Yes Bob, I will be interested to hear what the experts feel was the cause of this problem but, if I had to put money on it, I would say it was deleting the "MaxPluginsToScan.txt" that solved it.

The funny thing is that as far as Band-in-a-Box was concerned, it was running fine for three weeks when I got it back with the new hard drive, so I do not know what caused the "MaxPluginsToScan.txt", or whatever, problem to emerge. As I said, the only thing I could think of was a Windows 10 update, but that is just guessing. Also it was a previous big Windows 10 update that caused my computer to crash, although Microsoft Help said that it was due to a fault on my hard drive. Who knows what was the real problem? Everyone wants to blame everyone else and sell you the most expensive solution to the problem.

It does seem that I wasted my money on jbridge but I still have not managed to download, decompress and install due to missing programs like winzip that went with the old hard drive. Anyway it does not seem that jbridge is necessary because the problem was solved. Hopefully.

So Bob, I am very interested to know your recommendation for the best method of cloning a whole hard drive?

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