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In fact I did that on a laptop the wife uses for travelling. Rather than having her lug an external disk, I occasionally put an image into an extra partition on the single disk. That way she can at least bail herself out of any system trouble. That does not help when the HDD breaks, but that would require my intervention anyhow. That is the only laptop where I kept the HDD and did not install an SSD - just for that reason to have enough real estate.
Yes. Well the laptop is my only PC ATM so I didn't fancy doing anything exotic on it. Sometime soon I will get my self a desktop and set that up the way I want it. There always seems to be something more urgent to spend the money on however.
I have found speed wise all software on default settings to a USB3 connected external HDD. Speed in rank order:
1) Easeus (clear winner)
2) Macrium
3) Windows
I thought 1) & 2) was similar default compression and 3) was little or none.
Compression and the speed cost of the compression is a big unknown.
Also the location on the spinning disk the image is stored can make a very significant difference to speed. Radial velocity and transfer rate to magnetic media etc. Observed fact.
[QUOTE=SIW2;1553683]Yes, if you are on windows 7 x64 you can use my little app to make macrium pe3 instead of downloading WAIK.
Regarding the "little app" you referenced, if it streamlines the making of a non-linux recovery disk for use with Macrium under Win 7 64 bit, how can one get the app? Thanks!
Instal macrium v5. The trial version is fine any edition you like.
2. D/l this, unzip it. Attachment 172858 (It is to be run on 64 bit win 7 only )
Inside is a .7z file.
Un 7-zip that onto your Drive - you should have a folder C:\Easype-x64-v2
Inside is an app called RunMeAsAdminv2.exe
Rt click it and run as admin.
Takes about 1 min to make the pe3 media for you.
Yes, that's exactly what it does. No need for WAIK.Does it create an ISO file to make a PE3 runtime CD? ...If your EXE finds them on my HDD and then includes them, that's one handy program!