Macrium 5.0 WinPE iso problem


  1. netadict
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    Windows 7 Professional 32 bit
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    Macrium 5.0 WinPE iso problem


    Macrium 5.0 WinPE.iso is an updated 64 bit recscue CD for Macrium Reflect

    I needed to restore a HD image from my portable USB HD so I booted my 64 bit laptop with this CD, it told me that it required a driver for the USB port to work and asked for the location that it should scan to look for the driver. I was really desperate so I pointed the app to the C drive. After 10 minutes or more of scanning, it located the required driver and worked flawlessly!!

    A Windows 7 64 bit driver working on a Win PE is that crazy or what?

    I was lucky this time that my hard disk was in tact and could use it to load the driver. If the hard disk had a roblem, I would have been in a bind


    I don't trust CD-R media as after some time the data on it evaporates so I'd like to put this iso on a flash drive. How do I do that?
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  3. kado897
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    Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit Service Pack 1
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    Hi netadict. try this tutorial. MACRIUM REFLECT - Create Bootable Rescue USB Drive. It is for the Linux disk but if you substitute the WinPE disk it will work.
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  4. netadict
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    Thank you kado897 for the app

    It worked flawlessly in converting iso to USB

    *I plugged in my newly created rescue flash drive into a usb port and rebooted
    Macriu started but did not "see" my portable usb HD

    *trial2
    plugged in the rescue flash drive into a usb port and the port hd ino another usb port and restarted
    hd was recognised

    just to check I tried trail 2 again
    this time the usb hd was not seen


    WHY THE INCONSISTENCY?

    Macrium Reflect aside, I have a partition D on my internal hard disk by the name of restore but I can't access it through my computer or explorer

    Is there a way whereby I can use any software to image my C drive on the D partition?
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  6. kado897
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    I always find it better with USB devices at boot to power everything off and boot from there.
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  7. netadict
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    so you mean I plug in my port USB HD first before booting?
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  8. kado897
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    Yes that's right. I don't know how well WinPE handles plug and play so I make sure that the BIOS recognizes the disk before booting from the flash drive. In my case that is easy as it offers the USB HDD as a boot option.
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  10. vindab
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    windows 7 ultimate x64
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    hi guys, i'm very new to this image restore stuff.
    i recently sold out my old pc (intel i3and intel dh55tc), and bought a new one (i5 and dz68db).
    before selling i made an macrium image of system drive (320 gb), which i restored on new hdd (320 gb), i could successfully restore the system drive (100 mb) and C: drive as well.
    but after restarting pc won't boot, and asking me to launch repair options. i attempted repair option but it didn't help, i tried restoring image two/three times, but facing some problem and now stuck in no booting situation.
    anybody had such problem?
    any help?
    thanks and regards in advance.
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