I guess we are talking about Macrium 5.0.4870. I just updated my system and will update my Skydrive download site soon.
I have long been waiting for the USB3 support. Unfortunately I can only use it in November when I am back in Florida. On my systems here I have no USB3. One day I need to get a new box - LOL.
My Macrium .iso download page in Skydrive was updated to version 5.0.4870. The upload took forever, but it seems to be OK now.
The size is 154MB and the download took me appr. 8 minutes. That beats the WAIK download which takes several hours.
Nice of you whs.
BTW WAIK is different.
The SP1 supplement includes support for AFD.
I should be able to knock something up that will d/l the two winpe wims instead of the whole thing.
Hello, whs -
I've been using Macrium now for two years and its been a life savor. Thank You for your video and your help over the years, its been very helpful.
I had a couple questions only because I haven't had to do this before. I plan on picking up a new drive tomorrow, my old drive is 1TB and will be replaced with a smaller 500GB drive.
I made an image of my old drive its only about 45GB worth of data, which will be saved on external drive. Tomorrow, can I add the new drive to my PC, connect my external and use the Linux recovery CD to restore that image to the new drive.
The old drive was 1TB
New drive 500GB
Only restoring 45GB of data, but this will save me loads of time if its at all possible. If so what do I do in the recovery process because this time it different since its a brand new drive.
Best regards,
Eldin
My suggestion, and I've done this, would be to clone the 1T to the 500GB which will automatically resize the unused space to fit the 500GB. I did this and cloned a 500GB drive with 32GB of data to a 80GB drive.
I think an image would include the 1TB in total, but I may be wrong.
You will be better off using the WinPE recovery disk rather than Linux. The link to that is in whs's tutorial. You just need to burn it to a CD/DVD.
I think this may be the case for the free version as well.
All you need to do to be safe is reduced your source OS partition to something under 500GB before making the image then resize the partition back to its 1TB. Partition Wizard will do this easily.
When performing an image restore I would only have your new HDD connected. Note that both your 1TB and 500GB will have the same disk signature and cannot be connected at the same time (disk signature clash).
Hello,
nice! I never thought about that. I can surely reduce the the size of the OS partition.
Now, when it gets tricky is when selecting the partition to image. Would I only select the OS partition to image?
If so then once the new drive is in and I'm doing the restore process, how would it successful restore since this new drive never had windows and will not have the system reserve partition?
Do you suggest I tick both the system reserve and the OS partition. When ever I restored I just restored the OS image and didn't have to worry about that system reserve.
Best regards,
Eldin
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