That's true, I hadn't thought of that. I did run a program that examines the minidump files and even though logging was enabled there was no evidence of the crash. So I don't know what the hell happened. Let's hope it was just one of those Windows "things."
Yeah, I'm pretty anal about making images, once or twice a week to two different external drives. I learned the hard way a few years ago.
An option with the Macrium Boot Rescue is that you do NOT have to instantly RESTORE the system to a previous state,Good idea, I'll do that. Although, to amend just a bit, I ended up restoring an image from a couple of weeks back as I was having others problems (unexplained 100% CPU usage). I also eliminated some files and defragged the problem disc and ran Macrium again (the previous version). This time it worked. Lots of variables here, I know, but the solid part is that it was the first restore I've done with Macrium and it performed perfectly.
BEFORE the restore you can make an image backup.
That would have allowed you, if you wished, to resurrect your BSOD.
After imaging Trashed C:\ I have restored C:\ to the last good state.
I have then been able to mount the backup of trashed C:\ as virtual P:\,
and then use BestSync to compare C:\ with P:\ and locate all my final document revisions and installations that were not safely backed up.
The final documents I could copy, and the installations reminded me of what had seemed a good idea at the time.
Good to know, Alan. Thanks for the tip.
Nice tip. You can only do it with the WinPE Macrium rescue disk though.An option with the Macrium Boot Rescue is that you do NOT have to instantly RESTORE the system to a previous state,Good idea, I'll do that. Although, to amend just a bit, I ended up restoring an image from a couple of weeks back as I was having others problems (unexplained 100% CPU usage). I also eliminated some files and defragged the problem disc and ran Macrium again (the previous version). This time it worked. Lots of variables here, I know, but the solid part is that it was the first restore I've done with Macrium and it performed perfectly.
BEFORE the restore you can make an image backup.
That would have allowed you, if you wished, to resurrect your BSOD.
After imaging Trashed C:\ I have restored C:\ to the last good state.
I have then been able to mount the backup of trashed C:\ as virtual P:\,
and then use BestSync to compare C:\ with P:\ and locate all my final document revisions and installations that were not safely backed up.
The final documents I could copy, and the installations reminded me of what had seemed a good idea at the time.
I trust your opinion
I have steered clear of using the Linux disk where possible.
Before I used Macrium I used Acronis, which I found far far less user friendly.
I also found that the Acronis Rescue Disc was almost unusable for restoring a backup file saved on an NTFS partition,
Restoration was 2 or 3 times faster if I had saved the backup file on FAT32.
I rather suspect the Linux drivers were optimised for Linux preferred file systems and could not stomach Microsoft NTFS
I like to remind everybody that I have uploaded a WinPE .iso. If you download it and burn it to CD, you save a few hours of WAIK download. FileSwap.com : Macrium 5.0 WinPE.zip download free
1. No idea about the sign up procedure since am always signed up.
2. The filesize is 154MB. But there is indeed a problem with the download. I will fix that and get back.
I have uploaded the WinPE .iso to this link on Skydrive. This is an alternative to the Fileswap link when this does not function correctly.
I could download from the Fileswap link but it does not seem to work all the time.
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