Solved Image your system with free Macrium

I have previously used Drive Image on my win2000/xp machines. What I have always done is put an image on the internal HDD, differet partition, and restored from there. This can usually be done in a few minutes after booting into caldera dos. But of course DI will not work with ntfs.I find this method extremely useful after modifying/trying out new programs/problems etc etc.

Will Macrium allow me to restore my win 7 machine in the same way. Unfortunately my C drive is about 13Gb which I find, contrary to what a lot of peope think, much too big. I do not want to wait an hour or so to restore - my DI solution on my desktops, which have C drives <3Gb, mean't I was never down for more than 5-10 minutes max.
 

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I alternate. Every second image goes to a partition on an internal HDD, then the next one to an external disk. The image I took this morning from my Win7 C: ( 13.2GB used) took 3.40 minutes. A restore from the external disk took 20 minutes (have not yet tried from the HDD). And that was without prior image verification. With verification, the time doubles.

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I used Macrium on Vista, but now use 7's options. No point installing extra software when Windows does everything you need.
 

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whs said:
I alternate. Every second image goes to a partition on an internal HDD, then the next one to an external disk. The image I took this morning from my Win7 C: ( 13.2GB used) took 3.40 minutes. A restore from the external disk took 20 minutes (have not yet tried from the HDD). And that was without prior image verification. With verification, the time doubles.
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So I can restore from the internal HDD directly - If so does it do this by installing its own dos, like drive image when booting up ?

How big would an approx 13Gb C drive compress to and can this be made into 1 bootable DVD ?

Thanks
 

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You can restore from an internal HDD provided it is from a different partition, better even different physical drive. An image of a 13GB OS footprint is a little over 6GB (which would not fit on a DVD). But the recue CD fits on a cd or DVD. You should burn that first because else you cannot recover.
 

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Making recovery disk with Macrium

With all do respect, you sure brushed by the making of the the Recovery Disk.

I just went through the process and they gave two options: Linux and BartPE.
In Bart PE they mention XP which i was using to make an Image. I had no idea what BARTPE was all about, so I used the Linux option.

After reading i have some idea about BART, the fellow said it took 2 days to make a BART disc. No thanks.

Question : do you feel my image disks will work to recover my XP system ? I tested the Recovery disk and it asked for the vital data to proceed. Also the individual disks report the Macrium image in the proper order. i didn't go any further...
Your help would be welcomed. thanks
 

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Use the Linux version. It works. I recoverd several times already with it - just for testing.
 

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Thanks very much.. did you test the linux ver. with XP? The reason I ask because in Bart they mention " if you are using XP" ... just a little confusing.
 

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I tested with Win7 and Vista. Not XP (I have no XP), sorry. But why don't you test it if you have XP and report back.
 

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valued suggestion, only problem i could lose my data . I'll wait till I have to do a reload of XP .

I used it for my Win 7 computer so your info has been encouraging, thanks again.
 

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No need to experiment with your system and data. Go and image a "non vital" partition or drive on your XP system and then reload it. I always keep a "testing partition" around, just for that purpose. In the picture it is the "Extra Partition F: ".

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Have just made an image, with the free version, to my internal HDD in a separate partition.

A few things:

I tried both medium and high compression and the difference for a 14Gb C drive was only about 300Mb - so hardly worth doing

I am currently, I think, making an image to an external DVD. However it does say via a popup that it should be a re writable cd/dvd. Mine is not and it still appears to be working - Would this be correct or does it in fact require a rewritable dvd?

My transfer speeds are slow compared to Drive Image, which I cannot use, approximately 150-180Mb/s compared to 900Mb/s for DI. Are these speeds normal and is there a way to speed it up

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there's a good idea.... never considered it. I'll give it a try after i rest from all these images.( We spent a wonderful vacation in the black forest and southern Germany. I should have the language my parents did....... As you know Florida is a second home for Canadians. )
 

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sunbeamtalbot said:
Have just made an image, with the free version, to my internal HDD in a separate partition.

A few things:

I tried both medium and high compression and the difference for a 14Gb C drive was only about 300Mb - so hardly worth doing

I am currently, I think, making an image to an external DVD. However it does say via a popup that it should be a re writable cd/dvd. Mine is not and it still appears to be working - Would this be correct or does it in fact require a rewritable dvd?

My transfer speeds are slow compared to Drive Image, which I cannot use, approximately 150-180Mb/s compared to 900Mb/s for DI. Are these speeds normal and is there a way to speed it up

Thanks
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Sorry I cannot help you here. I never use CD/DVD to write anything. I have 6 external disks and an extra internal disk drive that I use for that. The idea having to a bunch of CD/DVDs around scares me - with my sense of order - LOL.
 

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wilfj said:
there's a good idea.... never considered it. I'll give it a try after i rest from all these images.( We spent a wonderful vacation in the black forest and southern Germany. I should have the language my parents did....... As you know Florida is a second home for Canadians. )
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I am glad you had a good time in the Black Forest. I hope the weather was nice. You would not want to be there today - weather is dismal as I hear on the German webradio. Can't beat Florida this time of the year, although right now it's a little nippy too - in the 60's F.
 

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Have just completed a DVD image on 2 disks but after changing to the 2nd disks it gets to 100% and says Saving Index but the DVD just continues to spin and there are only 2 options on the dialog box Hide and Cancel - How long does it take to Index and if I cancel is it all wasted? It has been in this state for about 10 minutes

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Sunbeam:

You are getting a real life lesson in why DVD backups are a pain and can be problematic. Unless you have an over-riding reason to back up to DVD, I would avoid it and stick with hard drives. You can buy a high quality drive for $50 that would certainly store a lot of images.

It doesn't make a lot of sense to put an image on the same hard drive as the source, even if it is on a different partition. If that drive fails, your image is not likely to be accessible. Use a second internal or an external.
 

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ignatzatsonic said:
Sunbeam:

You are getting a real life lesson in why DVD backups are a pain and can be problematic. Unless you have an over-riding reason to back up to DVD, I would avoid it and stick with hard drives. You can buy a high quality drive for $50 that would certainly store a lot of images.

It doesn't make a lot of sense to put an image on the same hard drive as the source, even if it is on a different partition. If that drive fails, your image is not likely to be accessible. Use a second internal or an external.
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Amen !!!
 

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To bring this to a silent close, I've left the Building with my image on my External hard drive.
 

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Thank you for the tutorial WHS, is there a particular procedure for purging an image manually?
 

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