System Imaging Tool W7

Yes Acronis works just fine , I have included it in my winpe3 boot disc ( the free version, that is )

I also included Paragon Virtual Server - fantastic app. - not free tho. http://www.paragon-software.com/business/hdm-server-vs/

richnrockville said:

Another vote for Acronis, friend called at 9am, his system crashed when the power glitched. No way to get to hard disk, no recovery available. I had made an image with acronis last saturday and it took exactly 15 minutes to restore his C drive from an image I had put on his D. worked. and I was back home by 10.

rich

Hi mjf,

Commercial imaging apps. don't make any distinction between images made in a 32 or 64 bit environment.

Only windows system image GUI does that


You won't have any trouble using the macrium pebuilder.

mjf said:

kado897 said:

The problem here is I have the 64bit version.

So do I. But I'll doing a bit more checking myself now on potential issues.
I've been able to mount my old images and make them ok.

kado897 said:

The problem here is I have the 64bit version.

It doesn't matter,

d/l the 32 bit recovery iso from here Download Windows 7 System Recovery Discs — The NeoSmart Files

Then follow this:

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I just did it - took 5mins - here's a screenie:



Use macrium command link to access regedit, taskmgr, notepad, diskpart etc.

SIW2 said:

Hi mjf,

Commercial imaging apps. don't make any distinction between images made in a 32 or 64 bit environment.

Only windows system image GUI does that


You won't have any trouble using the macrium pebuilder.

mjf said:

kado897 said:

The problem here is I have the 64bit version.

So do I. But I'll doing a bit more checking myself now on potential issues.
I've been able to mount my old images and make them ok.

Yes, but I had to make sure so I used the Hirens macrium pe to reimage my system (51GB) from a Macrium image made on 23 Jan 11 - it worked fine.
Came back to the present with a Windows image.

Nevertheless, I downloaded WAIK a while ago and will probably try making my own pe - you make it look relatively straightforward.

*** For those caught out keep Hiren's in mind***

SIW2 said:

If you have run off the 32 bit win7 recovery disc, put it in the cd drive, rt click cd drive, copy, rt click HD paste.
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NOTE:

If you don't have a 32 bit wim , d/l the 32 bit recovery .iso from Neosmart,

Download Windows 7 System Recovery Discs — The NeoSmart Files

extract it with 7-zip

My system is 64-bit Windows 7 that presumably creates a 64-bit recovery disk; it seems to me that this is the version I'd need since Macrium files that I have access to are 64-bit as well. Would that be correct?

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