I've been researching the story of Noah's Ark. What many people don't realise is that there were two arks. The second contained several levels and was used to save the freshwater fish.
It was known as the multi-story carp ark.
The switch at the back is not designed to be turned on an off repeatedly, it's not a conventional on/off switch, it's an isolation switch designed to be used on those rare occasions when all power to the PC must be removed. TBH I don't know why people shutdown a PC at all, I never have since...
Personally I use Macrium Reflect free, and have done for many many years. Macrium no longer offer the free version but you can still get it at https://m.majorgeeks.com/files/details/macrium_reflect_free_edition.html.
Please make the Dropbox file public so that I don't have to request access.
One important question: @SpyderTracks asked whether you can boot the Windows installation media?
You'll need another PC/laptop or a friend's PC/laptop to make a bootable USB drive containing the Windows installation...
I agree with a lot of what you said there @SpyderTracks but I'm not going to open this can of worms again. Just for the record though, I'm not 'pandering to Intel' because the same applies to AMD CPUs. I think we have to agree to disagree.
I know that @SpyderTracks is not going to agree with me on this because we've been down this road before. What PCS is saying here about stability is exactly what I was talking about elsewhere on these fora regarding the maximum RAM speed that any CPU is guaranteed to support.
If you check the...