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Old May 5th 21, 11:42 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Paul[_32_]
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Robert in CA wrote:
The new mouse(s) arrived and I switched the 8500 mouse with a
new one thinking it might be the cause of problem I've been having
and I think it is. So far it's acting normally and not opening or closing
things I don't want it to. I did have to adjust the speed of this one as
it was way too sluggish at first and I felt it in my wrists immediately.

I started the 780 backup but ran out of space on the external hd so I
had to delete some older Mrimgs. During this process it showed this
for Mrimg 3-4-21which we wanted to use to restore the 780.

https://postimg.cc/xJ3PhGcB

So it looks as if I'll have to go back further for the 780 Mrimg 2-1-21 to
restore it.

While restoring the 780, I had a 'Build rescue media boot menu' pop up.
I didn't know what to do because this isn't in your instructions you gave
me previously so I cancelled the restore.

https://postimg.cc/nXXn00CS

Robert


https://forum.macrium.com/14596/XML-...1-is-not-valid

"A new Full should correct the problem
or you can edit the XML file"

If you were attempting a backup, using an existing (defined) backup
from the list of backup setups, then you need to make a new Full
and select the partitions you want backed up. You can only reuse
an existing definition from the menu, if it continues to match
the disk you are backing up. If you make too many changes, you
have to (somehow), make the disk match some definition file.
Editing the XML file sounds a bit over the top to me, when
the GUI can create another one for you.

*******

The existing backups (during Restore) are also going to be compared
to how the disk is partitioned currently. That's if you were partially
restoring the setup on there.

https://i.postimg.cc/CLQ47Rxn/restore-shows-config.gif

The image there, says "you can drag and drop". You're allowed
to restore one partition at a time, resize the partition
(don't make it too small though or there won't be enough
slack to boot).

You're in full control in a sense. But you have to keep your
wits about you.

If restoring one partition at a time, it is always possible the
system won't boot afterwards, but no problem, as the Macrium
CD has the boot repair menu, and putting a new MBR boot code
on it will probably fix it up.

When you restore, you can completely blow away the original
disk contents. Just tick all the boxes, select the disk you
want to use, click Next and away it goes. If it asks you
what configuration to keep, you would want to keep the
partition structure as defined in the backup.

But if you need to shoehorn like-partitions-in-like, you
can do that. Or even, click Back and resize the partition as
desired.

Using the Command Prompt window available in the lower left
of the Macrium screen during CD restore, you can even use
diskpart to clean off a disk drive.

diskpart
list disk
select disk 0
clean
exit
(close Command Prompt)

But if you're going to do that, you have to be damn sure
you're erasing the correct disk. The Macrium Restore is
marginally safer (as typically, the DiskID shown in the
upper pane of the Restore, will match the DiskID of the
disk you select for restore. As that's the disk it came
from in the first place.

*******

The "Make Rescue Media" thing happens, if you update the
version of Macrium, but have not made a new CD. I would
think any Version 6 CD should restore any Version 6 backup,
but I haven't tested that. But the newer versions can
have a different feature set, and if you made a backup
using Version 7 loaded on the C: drive, it would be
expecting a lot for a Version 6 CD to do the restore.
If running Version 7, I'd want at least one Version 7
CD kicking around the room. Then it's not going to
complain about the version, during the restore.

Since both my machines are roughly the same class,
a CD I make on one of them, typically works OK for the
other. Your machines would be in that ballpark as well,
as the 780 is 64-bit and has mostly modern peripheral
interfaces. Maybe the network driver might not work on
both, but then, you don't use restores from network shares,
and won't be facing a networking challenge as a result.
Your strategy uses external USB holders of backups, and
all that your CD needs as a result, is the appropriate
generic USB2 or USB3 driver (or both). And one of the
more modern choices of the list of WADK kits in the
Make Rescue Media menu, will give you something that
works on both machines. USB being generic, and say,
a Windows 8 era or Windows 10 era WADK download, will
have drivers for both USB2 and USB3 from Microsoft.

That has nothing to do with the OSes you're restoring,
which are both Windows 7. The boot CD does not "sniff"
the OS being restored, for such purposes. It's when the
Rescue CD is being prepared, some of the modern WADK
choices have the right drivers to mostly bring up the
hardware on your two machines. Then one CD is "good enough"
for both. I don't like to waste media here, as I suspect
if I go to the store, the selection will be extremely
poor. Since you can't buy a DVD drive at retail now,
there's hardly a reason for Ritek to continue making
DVD blanks. There are still some BluRay drives,
which burn all three disc types, but there aren't
a lot of choices left there either. So the small cake
box of media I have left, that's just about it.

Paul
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