Restoring Macrium Reflect

[bigmck]

A week or so ago I was getting an error when trying to create a System Restore point. I tried a couple things and it didn't help. It then hit me that I will just do an image restore from Macrium. I had never done a restore before, but I have been faithfully backing up my docs everyday and my OS once a week. My backup OS partition will only hold six backups so when it gets full I delete the oldest three. As luck would have it I only had three backups at this point, but no problem. One is all I need. I tried the newest image and a prompt came up that it was corrupt. No problem, I had two more. The next one came up corrupt also. Well I was beginning to worry now. The third one restored OK. After thinking about this I did do one thing different with the third one. == On the first two the restore disk ejected from my DVD, I closed the drawer with the disk still in it. On the third one, I took the disk out and closed the drawer. Would this have been the reason that the first two did not restore properly? Thanks,

 

[ignatzatsonic]

Would this have been the reason that the first two did not restore properly? Thanks,

I wouldn't be surprised.

Imaging is very very touchy and not always explainable.

A couple of months ago, I made a new image with Macrium and thought I'd make a new Macrium rescue boot disk as well. I had to make 3 different boot disks to get one that would in fact boot my PC. I had to use "debug" mode in the making of the disc.

It doesn't inspire confidence, but I don't know what you can do about it.

Just accept it for what it is, expect to have problems, and plan on reinstalling Windows. If you don't have to, good, but I keep my expectations low and back up my data in other ways.

 

[whs]

Hmm, that has never happened to me. And I have done at least 50 recoveries with free Macrium.

Did you by any chance change the compression from Medium. It could also be the disk to where you image. That's why I always image to 3 different disk (alternatively). The recovery CD should not be at fault because it ultimately worked.

I recommend to keep at least 10 images as backup and use at least 2 different disksfor the images.

 

[bigmck]

Thanks for the input. No, I didn't change the ratio. The first two might have been bad. It just seem strange, that is why I asked. Thanks,