Imaging with free Macrium

Volumes etc..Maybe this explains it?
Logical volume management - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Anak said:

• Windows PE rescue media: This rescue environment is a Windows-based environment which injects the necessary drivers, Macrium Reflect components and tools to enable you to recover your system. Windows PE environments generally have better hardware support and allow you to perform functionality such as ReDeploying your system, fixing windows boot issues. There are two possible choices for PE environment which are summarised in the following table:

PE Version
Description
4.0
Created using the Windows ADK, this is a Windows 8 based PE environment with support for later hardware, UEFI boot and Secure Boot systems.
3.1
Created using the Windows AIK, this is a Windows 7 based PE environment which may work better on some legacy systems, or may be useful if drivers are not available for your Windows 8 hardware.

Source: Create a Windows PE Rescue Environment

From Anak:

But, you can find discussion on the web that 4.0 is more backward compatible and will work with 7, Vista, and XP - than 3.1 is forward for Windows 8 and 8.1

Hi Anak,

I will most likely go with 3.1 for consistency with Windows 7. Thanks!

Anak said:

Volume:
A fixed amount of storage on a disk or tape. The term volume is often used as a synonym for the storage medium itself, but it is possible for a single disk to contain more than one volume or for a volume to span more than one disk

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You buy a 1TB HDD it has a 1TB volume, and you can add "partitions" after you get it installed.

A physical book on one subject is a volume.
The chapters in that book are the partitions.

The wiggle room comes in with something like an Encyclopedia where a subject could span between volumes

I normally do not get confused with Drive vs. Disk, Drive vs. Partition, or Disc vs. Disk, but Partition vs. Volume, I have been.
So I see, the keyword is "fixed". I will remember that. A nice analogy you have there.

whs said:

Kathy, you are on an old, old version of Macrium. We are on version 5 now.

Hi whs,

I believe I am not on an old version. I am currently on Version 5.2 Build 6444. :)

Well, then you are up-to-date. I only saw versions 3 and 4 on your earlier post.

kado897 said:

I think the problem here John is that a partition can be all or part of a drive and that a drive can contain more than one partition. It is not a good idea to create an image of a partition to another partition on the same drive. If there is a problem on the drive it quite likely will affect all partitions so you will have lost your backup as well as the original..

Got that - I was reading into it something that had eluded me

For the record I always use another drive for the backup as I get really muddled partitioning especially when it comes to allocated non allocated etc etc. Probably should do a bit more reading.

@whs:
Odd, I don't recall posting version numbers haha. Maybe it wasn't me. But hey, just looking for a spare DVD here and the rescue disc will be up in my recovery kit. Thanks for the tut!

kathy025 said:

@whs:
Odd, I don't recall posting version numbers haha. Maybe it wasn't me. But hey, just looking for a spare DVD here and the rescue disc will be up in my recovery kit. Thanks for the tut!

Kathy, look at the first picture in post 791. I got it from there. And I assumed your PE version = your Macrium version. Sorry for the confusion.

Ah, no prob whs. :)

whs said:

the corresponding .iso from my Skydrive

May I ask what PE version and for what architecture (x86/x64) is the ISO in your SkyDrive?

It is V5.2 for x64

Ahaha, you mixed up WinPE version (3.1/4.0) and Macrium version (5.2) again. ^_^;

But I guess, PE 3.1 or 4.0 should do just fine. Good to know it's for x64. Thanks!