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+ to WHS advice. Your system active is also your "Boot" (Windows) partition.
Windows Imaging is a good additional imaging tool that takes care of these little things like MBR and correct active partition.
+ to WHS advice. Your system active is also your "Boot" (Windows) partition.
Windows Imaging is a good additional imaging tool that takes care of these little things like MBR and correct active partition.
Thank you very much, i imaged with free-macrium, setting C: as active, and the hidden-vaio-partition as primary. If i have to restore it in the future, i think i'll come back to this forum and ask again for getting things clear.
Again, thanks for your time and answers ! Good job helping the others :)
Windows 7, SP1, IE-9
When Restoring a backed up Image, how do you select an Image that has 3 partitions on a single Hard Drive?
My Hard Drive is comprised of a System Partition (100)MB; a "C" Partition with the Operating System (Windows 7), Programs, Documents, and the Factory Restore Partition. Macrium Backup & Restore displays all of the separate patitions for my drive. When trying to do a restore I can only select 1 partition at a time. Is this normal or is there a way to restore the complete image at once?
Thanks for any help
This is normal. I believe that with Macrium you need to restore them one at a time. At least I always have.
Absolutely, kado is right. You can image multiple partitions in one run but you can only restore each one at a time.
Windows 7SP-1, 64Bit, IE-9
Thanks for that info. I'm new to Macrium Reflect. I just crapped a restore on my computer. I choose to restore only the System & "C" Partitions and when it all finished I had a black screen with an active cursor, but nothing else. Nothing would activate. Better said, would be, Windows did not load, nor did I get to the Desktop. I was able to shut down the computer, and restore with Acronis True Image which I am more familiar with. The Backup I used had been Validated. I did skip the offer to re-Validate the image before restore so was this wise? Also, could skipping the restore of the Factory partition have had an adverse effect on the restore? Again, thanks for any help or info.
Whenever I have had to restore with Macrium. I have just restored System and C and done so without problem.
You can use Diskrestore to do the whole lot at once - but you need to put it on your winpe boot media.
download diskrestore.msi
When restoring with Macrium with the separate system reserved partition and you are restoring both system reserved and C:, you must select
System reserved = active
C: (Boot,.. the OS) = NOT active
I generally say "yes" to replacing the backup MBR when replacing the system reserved but in most cases the MBR will be the same.
Add: Each to their own but I find restoring one partition at a time not a hassle. It has an advantage in seeing your success or otherwise one partition at a time.
Coop1, SIW2
(SIW2 you prompted my search)
there appears to be an exe you can run now from an existing pe disk.
http://kb.macrium.com/KnowledgebaseA...ywords=Restore
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