Solved Image your system with free Macrium

[Bellzemos]

OK guys and gal, I will try it out myself when I have some spare time. Thank you!

 

[kado897]

An update to Macrium has been released. Promises a 30% speed boost & GRUB2 support...

What's new? 5.2.6504:

USB Rescue Media
The creation of USB rescue media has been significantly improved and now includes support for external USB hard disks
Backup Performance
Backup performance has been improved by 30% or more.
GRUB2 Support
Images now include GRUB2 support for Linux systems
Destination Volume name now shown in the backup log.
To assist in the identification of backup disks where multiple disks use the same drive letter the target drive Volume name is now shown in the backup log.
MS recovery partition
The Windows MS recovery partition is now included when selecting 'Backup Windows' in Windows 8.0/8.1.
Improved time remaining granularity
When the time remaining for a backup is less than 3 hours the display will now include minutes.
Bug Fixes:

SMTP server port saving error
Changes made to the SMTP server port in the Macrium Reflect defaults could fail to be saved. This has been resolved.
Problem when shrinking a restored incremental image
When shrinking a partition during an incremental image restore the restored file system could require 'chkdsk' to correct file system errors. This has been resolved
An error occurred mounting the Windows Image File
A corrupt .zip extraction could cause rescue media creation failure with the message "An error occurred mounting the Windows Image File". This has been resolved

 

[Britton30]

Thanks Keith, mine was updated yesterday with a patch when I ran it.

 

[mjf]

"What's new? 5.2.6504:"

I like many use the free version and ran the patch but some of the rescue media enhancements may apply to the paid version.

 

[essenbe]

I updated mine, but haven't tried any of the new stuff yet.

 

[Lady Fitzgerald]

I do my weekly image tonight so I'll probably update first.

 

[lehnerus2000]

GRUB2 Support

Sure, but isn't redeploying only available in the paid version? I'm asking about the free version.

The redeploying of the paid version refers to dissimilar hardware, such as after replacing a MOBO. If you are only changing HDDs in the same machine, the free version should work just fine.

Agreed.

It has always worked for me, apart from occasional random glitches (e.g. drive letters changing).

An update to Macrium has been released.

Thanks for the "heads up", kado897.

I've always been able to successfully image my Linux partition (previously Ubuntu and now Linux Mint, using EXT4).

What benefits does the GRUB2 support provide?

 

[Lady Fitzgerald]

The update went through. The write speed increased but it still took five minutes to make the image. Read speed increased dramatically; verification took only four minutes instead of five. Overall, the image and verification took only nine minutes instead of the usual ten.

Question: is it necessary to update USB recovery media?

 

[whs]

Question: is it necessary to update USB recovery media?

They did not say in the paperwork, but I made one anyhow. Better be safe than sorry.

 

[Lady Fitzgerald]

Question: is it necessary to update USB recovery media?

They did not say in the paperwork, but I made one anyhow. Better be safe than sorry.

True that. Sadly, that means updating three of them. Oh, well!

Edit: I just did the first one of the three I have to do and there was an update. How critical it was I'm not sure (it something about 8.1) but, as you said, better safe than sorry. I'm going to start the second one in a moment, then I get to dig out my notebook and do that one (and about three months worth of updates).

 

[cutiepyie]

How to 'install' macrium driver

Hi all,
I went to install MRFree last night, seems to have gone okay except for the fact that when I went to make a rescue disk (windows), it told me that it did not work because it could not find the driver "wimmount.sys".
Does anyone know where I can find this driver & if found, how do I install it on system??

Tnx a bunch.

CP

 

[Britton30]

Hi all,
I went to install MRFree last night, seems to have gone okay except for the fact that when I went to make a rescue disk (windows), it told me that it did not work because it could not find the driver "wimmount.sys".
Does anyone know where I can find this driver & if found, how do I install it on system??

Tnx a bunch.

CP

Here's an easier way, see the Note box for two links to the WinRE iso files, it will save a lot of time.
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/73828-imaging-free-macrium.html#post648001
These files are the same.

 

[mjf]

Macrium may be looking for wimmount.sys under the WAIK tools
eg. c:\Program Files\Windows AIK\Tools\amd64
If you haven't downloaded the large (~1.2GB) WAIK then that may be the cause of the error.
However, I thought Macrium asked if you would like to download WAIK when making your own pe for the first time.

 

[whs]

However, I thought Macrium asked if you would like to download WAIK when making your own pe for the first time

You are right, it does download the Waik the first time. And it is even worse than you thought - it is 1.7GBs.

 

[essenbe]

I did mine last night and it will not boot. I did it 5 times. It does not, or did not with me, ask to install WAIK, it asks to download the install.WIM 401.x MB. That is all it aske me. I have WAIK on DVD, but do not have it

EDIT: I don't have the WAIK installed. The entire C:/Program Files is 4 GB and there is no WAIK there. I do have in The C: Program Files/Macrium (Size 67.9 MB) a WAIKFiles00X64 which is 13,919 KB in size, and a wimmount.SYS which is 40 KB.

 

[whs]

Steve, I think you need to install the WAIK for it to works as designed. But let me upload this latest iso, then you need not go thru that trouble.

 

[essenbe]

WHS, I recall something else I was doing and it required the Vista WAIK and not the 7 WAIK. There is some file in the Vista Waik that is not in the 7 one. I'm going back a while, and don't remember which it was.

 

[essenbe]

WHS, that's a lot of trouble just for me. I may very well have it somewhere and can use the Linux recovery if necessary. That's a lot of trouble for you.

 

[whs]

Don't worry Steve. It is already uploading but it will take a little while for the 155MBs - currently at 7%. I had to update my Skydrive download site anyhow.

On the Vista Waik question I cannot help you. I have no clue.

How are you coming with the little Lumia.

 

[essenbe]

Well, with what little I'll do with it, I'm doing OK. I have a 32GB SD card coming Monday and can set it up better then I think. I have no idea how people respond to threads on SF from their phones though. LOL. I haven't set up email yet. but, for the most part, I'm OK. I'll work with the maps soon and figure that out, but so far I like it.