally just copy+paste the files I need from my external hard drive onto my internal one? At least in this case, I can merge folders instead of completely overwriting everything, because using Macrium Reflect just will not work.

 
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Yes and no. Trying to do that is where it does not work. However, I cannot clone the files from my External Hard drive (Which is an exact copy of my Internal HD before the Motherboard and CPU change) to my internal HD without copying EVERYTHING over. It overwrites everything, but I need the fresh install to even start Windows 7. So... I'm not trying to use the older install of the OS, it just overwrites everything when I try to clone it back.
 
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Right. You can't clone only 'part of it' over to the new drive.
 
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So, what is the point of cloning then, if it doesn't actually allow you to get your files back?
I can access the stuff on my external hard-drive, but I don't want stuff of my external, I want it all on my internal.

I just need to know right now how to get my stuff back on a fresh install.
 
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It will take the entire "C" drive and move it to a new hard drive.
OS, applications, whatever else lives on that drive.

With a new CPU and motherboard, very often a fresh OS install is needed. And along with that, reinstall all your applications.
Your other files (music/movies/pictures) can be copied as needed.

So....you have a fresh install that works.
Connect the other drive, drill down to where your files are, and copy them over to the new drive.
Your applications will need to be reinstalled.
 
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Mustaklaki

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Bummer. This is going to take such a ridiculously long amount of time, but I guess I needed to clean my drive up a bit anyways. A lot of it was games I don't play anymore.

I read that a few things were supposed to happen, that you could System Repair and that would adapt the new mobo to the HD, but that didn't work properly. Something I didn't try was booting from the Mobo's driver disk, and I really wish I had. That may have been the issue.

 
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