Mounting with Aomei backupper

I can't do that.
I'm a senior citizen and most of the people I help are 60+ years old, non-tech, ...
They like to use a computer to read email, play games, read news, find recipes, whatever ...
I can't tell these friends and family "You shouldn't use a PC if you don't understand backup".

If anyone gets enjoyment using a PC, I think they should use a PC.
I learned the lesson a long time ago to use backups by shooting myself in the foot.
i.e. I wonder what will happen if I do this ??? - OOPS
No toes left, but I can restore

I just can't expect the mass market non-tech users to learn to use backup/restore or not use a PC.
If that did happen, would SF be needed?

I just can't expect the mass market non-tech users to learn to use backup/restore or not use a PC.
If that did happen, would SF be needed?

I don't know. I think if you use a computer you should have some minimum skills. I don't feel like a senior citizen but I am 76 and I started with PCs when I was 69 with one of the first Vista systems. That was not easy but I think I made it. So why can't everybody else learn a bit.

Sure we will help them - although sometimes it is pretty useless. They'll make the same mistakes tomorrow again because they can't even listen.

I have refused to help people in the past after I bailed them out 2 or 3 times and they made exactly the same mistakes again. I told them, if you don't listen, you are on your own.

I have never checked to see if writes standard standard mbr code during partition restore - no need to really. It will write the necessary to the partition table of course.

Couple of things here to create winpe for you:

Unzip it, and rt click and run as admin on the .cmd file.

for 64 bit https://www.dropbox.com/s/802hgbocdafdhd2/RE64v7.zip

for 32 bit https://www.dropbox.com/s/ubak5ssng7ozipb/RE86v7.zip

I doubt it. Once you have initialised the disk to mbr, the mbr code is there. It stays there. There is no need to rewrite it. It is at the beginning of the disk, before the partitions start, well protected. It is not impossible for it to get damaged, but it is very rare.

Some imaging and partitioning will automatically rewrite it with standard code ( same as nt6 code without the tpm checking bit, which is not required to boot windows). They do that because although it is incredibly unlikely to be damaged, it is so tiny, takes a fraction of a millisecond to do, so they might as well. That is obviously a nuisance if you have deliberately set non standard code, e.g. if you have grub2 installed.

It is much more likely you restored the windows partition, but not the system partition - you won't boot up if you did that. Aomei has a function called System backup. That will image the system and boot partitions, ensuring that when restored, they will both be there. If you choose partition backup instead, then the user has to make sure they have backed all the partition windows needs.

Another possibility is the bcd entry wasn't reset correctly, all imaging programs will do that, but rarely something goes wrong.

I have used Aomei to restore images to different hard drives without any issues.