In message , Paul
writes:
J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
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Do later Macrium CDs have universal USB3 drivers like Windows 10
does? (Or does that to some extent depend on the version of Windows
that's on the machine where you make the Macrium CD?)
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Well, actually, the Macrium approach is interesting.

They've made a change to how the emergency CDs are made.

(When - about when Windows 10 came out?)
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However, a fifth option is for the preparation scheme
to extract a WinPE off the drive with C: on it. They
have a search algorithm for locating a .wim they can
make a CD from. When I tested it, *it grabbed the wrong file*
and the results were hilarious. It mixed 64 bit materials
with 32 bit materials, and when the CD was booted,
the software would not run (because there would be
subsystems missing). In effect, it was running
64-bit macrium.exe on a 32-bit WinPE OS.

So far, I've had no problems using the Macrium 5 mini-CDs (a 32 and a 64
bit version) I made on my XP system - using them on XP (32-bit
hardware), Win7-64, 7-32, and 10, with USB2 peripherals, including (for
one of the 7-64 systems) a FAT peripheral (so it made a multifile image;
worked transparently). I've recently spotted that the external dock I
use for myself has an e-SATA port, and since the 7-32 laptop I'm now on
does also, I'll investigate that next time I image (still using the M5
CD).
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The best approach, is to make sure you've selected
the WinPE version (Win8 or Win10) that have the built-in
USB3 driver, as that's a better choice when you want
the performance benefits of full USB3 operation. Stick
with the old method, select WinPE10 (as long as your
operating system will allow the WADK kit to run from
that version selection).

So the selection of WinPE version (is that the same as WADK?) is
independent of the version of Windows you're running under when you make
the CD? And (whatever the answer to that question) you need to (be under
or select) an 8 or later to have a USB3 driver on the CD?

It's getting to the point, it's hard for me to write
a tutorial with all these details covered off properly :-/

Paul

I can see that. We're all very grateful for the ones you have made!
--
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

Listen, three-eyes, don't you try to out-wierd me, I get stranger things than
you free with my breakfast cereal. (Zaphod Beeblebrox in the link episode)