Image your system with free Macrium


  1. Posts : 9,600
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       #1541

    kado897 said:
    I have a fridge which is more than thirty years old and a freezer even older which finally gave up the ghost last week.
    My 1974 mobile home still has the original refrigerator (you do the math; I'm not awake yet). I had to replace the evaporator fan back in August of2007 (I can remember the date because that was a really bad year for me).
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  2. whs
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       #1542

    Lady Fitzgerald said:
    kado897 said:
    Britton30 said:
    I agree, I have things 6-8 years old.
    I have my grandfather's railroad watch that's 138-139 years old (and it still works; I wind it up every year on New Year's Day). Does that count?
    That's the advantage of programs which you can get from filehippo.com. They always have a stack of old versions available.
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    Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit Service Pack 1
       #1543

    whs said:
    Lady Fitzgerald said:
    kado897 said:

    I have my grandfather's railroad watch that's 138-139 years old (and it still works; I wind it up every year on New Year's Day). Does that count?
    That's the advantage of programs which you can get from filehippo.com. They always have a stack of old versions available.
    Also Old Version Downloads - OldApps.com
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  4. Posts : 43
    Windows 7 Ultimate x64
       #1544

    Hi everyone, I was wondering if when you image your C: drive, do you need to also select the 100MB System Reserved partition or just the main NTFS Primary partition?
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    Windows 10 Pro x64 ; Xubuntu x64
       #1545

    orlando1974 said:
    Hi everyone, I was wondering if when you image your C: drive, do you need to also select the 100MB System Reserved partition or just the main NTFS Primary partition?
    You need to select both.
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  6. whs
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       #1546

    Here is what you can do:

    Image the 100MB partition once and stick it into a safe place. It never changes unless you make a double boot. Then you make a second image. And in case you want to get rid of the double boot, you only have to restore the first image of the 100MB partition and then you can delete the double booted OS partition.

    The OS partition you should image often - at least once per week. But with those images you need not reimage the 100MB partition.

    Note: The 100MB partition contains the bootmgr and should you have to restore to a completely new disk (because your old disk broke), you need that partition. Else your system will not boot.

    Now I do things a bit differently. I move (copy) the bootmgr from the 100MB partition to C:\ and then I forget about the 100MB partition all together.

    Bootmgr - Move to C:\ with EasyBCD
    Last edited by whs; 07 Feb 2014 at 22:37. Reason: typo
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  7. mjf
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    Windows 7x64 Home Premium SP1
       #1547

    I always include the very small system reserved (200MB in my case) in the Macrium image set rather than make it once and store it away.
    Even simpler just select:
    "Create an image of the partition(s) required to backup and restore windows"
    If you have a system reserved, it will be included.
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  8. Posts : 43
    Windows 7 Ultimate x64
       #1548

    Thank you! :)
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  9. whs
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       #1549

    mjf said:
    I always include the very small system reserved (200MB in my case) in the Macrium image set rather than make it once and store it away.
    Even simpler just select:
    "Create an image of the partition(s) required to backup and restore windows"
    If you have a system reserved, it will be included.
    Sure, that is a good way too. I actually always copy the bootmgr to C and forget about the system partition.
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  10. Posts : 9,600
    Win 7 Ultimate 64 bit
       #1550

    mjf said:
    I always include the very small system reserved (200MB in my case) in the Macrium image set rather than make it once and store it away.
    Even simpler just select:
    "Create an image of the partition(s) required to backup and restore windows"
    If you have a system reserved, it will be included.
    I do the same thing. 'Tis simpler and I'm simple minded.
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