Solved Easeus todo for images?

[Scottyboy99]

Yep, a 39 year old who will never grow up, lol! I do appreciate all the help but as you can guess I am doing my best to avoid re install and having to start over. I'm trying reflect again and have ticked the option to ignore bad sectors. A pondering out of left field but I have network drives mapped. If one of those is dodgy could that be unsettle the system - I suspect this is highly unlikely.

 

[DavidE]

Do you have a pagefile on the drive ? To create a dump file a pagefile is needed on [C].

 

[Scottyboy99]

Yeah I think it's enabled, this is what I see setup. I've never touched anything like this.

I'm just trying your suggestion in macrium to ignore bad sectors in the advanced options. Will see how that gets on!

 

[DavidE]

Click on the Change... button in your screen print and it will show info for each partition (drive).

 

[Scottyboy99]

Oaky, I've attached. It's on auto at the moment. Strange Z is listed, that's a mapped network drive.

Macrium failed again. System froze up at same 95% point despite tweaking those options and ensuring it ignores bad sectors.

 

[Scottyboy99]

The only thing I've added of any note since last successful image and restore from is Hauppauge capture and the drivers for the capture device. I'll try uninstalling it and having another go. But I doubt it's the reason. I think i'll have to try the image again tomorrow night. My wife's getting cross with the amount of time I spending with the laptop. She must think I've got another woman on the go, lol!

This is extremely unlikely, but is your Windows fully updated and have you made successful images of your entire drive of late? Mine is fully updated but maybe there is a remote possibility some Windows update is to blame as occasionally MS drop the ball. Of course if you've imaged just fine in relatively recent memory then that ends that theory

Computers, I love them and loathe them all at the same time!!!

Cheers,
Wayne

 

[DavidE]

System Managed is fine, and the preferred/recommended setting.

Right now I suggest NOT making any system/driver changes unless the experts in your BSOD thread suggest doing it.
It seems you are getting somewhere in that thread with the HD Tune issue.
Making changes they don't know about could cause confusion for what they see.

Post any new info there you find, but let them know before making changes.

I have no idea what having the Z mapped Network drive means, or if it even matters for the BSOD issue.

 

[Scottyboy99]

Ok understood. I will focus on that thread now. It has been speculated the HD is damaged/bad as certain parameters are unreadable in HD tune such as temperature and health check. Of course I will update this particular thread with a final outcome whether it be successful or not.

Thanks, Wayne

 

[DavidE]

This is extremely unlikely, but is your Windows fully updated and have you made successful images of your entire drive of late? Mine is fully updated but maybe there is a remote possibility some Windows update is to blame as occasionally MS drop the ball. Of course if you've imaged just fine in relatively recent memory then that ends that theory

Yes, i keep my systems fully updated, and haven't had any problems creating backup images with Macrium.
I do NOT install some updates (and hide them) that are for the Win 10 upgrade if i don't want that OS to upgrade.

 

[mjf]

Have you tried to create an image ignoring bad sectors like I advised?
Have you actually carried out a full disk scan yet using "Scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors".
If you have non recoverable bad sectors then your HDD needs replacing and this will give you the opportunity to include an important 4th partition for data.

 

[Scottyboy99]

Yes I tried an image with ignore bad sectors as advised and it still did the same at exactly same point. I haven't done the other scan yet. It has been speculated on the BSOD forum my problem might be because my disk is too full with only 10% left and to free up space. So from 70gb free approx out of 679 I have cleared off lots of media to get another 60 gb back. That took me a while so I'll try the image again tomorrow evening. It's funny as in normal use its perfect and I don't think I've ever had a BSOD in five years. Anyway time will tell. I also uninstalled the Hauppauge capture device software and drivers for the capture device which is the only notable addition since my last image.

Cheers, Wayne

 

[Lifewalker]

Wayne, You could try to run chkdsk and Macrium both from disc. Chkdsk will be more thorough without the locked files of a running system. Not sure if you have tried making an image of the system from the Macrium disc itself with the operating system off, it can make images as well as restore them. The Macrium imaging function really should finish with the system shut down.
Here is Shawn's guide on how to make a Windows 7 repair disc:
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/2083-system-repair-disc-create.html
Here is a visual walk through of chkdsk from the University of Wisconsin Knowledge Base:
https://kb.wisc.edu/page.php?id=6565
When you are at X:\Sources> you can type DISKPART then press enter,
then type list volume and press enter to see exactly what drive letter the OS is on,
it won't necessarily be C: drive while you are running from the disk.
Make sure you type exit and press enter to leave DISKPART.
While you're there might as well run the System File checker as well.
Again at X:\Sources> type:
sfc /scannow /offbootdir=?:\ /offwindir=?:\windows
Then press enter and wait until finished. The actual drive letter the OS is on replaces the red question marks. Notice the space between: \ & /
Crystal Disk Info is another HD checker, this is the portable version from Major Geeks with no adware:
Download CrystalDiskInfo - MajorGeeks
Hope this helps.

 

[Andyrids]

Sorry I have not read the whole thread but I assume you have bad sectors on the HDD you are trying to make an image of ?
The only program I have found to reliably make an image in that situation is Drive Image XML free download from here DriveImage XML Backup Software - Data Recovery Product this even worked when the HDD had a sticky read arm.

 

[Scottyboy99]

Yes there are bad sectors - I think the machine was on borrowed time (I had a gpu issue too) and I have decided to just replace it with a smaller laptop at some stage. Unfortunately my wife is ready to throw it out the window anyway given the amount of time I have wasted on it!!! It's a shame but the 17 inch laptop size hardly made it a mobile machine and was always tethered to a desk. When I get a new one I will look to use macrium instead of microsofts own though - I guess a new machine will have Windows 10 pre loaded on it, not impressed with the OS one bit as we have it on a desktop machine. It's a bug fest but I guess it's the future and there is no avoiding it forever. Cheers for all the help guys