Imaging with free Macrium

ICIT2LOL · 23 Aug 2014

kado897 said:

ICit2lol said:

Hello again I am not sure now what is going on with this drive as it is showing in Disk management and the Partition Wizard but Macrium on requesting an image is giving me the message in the pic.

Have trieed makig a folder but as you can it is in Disk Management and Macrium but not in This PC machine upgraded Regretfully to 8,

I'm no expert John but it might be worth trying to assign a new drive letter. It's in the right click menu in Drive Manager.

Thanks Kado I will try that mate as I have been waiting for an answer to what is quite a mystery.:)

ICIT2LOL · 23 Aug 2014

Thanks Kado running now not a hitch

kado897 · 23 Aug 2014

Yay.

ICIT2LOL · 23 Aug 2014

kado897 said:

Yay.

Yay indeed mate the image finished in 7 minutes!!

kado897 · 23 Aug 2014

ICit2lol said:

kado897 said:

Yay.

Yay indeed mate the image finished in 7 minutes!!

Just make sure the restore disk can find it.

ICIT2LOL · 23 Aug 2014

It does and thanks again Kado

John

looked · 23 Aug 2014

ignatzatsonic said:

Either the disc boots you to the Macrium interface or it doesn't.

Does it?

Thanks for taking your time.
Yes I was able to boot in then I stopped at two choices, clone disk or image disk, what is the difference, this sounds confusing to me.

whs · 23 Aug 2014

Clone - creates a bootable duplicate
Image - is a snapshot of the system at that time which can be restored

I recommend to work with images.

looked · 23 Aug 2014

whs said:

Clone - creates a bootable duplicate
Image - is a snapshot of the system at that time which can be restored

I recommend to work with images.

Sorry I can't see the difference.
Both options create a snapshot in that right moment that I can use later.
Is the image option a non bootable snapshot that needs WinPE to be restored?
I think that the tutorial is missing this information for noob people like me.

Lady Fitzgerald · 23 Aug 2014

Think of images as a photo negative you use to later make a usable print. Unlike cloning, you can make images of individual partitions. Images are the best way to backup a drive or partition with an OS.

A clone is more like a Polaroid instant photo print. It's a duplicate of the source drive. One can only clone entire drives. Cloning is the fastest way to make a usable copy of a drive since it's one step and doesn't need a separate drive to store the image on.