Solved Macrium Image file 87 GB, can't browse files

[zeek]

I uploaded the wrong snip, but the file does have the proper extension as I changed the folder view to check. this is what happens when I click: watch it here

 

[whs]

Hmm, I have never seen such a behavior. Do you actually have Macrium installed on that system or are you working from the WinPE CD ??

 

[zeek]

I have Macrium installed on my wife's laptop which is what the screencast was made from. I just plugged in the external HDD and double clicked the mrimg file to mount . . .well you saw it

 

[whs]

Yeah, but if the image came from your PC, then you cannot mount it on the wife's laptop. I think I told you that.

Install Macrium on the system from where the images came and try again. That should work.

 

[zeek]

I tried that too and it does the same thing.....

 

[whs]

Try this. Make a new image on your wife's laptop to the external disk. Make a folder on the external disk and put the image into that folder (navigate in Macrium to that folder). Then see whether the mounting of that image gives you the same problem.

This whole story is very bizarre. We have to find the cause.

 

[zeek]

I imaged her laptop a few days ago and tried to mount and navigate her image file on both my computer and hers and I could browse files just fine. I feel like Bill Murray in groundhogs day, I click on the image and go in circles. I must have made the image wrong to begin with?

 

[whs]

I must have made the image wrong to begin with?

I think that is the case. Before you image again you might want to have a look at my tutorial:

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/73828-imaging-free-macrium.html?ltr=I

 

[zeek]

Well since all is lost, kind of, I am doing just that...playing around with it until it works, but I still wanto to know what in the world is in that 87 GB image . . .something is making it 87 GB

 

[whs]

Can you post a picture of your disk management. Maybe we can figure it out. An 87GB image corresponds to appr. 140GB of data.

 

[zeek]

No need I was able to restore the data from a another source, we are goo and thanks to all of you!!!!!