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Evening All! I would like to ask for some help relating to a cloning issue, which is doing my head in! But first, some short background: I have a 12-year old Dell OptiPlex 990 SFF, purchased in 2011. Apart from a couple of years spent in storage, the machine has been left running literally 24/7...

My PC freezes suddenly and I have to switch off the socket. On the next reboot, I've received the post message "ASUS Anti-Surge was triggered to protect system from unstable power supply unit". I guess a power surge just happened in my house. The problem is, my OS wouldn't load. It stuck at the...