Create factory original settings CD.

I did burn 4 DVDs with the original factory settings. The laptop kept reminding me every time I start the laptop so, I finally did it. One q please..........what image did Macrium create ?

I think you misunderstood - I meant you should not forget to burn the Macrium recovery CD from Macrium. That will be needed the day you want to pull your image back in.

Now to your question. The image is an .mrimg file. It acts kind of like an VHD. If you double click on it, it mounts a Virtual HD from where you can e.g. copy files - very practical.

whs said:

I think you misunderstood - I meant you should not forget to burn the Macrium recovery CD from Macrium. That will be needed the day you want to pull your image back in.

Now to your question. The image is an .mrimg file. It acts kind of like an VHD. If you double click on it, it mounts a Virtual HD from where you can e.g. copy files - very practical.

Let's see if I got it right. If I have the Macrium image on an external drive, do I still need to burn the Macrium image on cd ? I hope I am not a pest but, still trying to learn.

Hey whs,

I did figure it out. Thanks for your help.

Good, just the Macrium restore CD (Linux version is OK). You burn that in 2 minutes to a CD (not DVD)

OK. Will do.

jimbo45 said:

Hi there
I'd recommend keeping an image on an external HDD -- much faster and probably safer to restore from. If you have 4 DVD's there's always a chance one could get defective -- then ????.

HDD's are cheapish even today you can get a self powered 1 TB usb drive for around 65 EUR.

Most of the stand alone backup / restore programs that can be booted from a CD / USB will be able to find images stored on external HDD's. (Macrium, Acronis, Paragon etc etc,)

Cheers
jimbo

Hi,

I know to back up my files on an external drive but how do I save an image on that drive ? When Asus reminded me about creating a back up the only option was to do it on CDs. Little confusing about back up, system image. restore CD, repair CD and so on.