I only have "C" so images are just that single partition. No System Reserve or "D" on the SSD.
I have no way to try what you were attempting.
I would need a multipartition image which I don't have.
All in all I liked the v4 Macrium software and v4 Linux disk better.
Right, the V4.2 Linux disc was more obvious. But the V5 WinPE DVD is not bad.
If you only image the system, I guess the V5 Linux CD will do. But I also image single data partitions of which there are always more than one on the HDDs. And recovering those seems to be impossible with the Linux CD - it was possible with the V4.2 Linux cd though.
I am not sure what caused the problem. I have Windows 8 installed on one hard drive and Windows 7 on another. I had be been playing around with Win8 and when I tried to go back to Win7, that when I had the problem. Did Win8 cause the problem? I had done this several times and never had an issue, but I do suspect Win8 caused the problem for Win7. Don't ask me how that could be but that is what I suspect.I am not sure what happened here because we never analysed the causes of the failure.
Hopalong X
I liked Macrium v4 better than I did v5. I used the v4 several times to restore images and never had an issue. When I went to v5 I created both the Linux and PE rescue disks and tested both ot them and they seemed to work. It was only when had my problem that the Linux rescue disk would NOT work.All in all I liked the v4 Macrium software and v4 Linux disk better.
The other thing I liked about v4 was you could validate the image when it was made. You can not do that with v5.
Right now I have Acronis installed to make backup images. I may even install Macrium v4 (I think I still have v4 around somewhere) again since I do trust it. I will never use v5 again for sure.
At any rate Windows 7 is now working fine since I reinstalled it.
I recently installed Macrium v5 (free) and I see an option to Validate a backup image.
It's in the "Restore" tab / Archive Image "selected".
I haven't found a way to add the verify step to the image create process.
But, i can manually verify the image after creating it.
I'm testing Macrium on an XP SP3 machine...
I personally use Acronis TI, but I'm checking the BU options for people I support remotely.
@huffman
One thing that could go wrong and give the bootmgr missing error is if system reserved was not restored as the Active partition.
An opinion on V5: on the surface it seems to have some nice additional features. One is a restore with 1MB alignment and it specifically mentions SSDs as one of the intended target drives. This is available with the free version. So it suggests you can reimage from a non SSD to an SSD with correct alignment.
Also using the DISM command you can insert new drivers into a pe disk. I would forget the linux disk.
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I have not done an actual restore with the Unix disk but from what I have read it will restore just the partitions that are in the image you select and not affect any other partitions on the drive, except for this one statement:
Note that any partitions existing on this disk that overlap the partition(s) you are restoring will be lost.
Jim
Thanks Jim. Maybe I should try it out one day with a new external disk where I cannot do much damage.
But with this sentence you lost me. What are 'overlapping partitions'.
Note that any partitions existing on this disk that overlap the partition(s) you are restoring will be lost
OK, I see. As an action after the image was originally taken. Thanks for clarifying. I doubt though whether that would work at all - if you changed the size of the receiving partition.
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