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Re: Another dumb question? Re Macrium

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On Fri, 2/14/2025 1:55 PM, Frank Slootweg wrote:
> Jim the Geordie <jim@jimxscott.co.uk> wrote:
>> I'm toying with the notion of creating a Backup using Macrium Reflect 8 
>> Free.
>> Just suppose my internal hard drive suffers a fault and I need to use my 
>> backup created with Macrium to restore it. (Assume that I have created a 
>> rescue disc and my backup is on an external HDD)
>> Question: if my hard drive is compromised, how would I get to the 
>> Macrium file to start the rescue process?
> 
>   You boot from the rescue disc you made and that offers a Macrium
> environment which you can use to restore the image file(s) from your
> external HDD.
> 
>   Just try it, Boot from the resue disc and look around. As long as you
> don't do an actual restore, there's no harm in seeing what it looks
> like.
> 

The rescue disc is perfectly harmless.

The average computer (from the DVD era) will have
the DVD drive as the first item in the list, followed
by hard drive or whatever. It shouldn't even require
using popup boot, if you use an actual DVD.

If you make a USB stick, then you might have to use
the popup boot key (F8 on Asus), to select the Macrium USB Stick.

If you use Rufus to make a USB stick from a Macrium ISO, that
should work also. Still requires popup boot key, as USB booting
is not generally a full-time option in the BIOS. (There are
a few different BIOS behaviors.)

The WinPE/WinRE based media, prepares a RAMdisk drive X: and
loads the contents of the boot.wim in it. This leaves C: available
for a "real" C: if one is about. the high drive letter of the boot
OS, is to make more room for the user. They leave Z: open so you can
access a file share from the Macrium Explorer menu and make that Z: .
I sometimes do restores across the LAN, using storage on the
other machine.

Once the WIM file is transferred into X: and the DVD light stops
flashing, you can eject the DVD. Similarly, you could pull out the
USB stick (but there is no rush). The reason for thinking about the
DVD, is you might want to pop the DVD before clicking the Shutdown
item.

*******

Using the WinRE is a relatively new option for Macrium. They use the
reagentc /info command to determine/locate where the WinRE.wim is stored.
If yours is disabled or misfortune has befallen it, then you'll be
using the option in the next paragraph. The WinRE materials
can be used to make a boot OS (as they are used as an emergency OS
for the regular operating system). .

The normal method, is to download a portion of a WADK kit and make
boot media from a WinPE and associated WIM. They can also add drivers
based on the version of the WADK kit. For example, if the WADK kit
is from the W11 era, there might just be a Realtek 2.5GbE NIC driver
in there. My USB stick for Macrium lacks that right now, and
a couple Linux OSes didn't have the driver for it either. I have
a USB3 to Ethernet I use for such occasions, and the Macrium media
has the driver for that no problem. If using WADK, WInPE 5 is the minimum,
WinPE 10 also works, and both have USB3 drivers. You need USB3 drivers for
your external HDD enclosure, and USB3 has fast enough transfer rates,
to make it worth living. If you are stuck with USB2 rates,
then head off and take a nap while it runs, as that is 35MB/sec.
You'd be surprised how many people do backups at 35MB/sec :-/
The naps must be good ones.

   Paul

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