Macrium image or Windows 7?

SIW2 said:

Hi Chuckles,

Sorry to hear you are having problems.

Not clear what you mean .

You say you you imaged and restored several partitions fine.

Then you mention only two drives ( C AND J )

Is the drive that is not visible to macrium boot disc an external HD?

You appear to indicate it is a different partition on the same HD as the drive that can be seen.



Can you post a screenshot of Disk Management window?

Sorry if I wasn't clear.

I have one drive, several partitions. Partitions d: e: f: g: h: and i: all restored fine from their respective images on j:

When I went to restore the c: drive from the image on j: I was naturally enough informed that the drive was in use and locked and so I booted the Rescue CD.

I can't get the GUI to "see" j: so I can't restore.........somewhat strangely, copying the image and the xml file onto the c: drive doesn't help as the Rescue Cd doesn't even see the files!

I've even made another copy of the Rescue CD from my laptop downstairs just in case there was something screwy with the burn but to no avail.

I think I'll go back to BootIt - not as pretty as Macrium but it works.

That's why they have those extra options for creating the boot disc - if you now have one that works for your system - you are fine.

ignatzatsonic said:

I just had a somewhat concerning experience with Macrium an hour ago.

I recently rebuilt my system and now have a Sandy Bridge CPU with Windows 7 64-bit. I downloaded the newest version of Macrium, installed it, and made an image. No problem.

My first attempt at a boot disc did not work. The mouse was not recognized on USB 3.0 ports. I changed to USB 2.0 to get the mouse to work, but still was not able to choose a source partition to restore. The mouse had literally no effect once I got to that screen.

So I made another boot CD, this time using "compatibility mode". This one did not have any mouse support whatsoever, regardless of port.

For the third boot CD, I tried compatibility mode AND debugging. For completely unknown reasons, this one seems to have worked. At least I can boot from it and navigate several steps into the restore process as a test.

I have no idea what is going on, but it didn't inspire any confidence.

So, I will maintain my standard practice---hope imaging works, expect it to fail, and use another method as a fallback position (the free Western Digital edition of Acronis).

So J is an external HD of some kind?

It may be the macrium Linux kernel isn't picking it up.

That can happen with all imaging apps. - none of the Linux discs supplied with free versions are compatible with every conceivaable type of hardware.

Winpe discs are better at that - but , because a license is required if it is used as part of a commercial product - winpe discs do not come with any free versions from any company.


I suggest people make their own winpe discs.

chuckles1066 said:

SIW2 said:

Hi Chuckles,

Sorry to hear you are having problems.

Not clear what you mean .

You say you you imaged and restored several partitions fine.

Then you mention only two drives ( C AND J )

Is the drive that is not visible to macrium boot disc an external HD?

You appear to indicate it is a different partition on the same HD as the drive that can be seen.



Can you post a screenshot of Disk Management window?

Sorry if I wasn't clear.

I have one drive, several partitions. Partitions d: e: f: g: h: and i: all restored fine from their respective images on j:

When I went to restore the c: drive from the image on j: I was naturally enough informed that the drive was in use and locked and so I booted the Rescue CD.

I can't get the GUI to "see" j: so I can't restore.........somewhat strangely, copying the image and the xml file onto the c: drive doesn't help as the Rescue Cd doesn't even see the files!

I've even made another copy of the Rescue CD from my laptop downstairs just in case there was something screwy with the burn but to no avail.

I think I'll go back to BootIt - not as pretty as Macrium but it works.

SIW2 said:

So J is an external HD of some kind?

No j: is a partition of the one hard drive in my machine.

Very strange, post a Screenshot of disk management window

SIW2 said:

Very strange, post a Screenshot of disk management window

Here you go!

Thanks, that's interesting.

Does macrium linux boot disc recognize the HD?

Does it recognize any of the partitions?

Does it only recognize the Primary partitions?