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Yes, that was what I was referring to. Very useful but you still need to create a DVD or USB in case of a drive failure.
Yes, that was what I was referring to. Very useful but you still need to create a DVD or USB in case of a drive failure.
WIN7 MBR is already on external disk I assume? WIN7 Bootsector is already the bootsector of partition I assume.
- Make the partition a primary NTFS partition. Or make a new primary NTFS partition
- Make that partition ACTIVE
- COPY ALL files from disaster recovery CD to that partition (drag to root folder)
Now boot from that external disk drive.
Perhaps there isn't an automated way to do that provided by reflect programUnfortunately, its not possible to have both the recovery boot files, and image on the same media.
I haven't bothered trying it with macrium , but it works fine with my other imaging programs.
Ok, we have had a failure to communicate. Sorry! let me try again.
Right now, I keep the images for my notebook and my desktop machine's C:/ drive on 2.5" internal drives. I use a USB 2.0 dock with the notebook and a 2.5" swap bay (directly connected to an internal SATA port) on the desktop to plug the drives into when making an image (I keep the drives stored away from the computer when not using them). To restore a drive, I currently have to use a recovery CD and the HDD the image is stored on. What I'm wanting to do is have a "recovery disk" on the same HDDs the images are stored on so I don't have to keep up with a separate disk, especially with the notebook (it's case is getting a bit crowded). That way, all I have to do is plug one HDD into a dock or swap bay and go from there.
You can put the macrium wim on there easily enough. The tricky bit is booting it - if you want to keep plugging and unplugging the drive.
I will make the macrium thing and post back when I have reminded myself how they do it.
I have just installed and run Macrium Reflect free version (5.1, build 5870) for the first time using the setting to image the Windows operating system disk. I have two physical disks in my PC, a 256GB SSD for the operating system (of which I am using around 140GB at present) and a 7200rpm disk for user data. I ran a backup to the user data drive and it saved a single 80GB file to the user data disk. Right clicking this I was able to mount it and see various C drive files and folders so I assume it's copied everything (including the MBR). I specify including the MBR since before I installed my SSD the MBR was on a separate partition but it looks like now the MBR is included on the C drive since the C drive is marked (under disk management) as "System, boot page file, active, crash dump, primary partition" and there is no separate 100MB partition. Does it sound like I have copied everything necessary in the event of total disk failure and the need to fit a new SSD?
A few more questions.
(i) When I ran Macrium it did NOT ask me to create a rescue CD ROM disk. I ran it a second time and it offered to create a rescue disk with a choice of Linux or Windows PE with the caveat that the Windows PE required a 1GB download first. Linked to this thread somewhere was a disk image iso called Rescue5828 with the suggestion that I should burn it to a CD-ROM as some sort of basic version of windows that would rescue a system. Can I burn that to the disk and have a fully functioning rescue disk, or do I have to create a rescue disk that is unique to my system? What exactly is the image on the Rescue5828 and if I burn it to a CD-ROM will it restore my system, given that I am running Macrium 5870?
(ii) For belt and braces should I create a rescue disk with the Linux option AND burn the 5828 iso image? Or should I not have two versions of the resuce software on the same CD ROM disk?
(iii) When I ran Macrium I noticed that on my second internal hard drive in My Documents it had created a folder called Macrium and an 8kb xml document called My backup 25052012 (which is the name I had requested to be given to the backup - that's not the same name as the 80GB image file it created though). What is this 8kb xlm file that's now sitting in My documents, do I need it and do I need to back it up next time I run a file and folder backup of my data drive?
Many thanks for help with these queries.
Diddlededum
HI Diddledum and welcome to Seven Forums.
1. Rescue5828 is a PE recovery disk that one of our members has created for you. It will be usable with later builds of Macrium.
2. You don't need both rescue disks. Of the two the PE disk is preferable.
3. The XML file is a definition of the backup. You can use it to run the same backup again without going through the set-up process. Just click on the "Backup Definition Files" tab to access it.
If you download the WinPE .iso from my skydrive you will save a lot of time. Then burn this .iso to a CD.
This is the Skydrive link
Right click on the linked item and download. It takes only appr. 8 minutes versus appr. 2 hours if you have to download the WAIK.