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Using Onyx as a basis, what changes would you propose for a system
which

A) is primarily designed to handle images such as the — at least
— 11 TB-worth of pix right now on various HDs including many
duplicates to make sure I can survive the death of one or more of the
backup drives which are physically swapped in and out. But mostly NOT
connected except when needed. But I like to be able to swap them in and
out two or three at a time for updating.

B) has and is used by photography applications such as Adobe
Photoshop/Elements/Light room to improve/modify etc

C) plus all the steps of scanning (Epson V800 Photo scanner, Silverfast,
Apple 11pro phone )

And importing/exporting scans on DVDs, hard drives, internet etc

And thousands more to go

Regarding Norton. I,too, used Norton but quickly lost interest after Symantec took over. Now I know why it “smelled” wrong to me.
But I have a similar question: Why isn’t Zone Alarm Extreme Security rated?

Learn something all the time. Just a quibble, but my military time (60s-80s) was centered around commcenters not general correspondence.

Ah, Scott, we get to the same place (YYYYMMDD) but in NATO all the militaries use YYYYMMDD or a riff on that (YYYY-MM-DD or YYYY/MM/DD) for official dating. Also it is the common usage in all or at least most for the Nordic countries. Spelling out first three letters of months doesn’t work either because of different languages.
Periods get you into trouble with many operating systems. Heck, I remember well when even spaces would cause MS OSes to choke.

Just run all the number together. Save space. All my photo files (70K+) start with the date in NATO and US military format: YYYYMMDD. Works well for retrieval

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“If you already have a digital entitlement (you upgraded earlier and reverted) then you can install from scratch using the MS ISO.”

Okay. Now I still have an option.
How would I go about getting WIN10 on a fresh SSD? Do I physically install it in the computer and then run the ISO from a thumb drive or DVD? How would WIN know which OS is which?
Once I get that step done, any sage advice on untangling the bits and pieces of WIN 7 I have on other drives?

Excellent.

Ethernet, wired, is also immensely more secure than exclusively using wireless transmissions, especially from a fixed site (more time for nosey neighbors or worse to crack your setup). Besides, a wired system throughout your house or building or office spaces offers a huge advantage in networking and in control of your network. By all accounts, wireless routers on the shelf for sale probably cannot exceed 100 mbps in actual use. Most are rated for less than that speed as their best throughput. Wired ethernet (cat5 & cat6 cabling) will get network traffic up to nearly 1000 mbps.

I use ACRONIS True Image 2014 as my backup software. I has an imaging capability + backup so that the whole drive(s) can be placed on various computers, not only WIN to WIN but also WIN to APPLE and VICE VERSA. Of course you need the software.

Exactly my problem! Bummer.

I guess that’s the trick. I got my key directly from Microsoft. And it works in English on my machine!

Glad to know it is working for someone!

Thought I would give it a try with my self-built WIN 7 Pro x64 which has a product key from Microsoft. I get an error message saying that my choice of language (English) is not supported. I then went to the support site — gave up waiting after 20 minutes.

I used Acronis to make an image of a functioning newly minted PC to load the image on a second almost identical PC. It took some work with Customer Support but it did it! Saved me gobs of time and got me around a problem I had dueling video drivers.

The basic answer is that any drive with my data on it has a copy or, better, a back up. And a copy of the backup is in a safe deposit box 20 miles inland from my house near the Gulf Coast in Florida. Until a few years ago I kept them in a bank even nearer to the water than my house which finally got me thinking.
What systems do I have?
I have two PCs, both running WIN 7 Pro x64 with 32 GB of RAM. They are married via an IOGEAR KVM switch to two high def 9×16 monitors. Through the switch I can instantly jump from one PC to the other while one or both is/are chunking away on their own thing. Through the home network, they share a printer and a scanner, plus I have mapped certain folders on each machine to share with the other, meaning I don’t have to do anything fancy to get data to and from.
One PC has four physical hard drives plus two SSDs (one for C: and one for D: which contains database catalogs via a Marvel controller). The other has two hard drives plus a boot SSD. Each machine has one external drive and one BlackX station, each station has space for two HDs. Makes it real easy to just get one naked drive into the safe deposit box from each macine. Then there are two NASes for presence on-line. And the other odd bits and pieces. I use Acronis for backups and images.