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The issue I ran across is apparently the same as in:
http://www.sevenforums.com/performa...e-5-0-4118-need-help-recover-partition-2.html
So I had to restore my system to my SSD drive which I just secure erased. I have many drives on my system. I booted to the Macrium rescue CD, selected the backup image from one of my bacjup drives, went to the next page and selected the target drive - my SSD, drive 4, then went to a confirmation screen. Scrolling down I see it has as the target drive drive 3, one of my data drives! (if I would have went blindly on, you will see, it would have wiped my data drive).
So not knowing which was correct, I shut my PC down and disconnected all drives but the one with the image and the SSD drive, made sure all USB drives were disconnected (my phone had been). I then booted from the rescue CD, choose the image, choose the target (it correctly only gave me a choice of the SSD), then went to the confirmation page and the target was the backup drive with the image! Well, I thought what the heck, they SURELY won't format the disk with the selected image. WRONG! it formatted the backup drive and asked me for an image to restore, since it no longer had one. Sigh.
Well I had the foresight to have made an image with Windows 7 backup and restore as well, so was able to get back in business (after several trails and tribulations with it).
Note that with just an image on a backup disk and a target disk, I would not have been able to restore the Macrium image (I could have tricked it to selecting the right target by selecting the wrong one with multiple disks attached, but wouldn't trust that)!
So be careful and make sure you look at the selected target in the confirmation screen, it may not be what you selected. If you use the free versions of Macrium, you may want to do a dry run of sa restore up to the confirmation screen to see if you can actually do a restore.
Just to note I have restored from Macrium before with no problems. I don't know if it doesn't handle some system configurations correctly or if it is the version of the software.
I will need to check and see if the version of the rescue CD is the same as the current version of the software and if not, I will make a new rescue cd and do a dry run and report back here.
http://www.sevenforums.com/performa...e-5-0-4118-need-help-recover-partition-2.html
So I had to restore my system to my SSD drive which I just secure erased. I have many drives on my system. I booted to the Macrium rescue CD, selected the backup image from one of my bacjup drives, went to the next page and selected the target drive - my SSD, drive 4, then went to a confirmation screen. Scrolling down I see it has as the target drive drive 3, one of my data drives! (if I would have went blindly on, you will see, it would have wiped my data drive).
So not knowing which was correct, I shut my PC down and disconnected all drives but the one with the image and the SSD drive, made sure all USB drives were disconnected (my phone had been). I then booted from the rescue CD, choose the image, choose the target (it correctly only gave me a choice of the SSD), then went to the confirmation page and the target was the backup drive with the image! Well, I thought what the heck, they SURELY won't format the disk with the selected image. WRONG! it formatted the backup drive and asked me for an image to restore, since it no longer had one. Sigh.
Well I had the foresight to have made an image with Windows 7 backup and restore as well, so was able to get back in business (after several trails and tribulations with it).
Note that with just an image on a backup disk and a target disk, I would not have been able to restore the Macrium image (I could have tricked it to selecting the right target by selecting the wrong one with multiple disks attached, but wouldn't trust that)!
So be careful and make sure you look at the selected target in the confirmation screen, it may not be what you selected. If you use the free versions of Macrium, you may want to do a dry run of sa restore up to the confirmation screen to see if you can actually do a restore.
Just to note I have restored from Macrium before with no problems. I don't know if it doesn't handle some system configurations correctly or if it is the version of the software.
I will need to check and see if the version of the rescue CD is the same as the current version of the software and if not, I will make a new rescue cd and do a dry run and report back here.
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My Computer
At a glance
Windows 10 Pro. EFI boot partition, full EFI ...i7 4770k 4.4GHz (44-44-43-43 turbo) @ 1.248V16GB (8GBx2) @2200 MHz G.skill Sniper 10-11-1...MSI GTX 970 Gaming 4G
- Computer type
- PC/Desktop
- Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
- Home built (GeneO industries)/Model 4
- OS
- Windows 10 Pro. EFI boot partition, full EFI boot
- CPU
- i7 4770k 4.4GHz (44-44-43-43 turbo) @ 1.248V
- Motherboard
- ASUS Maximus VI Hero
- Memory
- 16GB (8GBx2) @2200 MHz G.skill Sniper 10-11-10-30-1, 1.6V
- Graphics Card(s)
- MSI GTX 970 Gaming 4G
- Sound Card
- Onboard SupremeFX Audio
- Monitor(s) Displays
- NEC Spectraview 2490WUXi-SV
- Screen Resolution
- 1920 x 1200
- Hard Drives
- Samsung 850 Pro 256GB (OS), Samsung 2x 128GB 840 Pro SSD in RAID0, 3x WD Blue 6Gb/s 1TB RAID0, WD 2TB Black external USB 3.0, 2TB WD20EARS Green external USB 3.0, 2x 500GB Seagate and 1 750 GB external USB, 1x 350GB external USB3
- PSU
- Seasonic X-850 (2012 KM3 model)
- Case
- Fractal Design Define R4
- Cooling
- NH-D14, NF-F12, NF-A15; NF-P14, NF-P12,NF-A14, S12A PWM
- Keyboard
- Cooler Master Storm Quickfire Rapid - Brown
- Mouse
- Logitech G602
- Internet Speed
- 126.4 Mb/s down, 24.3 Mb/s up
- Other Info
- USB 3.0 x8 , SATA III x8, eSATA, USB 2.0 x6. Samsung DVD R/W drive.
WEI: CPU 7.8, Memory 7.9, Graphics 7.9, Disk 7.9
