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AdrianPierce
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Aug 21, 2025

Windows fixed itself

This issue took a week of my time and a hundred restarts.

One evening I started having issues with my Win10x64 desktop. Long story short, in an attempt to fix the problem I installed the 2004 update. Even more problems ensued, lockups, white icons and total instability. I noticed that my boot SSD was showing Red (low space warning). Knowing that low space and SSD's don't go together I began freeing up space and even deleted prior Win10 installations....so there was no backing out of 2004.

I ordered a larger SSD from Amazon and used MSconfig to boot to a diagnostics load and that allowed me to at least use Thunderbird and Edge while I awaited my new SSD.

SSD arrived. I tried Paragon Hard Disk manager as well as DiskGeniius to Migrate the OS but neither program worked. I located a WinPE ISO on the web and burnt that to DVD, booted it and ran it's included OS migration tool and that worked. Whew!!, I thought I was home free....Not!

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  • SilasDonovan's avatar
    SilasDonovan
    Iron Contributor

    You've been through an intense troubleshooting journey — kudos for sticking with it and sharing your experience. It sounds like you've encountered a combination of storage, OS, and driver issues, compounded by the challenges of migrating an OS to a new SSD during a critical time.

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