Image your system with free Macrium

That's good news symp.

New update this week. Fixes for the v5.0.
New Macrium 5.0 may require a new Linux Recovery CD.

I'm not sure the old WinPE or Linux Rescue CD's will work .

To be safe I made a new Linux v5.0.4196.
After burning to test CD. Shut down PC and then start it up and let it load to check the CD. It took about a minute or so to load, be patient.

Hard drive partitions on the Linux CD show different letter arrangements than Windows so just look on different partitions if it isn't where you think it should be per Windows.
Windows shows my Mac images on "G" and Mac Resue CD showed it as "F".

When you are ready to leave the CD just click the ( X ) if ESC does not work.

ignatzatsonic said:

Hopalong X said:

New update this week. Fixes for the v5.0.
New Macrium 5.0 may require a new Linux Recovery CD.

I'm not sure the old WinPE or Linux Rescue CD's will work .

To be safe I made a new Linux v5.0.4196.
After burning to test CD. Shut down PC and then start it up and let it load to check the CD. It took about a minute or so to load, be patient.

Thanks for the notification, Hoppy.

Hmmm....if the old WinPE disk won't work, I may not update.

I have an earlier version of 5 and could never get a Linux disk to boot, though I made Linux discs using all possible methods. So I went with a PE disk and it works---I just don't know if I want to jump through the hoops required to make a PE disk again.

Do you happen to have an old PE disk you could test on this new version--at least to see if it will even boot and show your image files and partitions?

Never tried a WinPE only the Linux Rescue CD's which have worked perfectly for me so far.

The old Win PE may work just fine. Don't know.

I only posted so those interested would be aware and check it for themselves.

You might check what SIW2 posted.
I'm not familiar with what he posted either.

Mike

Would you necessarily expect the old PE disk to work with the new Macrium 5.0 and how far into a test process would I have to go to confirm that one way or another? Merely a boot and see if I can locate my image file and partitions?

This is all I can do with my new disk. I wasn't going to actually set an image today.

If the old disk won't even find the new images you know you definitely need the new disk.

The old disk should access and set the older images.
Like the new image I made today may not work with an older Rescue CD.

I'm just being safe. I now have three Macrium Linux Rescue CD's. Three CD updates three new CD's.
I am sure not throwing away the old ones.
They may never be used again but they are there with the rest of my "tools" on CD's.

Also remember I said the old CD's MAY not work with the new images or software.
I just don't know.

You also do not have to update the software if your not having problems. Stay with the older version of Macrium.
I was ready to go back to the old version if I had problems with the 5.0.
Your call.
Mike

SIW2 said:

You can knock up anew pe disc easily enough - I made a liitle app to do it - without using WAIK.

Otherwise, you can easily update the one you already have - just mount the wim and replace the files with the new ones - there are only a handful of files in there.

I've never made one.
Is there a tutorial about that or do you know of a site, which has a good explanation/"how to".

I was scanning the "Ultimate Boot Disc" forums last week, but everyone commenting there, acted like everyone knows how to do it.
That attitude even applied to the people who were asking how to do it.

ignatzatsonic said:

This continual new version stuff is wearing on me, just as it is with Firefox.

I agree.
Especially the new versions, which use giant buttons "optimised" for tablets!

Pre-Macrium 5, you got a table of drives and partitions with everything nicely lined up.
I screenshot the Macrium status page and include it with my backup images.
For example (from August 2010):

Now you get stupid tiles, spread horizontally, so you can't easily scan the results.
As a result, I re-imaged my Programs partition to get Macrium 4 back.

ignatzatsonic said:

But I don't know that for a fact. The implication of new versions is that at some point your old versions will no longer be viable. And I'd like to know when that might be rather than being rudely made aware of it during a failed restore attempt.

I can't see that there would be any problems, as long as you keep the boot disk, which matches the Macrium version you used to create the images.

ignatzatsonic said:

I'd prefer to be able to use a Linux disk rather than a PE disk, but Linux disks have not booted for me since Macrium 4.

That's weird.
The Linux disc has always worked for me.