Image your system with free Macrium

Only USB 2.0 has worked for me.

I don't know what to say. This CD worked for me and for a few other people. I use it on 6 PCs and never had a problem. This is too bad.

Maybe try the Linux CD after all. It is different but maybe it works. It is easy to produce from the Macrium program. No WAIK required.

If you are using 64 bit, this should make a working winpe with macrium ( or aomei backupper ).

https://www.dropbox.com/s/7xjp8pznpt1tnl8/winre64.zip

Extract it onto your drive like this:



Then rt click and RUN AS ADMIN on the WINRE64-runmeasadmin.cmd

You are not the only one who is at a loss. The other option I could propose is to use AOMEI for imaging. That is a fine program too and maybe that works.

Free Hard Disk Partition Manager, Backup Software, NTFS to FAT32 Converter - AOMEI Technology

PS: I just saw the post of SIW2. He has always good ideas. Suggest you try his solution too.

SIW2 said:

If you are using 64 bit, this should make a working winpe with macrium ( or aomei backupper ).

https://www.dropbox.com/s/7xjp8pznpt1tnl8/winre64.zip

Extract it onto your drive like this:



Then rt click and RUN AS ADMIN on the WINRE64-runmeasadmin.cmd

That doesn't work. I tell it to boot from the disk, but it just ignores it and boots to windows.

EDIT: and funnily enough, when I installed AOMEI and tried it's restore media, it acted exactly the same way. I don't think it's UEFI bootable, despite there being a UEFI folder on the disk.

Mang Nux said:

Kaktussoft said:

How did you install win7 without keyboard/mouse?

The mouse/keyboard work perfectly in the BIOS/UEFI environment, Windows environment and they worked fine during the installation of Windows (booted from Win7 SP1 disk). It's only the Macrium disk that has this problem

Kaktussoft said:

If you attach an external disk or flash disk to same usb2.0 port... does macrium see it?

How could I know that if i can't navigate the rescue media?

Kaktussoft said:

Try machine's other usb2 ports

There are only four, and they're all on the chipset's controller. None of them work.

When I boot from the disk, I get to the 'desktop' where I see a message saying I might need to install network (N/A for my purposes) and USB (these will be for the motherboards USB 3.0 controller which I don't need). The mouse doesn't work, the keyboard doesn't work, and all I can do is hard-reset the PC.

After winpe has been booted.... macrium runs automatically. If you attach an usb external drive prior to booting you can see it in the macrium window

Since those various different recovery media work fine for other people, there appears to be something wrong at your end.

Are you able to get everything functioning if you boot up winre? ( F8 -repair my computer)

SIW2 said:

Since those various different recovery media work fine for other people, there appears to be something wrong at your end.

Are you able to get everything functioning if you boot up winre? ( F8 -repair my computer)

I think so too. We must look somewhere else. Maybe it is the BIOS that is retarded.

I once bought a very expensive Sony Vaio laptop where the same problem existed. I was unable to move the cursor when booted with a live CD. After Sony had confirmed the problem from there test center, they took the laptop back.

OP - can you check whether the system can operate the cursor and keyboard with another live CD - maybe some Linux live CD.