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[SIW2]

@whs,

What was wrong with Aomei on your transformer?

(I don't really know what a transformer is - I was under the impression it is a tabbok or netlet or some other daft name, which runs android - that is wrong, obviously).


It might be a botched install, but if there is something about the "transformer" it doesn't like, there is a log file. It is in Aomei Backupper\log folder.

If you post the log file up , they may be able to see what it is and fix it.

 

[SIW2]

But what if my OS is dead.

Then you use the recovery media you created on dvd/flash. Those boot menu / pre-os things are for convenience. Neither of them replace the need for external media, just in case

 

[SIW2]

In the case of MR, it will still work since, if you select it during boot, it will boot before the OS and works independently of the OS. It's only when the drive itself is dead that it won't work. Then you fall back to a disk or stick. I suspect it's the same for AOMEI.

Not really, they both depend on windows boot process working. Sometimes that is the very reason you need to restore.

 

[Lady Fitzgerald]

In the case of MR, it will still work since, if you select it during boot, it will boot before the OS and works independently of the OS. It's only when the drive itself is dead that it won't work. Then you fall back to a disk or stick. I suspect it's the same for AOMEI.

Not really, they both depend on windows boot process working. Sometimes that is the very reason you need to restore.

With MR on my machine, the menu to chose between booting into Win 7 or Win PE appears immediately after the UEFI and the BIOS from my HBA card have finished booting but before Win 7 itself starts to boot. It hangs for three seconds, then, if nothing is selected, Win 7 starts to boot.

 

[kado897]

In the case of MR, it will still work since, if you select it during boot, it will boot before the OS and works independently of the OS. It's only when the drive itself is dead that it won't work. Then you fall back to a disk or stick. I suspect it's the same for AOMEI.

Not really, they both depend on windows boot process working. Sometimes that is the very reason you need to restore.

I use your RE64 program to create an ISO that has both Macrium and AOMEI in the one PE. It works very well.

 

[SIW2]

Thanks. Glad you like it. Glad somebody is using it.

I put a couple of extra things in there. Is it clear what they are all for ? The NT6Repair what I made myself, since nobody else has.

 

[SIW2]

With MR on my machine, the menu to chose between booting into Win 7 or Win PE appears immediately after the UEFI and the BIOS from my HBA card have finished booting but before Win 7 itself starts to boot. It hangs for three seconds, then, if nothing is selected, Win 7 starts to boot.

Yes, the menu is the windows boot menu. It depends on mbr executable code, partition table, bootsector code, bootmgr, bcd, back to bootmgr again - then you get the menu. After you make a selection, bootmgr tries to find and start the os loader. If you are using EFI, it is the same except it goes firmware boot manager >windows bootmgr, bcd, back to bootmgr, windows boot menu,etc.

That is windows boot process which can often get borked.

 

[Lady Fitzgerald]

With MR on my machine, the menu to chose between booting into Win 7 or Win PE appears immediately after the UEFI and the BIOS from my HBA card have finished booting but before Win 7 itself starts to boot. It hangs for three seconds, then, if nothing is selected, Win 7 starts to boot.

Yes, the menu is the windows boot menu. It depends on mbr executable code, partition table, bootsector code, bootmgr, bcd, back to bootmgr again - then you get the menu. After you make a selection, bootmgr tries to find and start the os loader.

That is windows boot process.

Curious. It's the same process if using something other than Windows, such as Linux.

 

[kado897]

Thanks. Glad you like it. Glad somebody is using it.

I put a couple of extra things in there. Is it clear what they are all for ? The NT6Repair what I made myself, since nobody else has.

Most of them. Not the NT6Repair though.

 

[whs]

I'll have to try that. Thanks LF. I assume it will show up in the BIOS boot selection or does it show up automatically.

 

[kado897]

It's not part of the BIOS it is in the Windows boot menu.

 

[SIW2]

The bit in red is for accessing shadow copies from winpe. Your /neighbour/cousin/whoever probably will not have made their own images. But they will almost certainly have shadows.

You can use them in exactly the same way. Pick a drive letter and hit the button. The Explorer will show them to you like this, those are the snapshots.



Look inside them and you will see everything there as the moment the snapshot was taken.

You can go to the existing windows drive and create a folder called OLDWINDOWS or whatever, then MOVE the OS directories into it. ( If you are short of space you can delete them instead of moving.)

You then copy the same windows directories from the snapshot onto the existing windows drive. (I highlighted them all, but copy them one at a time).



That is it. Reboot back into windows as it was the moment the snapshot was made.

 

[kado897]

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The bit in red is for accessing shadow copies from winpe. Your /neighbour/cousin/whoever probably will not have made their own images. But they will almost certainly have shadows.

You can use them in exactly the same way. Pick a drive letter and hit the button. The Explorer will show them to you like this, those are the snapshots.

View attachment 303194

Look inside them and you will see everything there as the moment the snapshot was taken.

You can go to the existing windows drive and create a folder called OLDWINDOWS or whatever, then MOVE the OS directories into it. ( If you are short of space you can delete them instead of moving.)

You then copy the same windows directories from the snapshot onto the existing windows drive. (I highlighted them all, but copy them one at a time).

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That is it. Reboot back into windows as it was the moment the snapshot was made.

Ah that's useful.

 

[Lady Fitzgerald]

I'll have to try that. Thanks LF. I assume it will show up in the BIOS boot selection or does it show up automatically.

It will show up with a menu in its own splash screen after the BIOS/UEFI splash screens. If you don't choose between Win 7 or MR Win PE within around three seconds, it will default to booting Win 7.

 

[SIW2]

@whs,

It would be very useful if you can find the aomei logs in program files\aomei backupper\logs.

If there is problem, they can't identiify and fix it without those.

Unless you meant the issue was with winpe? If so, what version of winpe is it, and where did you create it?

 

[whs]

It's not part of the BIOS it is in the Windows boot menu.

Thaks Keith. I got it to work on my desktop. But the 32bit system on my Transformer does not play. SIW's path C:\Boot\macrium\WAIKFiles\iso\sources\boot.wim was invalid. Nothing workls in that 32bit Windows 8.

 

[SIW2]

Strange.

I don't suppose you can find the aomei backupper\logs.

If not, then just just starting aomei should create a log file.

 

[whs]

@whs,

It would be very useful if you can find the aomei logs in program files\aomei backupper\logs.

If there is problem, they can't identiify and fix it without those.

Unless you meant the issue was with winpe? If so, what version of winpe is it, and where did you create it?

I'll do that once I have a free moment. Right now the wife is chasing me all over the place for that garage sale we are having. I'll send you a PM once I got it.

 

[SIW2]

Garage sale? I think I know what that might be. I suppose you need the weather for it.

 

[whs]

I got some time-off, LOL, and got the info.

1. Pic 2 shows what I get when I want to select the partition

2. Pic 1 shows my Disk Management. Disk 1 is a USB stick and Disk 2 is a micro SD card to which I wanted to image partition 'T' as a test

3. the AOMEI log in betweem






View attachment AOMEI Log.txt