Imaging with free Macrium


  1. Posts : 10,455
    Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit Service Pack 1
       #1030

    I uses the Windows task scheduler so if there is a problem with that it may also fail. Looking at the entry it has created for mine, only the path to the xml file is in quotes.
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    Microsoft Windows 10 Pro 64-bit Multiprocessor
       #1031

    Thank you whs and Britton30 for your replies. However there seems to be some misunderstanding. As I said in the opening post of my thread I have only recently become aware of Macrium so am still on a bit of a learning curve and may have missed something. I did NOT use Windows Task Scheduler directly, but followed the tutorial "Scheduling a backup" under Macrium Help, which creates the scheduled task but according to the video it uses the inbuilt Windows Task Scheduler. So I feel that I have done exactly as you suggest and scheduled the backups from within MR. I have also edited (e.g. changed the scheduled run times) them by right clicking and making changes.
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  3. Posts : 248
    Windows 7 Ultimate x64
       #1032

    The recovery video tutorial looks nice but it shows how to do it from within a "working" Windows OS but what happens when I cannot start Windows?
    I guess the PE recovery disk would help but how does it work?
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  4. Posts : 12,012
    Windows 7 Home Premium SP1, 64-bit
       #1033

    looked said:
    The recovery video tutorial looks nice but it shows how to do it from within a "working" Windows OS but what happens when I cannot start Windows?
    I guess the PE recovery disk would help but how does it work?
    When you can't start Windows, you boot from the recovery disk, then navigate to your previously made image file. Then select the destination to which you want to restore. Then restore. If it goes as expected, you can then boot from that destination partition.

    You can make a WinPE recovery disk or a Linux recovery disk, both from within Macrium. The WinPE disk is much preferred as it is less prone to problems, particularly driver issues.

    The WinPE disk will land you in the exact same interface you would see if you started Macrium from your C drive. The Linux disk takes you to a slow, cryptic, text-based interface.

    I haven't looked at the tutorial, but the "working Windows OS" you refer to is probably a boot from the WinPE disk. That's what you see--a Windows environment.

    Regardless of which type of recovery disk you have, you need to make sure it will boot your PC. If it won't, you cannot restore.
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  5. Posts : 248
    Windows 7 Ultimate x64
       #1034

    ignatzatsonic said:
    When you can't start Windows, you boot from the recovery disk, then navigate to your previously made image file. Then select the destination to which you want to restore. Then restore. If it goes as expected, you can then boot from that destination partition.

    You can make a WinPE recovery disk or a Linux recovery disk, both from within Macrium. The WinPE disk is much preferred as it is less prone to problems, particularly driver issues.

    The WinPE disk will land you in the exact same interface you would see if you started Macrium from your C drive. The Linux disk takes you to a slow, cryptic, text-based interface.

    I haven't looked at the tutorial, but the "working Windows OS" you refer to is probably a boot from the WinPE disk. That's what you see--a Windows environment.

    Regardless of which type of recovery disk you have, you need to make sure it will boot your PC. If it won't, you cannot restore.
    Thanks very much, that is definitely the WinPE boot screen.
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  6. Posts : 10,455
    Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit Service Pack 1
       #1035

    The recovery video was actually made in a virtual machine so that it could be recorded. In this case the virtual machine was booted from the PE disk rather than the real machine. It is exactly the same procedure if you boot your real machine from the PE disk.
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  7. Posts : 248
    Windows 7 Ultimate x64
       #1036

    kado897 said:
    The recovery video was actually made in a virtual machine so that it could be recorded. In this case the virtual machine was booted from the PE disk rather than the real machine. It is exactly the same procedure if you boot your real machine from the PE disk.
    Yes I think so otherwise how could he record the tutorial?
    I really wish that the image will work 100% because installing and setting Windows plus software, browser, plugins etc. etc. takes too much time!
    I had to buy a spare hard disk and temporary connect it as primary only to set up the new OS then I revert back to the old disk so that I can continue my work.
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  8. Posts : 10,455
    Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit Service Pack 1
       #1037

    In what way does the image not work 100%?
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    Desk1 7 Home Prem / Desk2 10 Pro / Main lap Asus ROG 10 Pro 2 laptop Toshiba 7 Pro Asus P2520 7 & 10
       #1038

    Have a little problem imaging to an external. I have wiped the drive formatted it even tried setting it as active but Macrium is telling me it doesn't exists even though it is in the Macrium listings and keeps asking me for a volume ??

    Anyway it's late and I shall pick up tomorrow.
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  10. whs
    Posts : 26,210
    Vista, Windows7, Mint Mate, Zorin, Windows 8
    Thread Starter
       #1039

    Make a folder on the external and target the image to that folder. No reason it should not work unless there is something screwy with the drive.
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