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  • Recreating Win10 system after hard drive failed - transfer chrome setti

    From Adrian Brentnall@21:1/5 to All on Sun Jul 3 07:51:26 2022
    Hi Folks

    So - while the solar PV lads were installing our new system, they
    managed to short neutral and earth on the mains fuseboard and tripped
    out the main house circuit-breaker.

    This pc was running at the time, and wasn't amused - and refused to boot afterwards.
    All attempts to restore the 'bootability' of the hard drive failed -
    so yesterday was a long session of using linux to copy the data off the
    failed hard drive, and install Win 10 on a new hard drive.

    Now going through the process of reinstalling programs..

    Write-ups on the web talk about copying/exporting the profile from the
    old installation of Chrome, and exporting a specific registry key to
    make this work - but the original system isn't able to be run to do this
    (the export..)

    Any ideas or links please?

    It wouldn't be the end of the world if it wasn't possible - but the old
    Chrome setup knew all of the passwords, and re-educating it is going to
    be a bit tedious!

    Thanks
    Adrian

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  • From Andy Burns@21:1/5 to Adrian Brentnall on Sun Jul 3 08:07:12 2022
    Adrian Brentnall wrote:

    Any ideas or links please?

    Did your old install of chrome sign-in to a google account to sync stuff? If so
    then sign the new one in and it ought to sync back ...

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  • From Adrian Brentnall@21:1/5 to Andy Burns on Sun Jul 3 08:19:51 2022
    On 03/07/2022 08:07, Andy Burns wrote:
    Adrian Brentnall wrote:

    Any ideas or links please?

    Did your old install of chrome sign-in to a google account to sync
    stuff?  If so then sign the new one in and it ought to sync back ...

    Sadly not...

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  • From GB@21:1/5 to Adrian Brentnall on Sun Jul 3 10:23:34 2022
    On 03/07/2022 08:19, Adrian Brentnall wrote:
    On 03/07/2022 08:07, Andy Burns wrote:
    Adrian Brentnall wrote:

    Any ideas or links please?

    Did your old install of chrome sign-in to a google account to sync
    stuff?  If so then sign the new one in and it ought to sync back ...

    Sadly not...



    Once you have finished extracting all the data from the old disc, why
    don't you simply do a windows repair installation on that drive? Chances
    are good that windows will repair itself, and all will be back to normal.

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  • From GB@21:1/5 to All on Sun Jul 3 10:30:57 2022
    On 03/07/2022 10:23, GB wrote:
    On 03/07/2022 08:19, Adrian Brentnall wrote:
    On 03/07/2022 08:07, Andy Burns wrote:
    Adrian Brentnall wrote:

    Any ideas or links please?

    Did your old install of chrome sign-in to a google account to sync
    stuff?  If so then sign the new one in and it ought to sync back ...

    Sadly not...



    Once you have finished extracting all the data from the old disc, why
    don't you simply do a windows repair installation on that drive? Chances
    are good that windows will repair itself, and all will be back to normal.



    Does this link help?

    https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/client-management/advanced-troubleshooting-boot-problems

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  • From Adrian Brentnall@21:1/5 to All on Sun Jul 3 10:48:35 2022
    On 03/07/2022 10:23, GB wrote:
    On 03/07/2022 08:19, Adrian Brentnall wrote:
    On 03/07/2022 08:07, Andy Burns wrote:
    Adrian Brentnall wrote:

    Any ideas or links please?

    Did your old install of chrome sign-in to a google account to sync
    stuff?  If so then sign the new one in and it ought to sync back ...

    Sadly not...



    Once you have finished extracting all the data from the old disc, why
    don't you simply do a windows repair installation on that drive? Chances
    are good that windows will repair itself, and all will be back to normal.



    Thanks - but this is the third time this particular hard drive has
    played silly bu&&ers with me - the last two times, various 'Lazarus'
    techniques were used to get it to wake up - but I think it's probably
    past saving...

    Linux could see the data on the disk (and salvage it) - but no utilities
    that I could find would make it bootable this time...

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