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My excuse for not getting anything done today was to meet up with an old friend I haven't seen in two years.
- I am going to be bouncing off the walls for the next 72 hours ... all that coffee
My excuse for not getting anything done today was to meet up with an old friend I haven't seen in two years.
- I am going to be bouncing off the walls for the next 72 hours ... all that coffee
I watched both the Macrium Imaging tutorial video (thanks, Wolfgang!) and Keith's Macrium Recovery tutorial video and I have a follow up question.
I was trying to do my Test Image restore, and as I went through the steps, I was never offered the option regarding whether I wanted to restore the MBR or not - it was just a Yes. Since I was restoring a partition that only contained data files, I didn't think it should have an MBR so I stopped at that point.
I have attached a PDF that shows the sequence of steps (not all of them, but the key ones). I have also attached a poor quality screen shot of the key point where it tells me the MBR will be restored.
Here's my question - am I supposed to restore an MBR in this situation? Or, if not, how do I prevent it?
Thanks in advance for your help.
Nah, You need not restore the MBR for a data partition. The only reason to restore the MBR would be if the pointer to the active partition (that's the one that has the bootmgr) would be corrupted. But that is rarely the case - at least I have never seen that.
I didn't think I needed to restore it - but I couldn't find a way to tell it NOT to do so - I did not see a check box or link or Yes/No or any other way to select whether this happens.
Maybe I missed it ... this is my first time trying to do it, that's why I added the PDF with the 4 screen shots in it.
If you can tell me where in the sequence of the Recovery process this option is offered, I will go back through it and complete my test
:)
As always, thanks for your help.
PS - if the fact that Macrium doesn't give me the choice about restoring the MBR is somehow related to the whole "two active partitions" thread that I started elsewhere (yes, I'm THAT one) then I'll go fix that first and then come back and redo this test with a fresh test image
Yes that's the way. I guess that the default is yes because you are usually restoring a system disk.
This is one of the reasons why I preferred the Reflect v4 GUI.
The Restore Wizard exposed these various options, instead of relying on the user to discover the settings hidden behind tiny links.
That's interesting. I have just checked what my defaults are and it is "Do not restore". I wonder whether that is something I changed in V4 or V5 and it carried forwards or whether that is the default.
I'm completely missing something here (or I'm just not awake yet). Why would anyone not want to restore the MBR? When I image my boot drive or partition (depending on the machine), I image the C: and MBR together as one image so, when I do a restore, I restore both. It's not like the tiny, little MBR is going to noticeably add to imaging and restoration times.