Image your system with free Macrium


  1. Posts : 17
    Windows 7 x64 Home Premium
       #1321

    Kaktussoft said:
    How did you install win7 without keyboard/mouse?
    The mouse/keyboard work perfectly in the BIOS/UEFI environment, Windows environment and they worked fine during the installation of Windows (booted from Win7 SP1 disk). It's only the Macrium disk that has this problem

    Kaktussoft said:
    If you attach an external disk or flash disk to same usb2.0 port... does macrium see it?
    How could I know that if i can't navigate the rescue media?

    Kaktussoft said:
    Try machine's other usb2 ports
    There are only four, and they're all on the chipset's controller. None of them work.

    When I boot from the disk, I get to the 'desktop' where I see a message saying I might need to install network (N/A for my purposes) and USB (these will be for the motherboards USB 3.0 controller which I don't need). The mouse doesn't work, the keyboard doesn't work, and all I can do is hard-reset the PC.
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  2. Posts : 16,129
    7 X64
       #1322

    Try making your macrium winpe with this: https://www.dropbox.com/s/21wh1sm9z4...EALLx64v16.zip

    Just unzip it exactly like this:

    Image your system with free Macrium-peallv16-zip.jpg

    Then rt click and run as admin on the .cmd file:

    Image your system with free Macrium-peallv16-run.jpg

    It will ask if you want to d/l a couple of tiny things to include. e.g. Recuva, not required, you can just say no to any questions if you like. Macrium will be included automatically.
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  3. whs
    Posts : 26,210
    Vista, Windows7, Mint Mate, Zorin, Windows 8
    Thread Starter
       #1323

    You can try with my WinPE which works on many systems and with wired and wireless mices. Download the .iso from here and burn it to CD.
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  4. Posts : 161
    Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit
       #1324

    Mang Nux,

    I hope you get it resolved. As whs suggested, try that link if you haven't done that yet. I recall having some difficulties creating the WinPE CD. It took 2-3 attempts but I was able to create a working bootable CD.

    It was a little confusing for me at first as I was getting a query to load drivers during the ISO setup dialog in Macrium Reflect (free version). It loaded all but 1 driver for my Laptop, an Ethernet Adapter driver indicated that it didn't load but I don't need that to boot from the CD and to process clones or images.

    I was able to create the CD from the ISO setup dialog on my Mom's older XP Desktop PC without any "drivers not loaded" dialog's and the CD tested ok. I've processed a couple of clones and an image on Mom's PC using the boot CD.

    Another member here that's been using Macrium (free ver) for years helped me understand this "drivers not loaded" dialog box when booting to the CD. He mentioned that the message isn't uncommon to see when booting the CD.

    I recall that I selected WinPE 3.0 instead of the latest version which, if I recall, is 4.0 or similar.

    When I tried to setup the media-creation dialog with the latest WinPE version I had problems so I used the ealier PE version which worked on my Desktop and Laptop PC's.
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  5. whs
    Posts : 26,210
    Vista, Windows7, Mint Mate, Zorin, Windows 8
    Thread Starter
       #1325

    I recall that I selected WinPE 3.0 instead of the latest version which, if I recall, is 4.0 or similar
    The latest verion is 5 - that's what is on my Skydrive (5.2)
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  6. Posts : 161
    Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit
       #1326

    whs said:
    I recall that I selected WinPE 3.0 instead of the latest version which, if I recall, is 4.0 or similar
    The latest verion is 5 - that's what is on my Skydrive (5.2)
    Thanks, I was going by memory which isn't near as good as my PC's RAM :).
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  7. Posts : 17
    Windows 7 x64 Home Premium
       #1327

    The macrium site said that 3.1 is based on Windows 7 and 4.0 is based on 8. I'm using Windows 7 x64, so I thought that 3.1 was the one I should use (when I first burned it through Macrium, it automatically selected 3.1, so that reinforced my suspicion). Is that wrong, or doesn't it matter?

    Anyway, I tried the image you linked linked whs, but the same problem occurs. There's no more message about drivers, but the mouse and keyboard are still completely dead. I even tried a different keyboard and nothing. The keyboard is lit up right until I get to the 'desktop' of the rescue media, then all the lEDs go out.

    Should I still try SIW2's method even though the other one failed?

    I'm using a UEFI BIOS and Windows 7 is installed in UEFI mode with GPT formatting. I don't suppose the linux based rescue media supports UEFI booting?

    The HDD light is constantly flashing mildly, so I hope it doesn't risk my data when I have to reset the system to get out of the rescue media every time.
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  8. Posts : 24,479
    Windows 7 Ultimate X64 SP1
       #1328

    You can give the 4.0 version a go, I thought it was for a UEFI install. I could never boot it.
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  9. whs
    Posts : 26,210
    Vista, Windows7, Mint Mate, Zorin, Windows 8
    Thread Starter
       #1329

    Don't mess with the Linux CD. Did you download the .iso from my Skydrive.

    There is no restrictions using version 4 or 5. They work in 7 and 8 alike. And the recovery CD should not be effected by UEFI - at least I think so.
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  10. Posts : 17
    Windows 7 x64 Home Premium
       #1330

    whs said:
    Don't mess with the Linux CD. Did you download the .iso from my Skydrive.
    Yes, as I mentioned in my last post. Same problem with unusable M/K. Since your ISO appeared to include drivers for my USB 3.0 controller (no warning message), I even tried it a second time with everything connected to USB 3.0 ports, but again, no luck.
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