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Macrium system image restore after blue screen - Very confused.
This has shaken my confidence in Macrium (V5.3.7299 free) and may be a concern to other Macrium users.
Background: I was working on a usb flash drive utility tool and in the process the system hung and I needed to do a hard reset. On restart I got a blue screen.
What I did:
1) I restored one of my numerous trusty Macrium images. PC booted fine and appeared to run ok but with the "Windows has recovered from an unexpected shutdown - bluescreen" message. Even older images I'd used before showed the message after I logged in. I expected a system restore to overwrite all error messages and start with a clean slate.
2) Used Partition Wizard boot tool to delete the 2 partitions on my SSD OS drive leaving it unallocated. Went through the same Macrium image restore process and the warning message still appeared.
3) Luckily I had a very recent Windows inbuilt system image. It restored fine (but slowww) with NO warning message as I would have expected from Macrium.
4) After this I tried restoring some Macrium images I used in step 1). They restored fine and now with no warning message.
I did an sfc /scannow after each image restore experiment and there was no system file corruption.
It looks like Macrium restore doesn't overwrite things I would expect it to. This is worrying.
Any thoughts??