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Macrium corruption / boot disc questions
A couple questions regarding macrium reflect 5 free edition
1) I just did a new image of all my drives, I also created both linux and windows pae recovery discs prior to doing it. The image is being held on an external WD usb3 drive. I am using Windows 7 home edition 64 bit
What I forgot about was, that I had some new ram on order that should be arriving in a day or so. I will be adding this ram to my computer. Currently 2 of the 4 slots have the current sticks, the new sticks will be placed in the open slots. So I'm not replacing the old ram, just adding additional ram.
If I add this ram, is this going to corrupt my current image if I would need to repair my system?
2) I would like to test my recovery discs, but I'm a little confused as to the proper way of doing it. I have made sure my bios are set to boot from the cd as the first option. I have seen tutorials on how to recover using a recovery boot disc. But I can't find any that shows you to just test the recovery disc.
I in NO way want to accidentally tell it to make the recovery, I just want to make sure it will boot and see if while in the boot, macrium can see my image. What confuses me is how I escape out once I determine the image can be seen?
If any one can give me some real specific steps or point me to a tutorial I would appreciate it. Consider me a complete newbie when it comes to using boot discs.