Strange PC problem.

IMHO, yes. ;-)

Apart from the time spent fiddling. I might as well just clone the original again. It has all the latest MS updates too.

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Dave Plowman (News)
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Did it have all the updates on when you cloned it last time?

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GB

Yes. It original updates on auto. The cloned version was done several months ago and had done at least one update itself too.

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Dave Plowman (News)

It'll be interesting to see whether the new cloned version works okay, as it may have on it whatever updates have caused the problem. Good luck.

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GB

Create a windows bootable repair disk .. if it will boot off that you may be able to recover.

Also get a HDD check program from disk manufacturer - not a generic one .... (free download) and do a full disk check, may have a sector fault.

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Rick Hughes

Didn't work last time - so I'm not sure I can be even bothered to try it again now.

It's a new HD. Be a bit of a coincidence that the same thing happened on the last one.

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Dave Plowman (News)

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