Your CD player may be acting up or you may need to reburn it.
Make sure you select to burn it at 4x speed. Slower but much more accurate.
If you are using the Windows CD burner some people have had problems with it.
So you may need a third party burner.
I don't remember the names of the good free burning softwares at the moment.
Mike
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Right, each time I tried to burn to a cd it rejected saying faulty media, if i put the same cd back in it then burned but would not boot as above. I tried this on two cd's. I have just tried again on a Packard bell CD - RW and all seems fine, maybe the Tesco cd-r's are dodgy, seems doubtful though?
have you had problems with the tesco discs before? or successes?
If the disks work on a different computers CD drive you have a very picky CD drive on brand/type of CD it likes or the player has a problem.
Does the CD player read anything else? If not possibly a bad CD drive.
With most imaging software, if Windows can boot and one wants to restore for reasons other than Windows not starting, he can initiate the restore process from within Windows. The imaging software then will enter into DOS mode and rewrite C with the image. Paragon does it. Shadowprotect does it. Does not Macrium allow this? ( I do not use Macrium)
A restore CD is required only when Windows does not boot and you want to restore C.
In the present instance, the OP is only taking the first step in creating an image from within Windows and then restoring from within Windows. So IMO asking him to create a restore CD is premature and in fact can mislead the OP into believing that a restore CD is always required for a restore. Correct me if I am wrong.
If Macrium does not allow one to perform a restore initiating it from within a running Windows, then its a different story.
Nearly there I think, one last quetion for now
I am in the restore wizard and have got to the 'Choose partition to overwrite screen.
When I backed up the image I selected the whole of C: but now C: is just the 100Mb system resreved partition and my Primary is now called D:
Is this just a temporary mane that the recovery software calls it?
Ontheropes
I'm not sure. I just made the image of C. I don't know how yours will be lettered after. I'm not sure it will make a difference.???
PonmayilalIf Macrium does not allow one to perform a restore initiating it from within a running Windows, then its a different story.
Only from CD.
Mickey Megabyte. Have any input on Ontheropes drive letters?
Ponmayial
It seems as though Macrium can only restore from the CD at least in the freeware version.
I have tried the trial of Acronis and this worked perfectly though it was a free 14 day trial and is payware. I do not mind paying for good software if I need to but I have read a lot of bad reviews on Acronis. I will take a look at Paragon and Shadowprotect.
I have also had Robocopy mentioned which I believe is free with Win 7? though as yet I have not found it.
Paragon and Macrium are tops on the forum. Either one.
I started with Macrium and like it but Paragon may be more to your liking. Like a lot of things some prefer one over another.
Stay away from Robo and Shadowcopy.
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