Imaging with free Macrium

Dave76 · 19 Mar 2012

That's good to know, thanks whs.

mjf · 19 Mar 2012

whs said:

Yes, that is true. You can image to USB3 but not recover from it. Neither with the Linux disc nor with the WinPE disc. I had to switch my enclosure the other day when I wanted to recover one of my laptops. Fortunately I use open enclosures with bare bone HDDs. If you have an enclosed USB3 disk, then you have a problem. eSata, however, works.

USB3 recovery works fine for me. It's how I reimaged to my new SSD. You need to install the USB3 drivers either manually each time or automatically by adding them to the base winpe.wim.
See here
Problem recoverying from backup via USB 3.0 external drive

whs · 19 Mar 2012

mjf said:

whs said:

Yes, that is true. You can image to USB3 but not recover from it. Neither with the Linux disc nor with the WinPE disc. I had to switch my enclosure the other day when I wanted to recover one of my laptops. Fortunately I use open enclosures with bare bone HDDs. If you have an enclosed USB3 disk, then you have a problem. eSata, however, works.

USB3 recovery works fine for me. It's how I reimaged to my new SSD. You need to install the USB3 drivers either manually each time or automatically by adding them to the base winpe.wim.
See here
Problem recoverying from backup via USB 3.0 external drive

Michael, you are too advanced. But thank you for the tip. It should work though out of the box. Not many people will apply the drivers the way you did. No idea why the Macrium people could not make that default.

mjf · 19 Mar 2012

Wolfgang, I would think Macrium could include it.

JerometheGiraff · 27 Mar 2012

I purchased Macrium Professional v5. Hoping to get started and create a back up, I've run into a problem to which none of Macrium knowledge base has helped, and Macrium is blaming the VSS problem on Windows. This problem does not happen with Macrium Free Edition only Macrium Paid Editions.

Macrium Knowledge Base

whs · 27 Mar 2012

There are many cases where the VSS service failed. That is the service that also creates restore points. Check whether you can create restore points in your system. You can try a sfc /scannow or a startup repair to fix it.

JerometheGiraff · 27 Mar 2012

sfc /scannow fails
Windows Resource Protection could not preform the request operation.

Could this be the reason why Macrium is failing to do the backup ?

whs · 27 Mar 2012

If the System File Checker fails, then you have a bigger problem. You should try a startup repair

JerometheGiraff · 28 Mar 2012

There are no start-up issues to fix ! I already registered the VCC files once again, and a few other things as mentioned in the knowledge base link that I posted from Macrium.

mjf · 28 Mar 2012

If you have a system reserved then for Windows imaging you need enough space on that partition to create shadow copies of the partition (generally 50MB free).
I'm not sure if Macrium also requires this.
If you have a system reserved you can try this:
Both "System reserved" and "C" partition cloned to external HDD: boot?

RE: The sfc /scannow issue have you googled this?
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/w...c-685c7bf1614e