Macrium Reflect Free ...I'm in :-)

That is normal. The MFT (master file table) is sitting high up in the partition and Disk Management cannot move it. If you want to shrink more, you have to use the bootable CD of Partition Wizard. That can move the MFT.

Ok whs, I will see that later thanks!

About the restore process..!
I got this message (please see pic) after booting from the DVD, and I pressed NO!
Went to the main Macrium Restore screen and I choosed the image I wanted to restore and I draged to the partition I had created before! Et voilá, restore complete and sucesseful (The folders I removed from the partition were there after the restore :)).

One thing I found (confirmed!) is that the USB 3.0 do not work for the restore process, only for the backup.

Thanks a lot for all this :).

Is this the expected behavior right?

Now let me see what is happening with my ssd !

Cheers,
paulo

paulobao said:

Golden, thanks for the quick answers and the portuguese words too .
Thanks richc46 for the aditional tip :).
Thanks for the explanation Kaktussoft.

About your tip "Test the rescue CD, now, make sure it works"...(sorry I'm a newbie) how can I do that? Any sugestion? This CD only works to my computer right? I've finished to install Macrium in my desktop at work too!

Cheers,
paulo

This rescue CD/DVD has:
standard usb and ide and sata drivers. Same as win7 install dvd.
so should work on any computer. Unless special raid drivers are needed

Look at your restore screen, click on restore upper left. You have the choice of the drive to choose from and all the images.

With Macrium 5.0.4995 (and later), the USB3 is supposed to work. I have not yet been able to test that because my systems here in Germany have no USB3. When I am back in FL in Nov., I'll check it out.

Maybe someone else who has USB3 could clarify.

paulobao said:

Hi,

After pressing NO, no USB was installed and I could restore from a USB 2.0 external hdd! But if I use a hdd connected to a USB 3.0 I cannot see it ans, of course, cannot restore from/to it!

I do not know if that message (picture) is normal or not, but in my system it appears in all the experiments I did!

Is any possibility to use USB 3.0 for the restore?

paulo

usb3.0 is possible if you use macrium 5 and use the winpe rescue disk (not linux)