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Robert in CA wrote:
So, should I restore from a Mrimg because system restore and resetting Firefox didn't work. Thanks, Robert At this point, that seems a practical solution. Because I can't tell from here, exactly what is doing it. There's got to be something else on the machine besides the package tracker extension. Paul |
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On Monday, June 24, 2019 at 10:39:48 AM UTC-7, Paul wrote:
Robert in CA wrote: So, should I restore from a Mrimg because system restore and resetting Firefox didn't work. Thanks, Robert At this point, that seems a practical solution. Because I can't tell from here, exactly what is doing it. There's got to be something else on the machine besides the package tracker extension. Paul Ok,, am going to try and restore the OS with an Mrimg. will let you know how it goes. Robert |
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On Monday, June 24, 2019 at 10:39:48 AM UTC-7, Paul wrote:
Robert in CA wrote: So, should I restore from a Mrimg because system restore and resetting Firefox didn't work. Thanks, Robert At this point, that seems a practical solution. Because I can't tell from here, exactly what is doing it. There's got to be something else on the machine besides the package tracker extension. Paul I knew I was going to run into questions on this since I have never done it before. When I clicked browse for an image file I got the Mrimgs and the pop-up window (Backup selection)so which do I use? This isn't covered in your instructions. I suspect the Mrimg but what is the back-up pop-up? http://i67.tinypic.com/ka04dy.jpg Thanks, Robert |
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On Monday, June 24, 2019 at 10:39:48 AM UTC-7, Paul wrote: Robert in CA wrote: So, should I restore from a Mrimg because system restore and resetting Firefox didn't work. Thanks, Robert At this point, that seems a practical solution. Because I can't tell from here, exactly what is doing it. There's got to be something else on the machine besides the package tracker extension. Paul I knew I was going to run into questions on this since I have never done it before. When I clicked browse for an image file I got the Mrimgs and the pop-up window (Backup selection)so which do I use? This isn't covered in your instructions. I suspect the Mrimg but what is the back-up pop-up? http://i67.tinypic.com/ka04dy.jpg Thanks, Robert In the blue area on the right Browse Image Restore Image=== you want this one Verify Image Other actions You clicked the Browse Image button and that's where that dialog came from. Just cancel the dialog and use the Restore one, Paul |
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On Monday, June 24, 2019 at 12:15:09 PM UTC-7, Paul wrote:
Robert in CA wrote: On Monday, June 24, 2019 at 10:39:48 AM UTC-7, Paul wrote: Robert in CA wrote: So, should I restore from a Mrimg because system restore and resetting Firefox didn't work. Thanks, Robert At this point, that seems a practical solution. Because I can't tell from here, exactly what is doing it. There's got to be something else on the machine besides the package tracker extension. Paul I knew I was going to run into questions on this since I have never done it before. When I clicked browse for an image file I got the Mrimgs and the pop-up window (Backup selection)so which do I use? This isn't covered in your instructions. I suspect the Mrimg but what is the back-up pop-up? http://i67.tinypic.com/ka04dy.jpg Thanks, Robert In the blue area on the right Browse Image Restore Image=== you want this one Verify Image Other actions You clicked the Browse Image button and that's where that dialog came from. Just cancel the dialog and use the Restore one, Paul I tried again but didn't resize the partitions as they were the same size but I'm getting messages that aren't part of your instructions. I'm not sure what to do because your example was with a blank drive. http://i66.tinypic.com/zt6qnq.jpg http://i68.tinypic.com/jagsch.jpg What is a Windows PE rescue environment? I inserted a DVD-RW then got this message: http://i64.tinypic.com/mtmd05.jpg I'm totally lost. Robert |
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On Monday, June 24, 2019 at 12:15:09 PM UTC-7, Paul wrote: Robert in CA wrote: On Monday, June 24, 2019 at 10:39:48 AM UTC-7, Paul wrote: Robert in CA wrote: So, should I restore from a Mrimg because system restore and resetting Firefox didn't work. Thanks, Robert At this point, that seems a practical solution. Because I can't tell from here, exactly what is doing it. There's got to be something else on the machine besides the package tracker extension. Paul I knew I was going to run into questions on this since I have never done it before. When I clicked browse for an image file I got the Mrimgs and the pop-up window (Backup selection)so which do I use? This isn't covered in your instructions. I suspect the Mrimg but what is the back-up pop-up? http://i67.tinypic.com/ka04dy.jpg Thanks, Robert In the blue area on the right Browse Image Restore Image=== you want this one Verify Image Other actions You clicked the Browse Image button and that's where that dialog came from. Just cancel the dialog and use the Restore one, Paul I tried again but didn't resize the partitions as they were the same size but I'm getting messages that aren't part of your instructions. I'm not sure what to do because your example was with a blank drive. http://i66.tinypic.com/zt6qnq.jpg This looks like you're attempting to restore over top of a running C: partition. Just a guess on my part. You probably need to be booting the Macrium CD, where the Macrium CD version is the same as the version used to back up the image. This is why the program constantly pesters you to make an Emergency CD. However, don't fret, because if you use the Popup Boot Key on your machine, with the two disks installed inside the machine, you can boot the "clone" OS you keep on the backup drive, then do a restore of an image on the "clone" disk, over top of the now-not-running target disk. BOOT Backup-drive-with-its-own-C =====SATA======= | |Motherboard Normal-system-drive-needs-help =====SATA==== | If you have a Macrium CD, it looks like this. Backup-drive-with-its-own-C =====USB2======= | | Normal-system-drive-needs-help =====SATA==== |Motherboard | BOOT Optical-drive-Macrium-CD ===========SATA==== | The first diagram, requires removing the drive from the USB enclosure and placing it inside the PC needing work and using a SATA cable setup. If you have the Macrium CD, notice how much less work is required with your screwdriver set :-) http://i68.tinypic.com/jagsch.jpg What is a Windows PE rescue environment? I inserted a DVD-RW then got this message: http://i64.tinypic.com/mtmd05.jpg I'm not sure a WinPE added to the drive-needing-maintenance is all that much help. While they're inviting you to do that, if the restore replaces the whole drive, won't the WinPE get trashed ? I know it is RAM based, and "taking it out" during restore probably doesn't hurt it, but it strikes me as a bit risky. I've heard the Macrium environment access the CD, after the entire environment is stored in the ramdisk, so I don't know if a WinPE environment would even make an access while the target disk was being re-written. Are you sure you don't have a Macrium CD ? If you change Macrium versions (when enticed by the dialogs to do that), do you make fresh emergency boot media ? For example, if you go from Macrium 6 to Macrium 7, that's a good time to make a new CD. I'm totally lost. Robert I'm sure you'll figure this out. You're a pro at these now. When doing what you're doing, I use diagram #2 above. I have around half a dozen CDs now, with different versions, and the Version 7 disc will restore everything. Paul |
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On Monday, June 24, 2019 at 4:50:28 PM UTC-7, Paul wrote:
Robert in CA wrote: On Monday, June 24, 2019 at 12:15:09 PM UTC-7, Paul wrote: Robert in CA wrote: On Monday, June 24, 2019 at 10:39:48 AM UTC-7, Paul wrote: Robert in CA wrote: So, should I restore from a Mrimg because system restore and resetting Firefox didn't work. Thanks, Robert At this point, that seems a practical solution. Because I can't tell from here, exactly what is doing it. There's got to be something else on the machine besides the package tracker extension. Paul I knew I was going to run into questions on this since I have never done it before. When I clicked browse for an image file I got the Mrimgs and the pop-up window (Backup selection)so which do I use? This isn't covered in your instructions. I suspect the Mrimg but what is the back-up pop-up? http://i67.tinypic.com/ka04dy.jpg Thanks, Robert In the blue area on the right Browse Image Restore Image=== you want this one Verify Image Other actions You clicked the Browse Image button and that's where that dialog came from. Just cancel the dialog and use the Restore one, Paul I tried again but didn't resize the partitions as they were the same size but I'm getting messages that aren't part of your instructions. I'm not sure what to do because your example was with a blank drive. http://i66.tinypic.com/zt6qnq.jpg This looks like you're attempting to restore over top of a running C: partition. Just a guess on my part. You probably need to be booting the Macrium CD, where the Macrium CD version is the same as the version used to back up the image. This is why the program constantly pesters you to make an Emergency CD. However, don't fret, because if you use the Popup Boot Key on your machine, with the two disks installed inside the machine, you can boot the "clone" OS you keep on the backup drive, then do a restore of an image on the "clone" disk, over top of the now-not-running target disk. BOOT Backup-drive-with-its-own-C =====SATA======= | |Motherboard Normal-system-drive-needs-help =====SATA==== | If you have a Macrium CD, it looks like this. Backup-drive-with-its-own-C =====USB2======= | | Normal-system-drive-needs-help =====SATA==== |Motherboard | BOOT Optical-drive-Macrium-CD ===========SATA==== | The first diagram, requires removing the drive from the USB enclosure and placing it inside the PC needing work and using a SATA cable setup. If you have the Macrium CD, notice how much less work is required with your screwdriver set :-) http://i68.tinypic.com/jagsch.jpg What is a Windows PE rescue environment? I inserted a DVD-RW then got this message: http://i64.tinypic.com/mtmd05.jpg I'm not sure a WinPE added to the drive-needing-maintenance is all that much help. While they're inviting you to do that, if the restore replaces the whole drive, won't the WinPE get trashed ? I know it is RAM based, and "taking it out" during restore probably doesn't hurt it, but it strikes me as a bit risky. I've heard the Macrium environment access the CD, after the entire environment is stored in the ramdisk, so I don't know if a WinPE environment would even make an access while the target disk was being re-written. Are you sure you don't have a Macrium CD ? If you change Macrium versions (when enticed by the dialogs to do that), do you make fresh emergency boot media ? For example, if you go from Macrium 6 to Macrium 7, that's a good time to make a new CD. I'm totally lost. Robert I'm sure you'll figure this out. You're a pro at these now. When doing what you're doing, I use diagram #2 above. I have around half a dozen CDs now, with different versions, and the Version 7 disc will restore everything. Paul I'm OK at backups and creating Mrimgs but not restoring (as I said I have never done this before)and none of what I have seen is in your previous instructions you gave me. However,.. something weird has happened,... it seems the pop-ups have disappeared!? I'll monitor this all tonight to make sure,. but it's is odd. Invariably they always pop-up on Yahoo but I've checked repeatedly and none are showing up. Isn't that strange? Of course good news if true. I still would like to understand the restore process in case I ever need it. Yes, I was attempting to restore over my existing partition where in your example you enlarged the partition because it was a blank drive. So I did not know how to proceed? So are you and Macrium telling me I have to boot from my rescue CD? I think I need a new set of instructions for this not previously covered. As you said part of it may be risky, which is why I'm asking the questions. Usually like when making Mrimgs I follow your step by step instructions you gave me awhile back and I have no problems but this is different and isn't matching the instructions and there was no mention of a CD. I do have a rescue media on a cd-rw that I created on 7-27-15 and also Dell Data Safe (4) disks on DVD-R disk from 10-3-16 and a Win7 Pro Master on DVD-RW (no date). Thoughts/suggestions, Thanks, Robert |
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On Monday, June 24, 2019 at 5:49:06 PM UTC-7, Robert in CA wrote:
On Monday, June 24, 2019 at 4:50:28 PM UTC-7, Paul wrote: Robert in CA wrote: On Monday, June 24, 2019 at 12:15:09 PM UTC-7, Paul wrote: Robert in CA wrote: On Monday, June 24, 2019 at 10:39:48 AM UTC-7, Paul wrote: Robert in CA wrote: So, should I restore from a Mrimg because system restore and resetting Firefox didn't work. Thanks, Robert At this point, that seems a practical solution. Because I can't tell from here, exactly what is doing it. There's got to be something else on the machine besides the package tracker extension. Paul I knew I was going to run into questions on this since I have never done it before. When I clicked browse for an image file I got the Mrimgs and the pop-up window (Backup selection)so which do I use? This isn't covered in your instructions. I suspect the Mrimg but what is the back-up pop-up? http://i67.tinypic.com/ka04dy.jpg Thanks, Robert In the blue area on the right Browse Image Restore Image=== you want this one Verify Image Other actions You clicked the Browse Image button and that's where that dialog came from. Just cancel the dialog and use the Restore one, Paul I tried again but didn't resize the partitions as they were the same size but I'm getting messages that aren't part of your instructions. I'm not sure what to do because your example was with a blank drive. http://i66.tinypic.com/zt6qnq.jpg This looks like you're attempting to restore over top of a running C: partition. Just a guess on my part. You probably need to be booting the Macrium CD, where the Macrium CD version is the same as the version used to back up the image. This is why the program constantly pesters you to make an Emergency CD. However, don't fret, because if you use the Popup Boot Key on your machine, with the two disks installed inside the machine, you can boot the "clone" OS you keep on the backup drive, then do a restore of an image on the "clone" disk, over top of the now-not-running target disk. BOOT Backup-drive-with-its-own-C =====SATA======= | |Motherboard Normal-system-drive-needs-help =====SATA==== | If you have a Macrium CD, it looks like this. Backup-drive-with-its-own-C =====USB2======= | | Normal-system-drive-needs-help =====SATA==== |Motherboard | BOOT Optical-drive-Macrium-CD ===========SATA==== | The first diagram, requires removing the drive from the USB enclosure and placing it inside the PC needing work and using a SATA cable setup. If you have the Macrium CD, notice how much less work is required with your screwdriver set :-) http://i68.tinypic.com/jagsch.jpg What is a Windows PE rescue environment? I inserted a DVD-RW then got this message: http://i64.tinypic.com/mtmd05.jpg I'm not sure a WinPE added to the drive-needing-maintenance is all that much help. While they're inviting you to do that, if the restore replaces the whole drive, won't the WinPE get trashed ? I know it is RAM based, and "taking it out" during restore probably doesn't hurt it, but it strikes me as a bit risky. I've heard the Macrium environment access the CD, after the entire environment is stored in the ramdisk, so I don't know if a WinPE environment would even make an access while the target disk was being re-written. Are you sure you don't have a Macrium CD ? If you change Macrium versions (when enticed by the dialogs to do that), do you make fresh emergency boot media ? For example, if you go from Macrium 6 to Macrium 7, that's a good time to make a new CD. I'm totally lost. Robert I'm sure you'll figure this out. You're a pro at these now. When doing what you're doing, I use diagram #2 above. I have around half a dozen CDs now, with different versions, and the Version 7 disc will restore everything. Paul I'm OK at backups and creating Mrimgs but not restoring (as I said I have never done this before)and none of what I have seen is in your previous instructions you gave me. However,.. something weird has happened,... it seems the pop-ups have disappeared!? I'll monitor this all tonight to make sure,. but it's is odd. Invariably they always pop-up on Yahoo but I've checked repeatedly and none are showing up. Isn't that strange? Of course good news if true. I still would like to understand the restore process in case I ever need it. Yes, I was attempting to restore over my existing partition where in your example you enlarged the partition because it was a blank drive. So I did not know how to proceed? So are you and Macrium telling me I have to boot from my rescue CD? I think I need a new set of instructions for this not previously covered. As you said part of it may be risky, which is why I'm asking the questions. Usually like when making Mrimgs I follow your step by step instructions you gave me awhile back and I have no problems but this is different and isn't matching the instructions and there was no mention of a CD. I do have a rescue media on a cd-rw that I created on 7-27-15 and also Dell Data Safe (4) disks on DVD-R disk from 10-3-16 and a Win7 Pro Master on DVD-RW (no date). Thoughts/suggestions, Thanks, Robert Ok, I did a restart and I noticed something else. Usually My MBR is set for 30 seconds and I noticed it had changed to 10 like the 780. So something did happen during the process. I checked Yahoo again and no pop-up. Lets hope the problem is resolved but I'll be damned if I know how it happened because I did not finish the process but something took. I'll keep monitoring it,.. Later this week will order the DVD-R's to complete our Win 10 project. Thanks, Robert |
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On Monday, June 24, 2019 at 6:02:40 PM UTC-7, Robert in CA wrote:
On Monday, June 24, 2019 at 5:49:06 PM UTC-7, Robert in CA wrote: On Monday, June 24, 2019 at 4:50:28 PM UTC-7, Paul wrote: Robert in CA wrote: On Monday, June 24, 2019 at 12:15:09 PM UTC-7, Paul wrote: Robert in CA wrote: On Monday, June 24, 2019 at 10:39:48 AM UTC-7, Paul wrote: Robert in CA wrote: So, should I restore from a Mrimg because system restore and resetting Firefox didn't work. Thanks, Robert At this point, that seems a practical solution. Because I can't tell from here, exactly what is doing it. There's got to be something else on the machine besides the package tracker extension. Paul I knew I was going to run into questions on this since I have never done it before. When I clicked browse for an image file I got the Mrimgs and the pop-up window (Backup selection)so which do I use? This isn't covered in your instructions. I suspect the Mrimg but what is the back-up pop-up? http://i67.tinypic.com/ka04dy.jpg Thanks, Robert In the blue area on the right Browse Image Restore Image=== you want this one Verify Image Other actions You clicked the Browse Image button and that's where that dialog came from. Just cancel the dialog and use the Restore one, Paul I tried again but didn't resize the partitions as they were the same size but I'm getting messages that aren't part of your instructions. I'm not sure what to do because your example was with a blank drive. http://i66.tinypic.com/zt6qnq.jpg This looks like you're attempting to restore over top of a running C: partition. Just a guess on my part. You probably need to be booting the Macrium CD, where the Macrium CD version is the same as the version used to back up the image. This is why the program constantly pesters you to make an Emergency CD. However, don't fret, because if you use the Popup Boot Key on your machine, with the two disks installed inside the machine, you can boot the "clone" OS you keep on the backup drive, then do a restore of an image on the "clone" disk, over top of the now-not-running target disk. BOOT Backup-drive-with-its-own-C =====SATA======= | |Motherboard Normal-system-drive-needs-help =====SATA==== | If you have a Macrium CD, it looks like this. Backup-drive-with-its-own-C =====USB2======= | | Normal-system-drive-needs-help =====SATA==== |Motherboard | BOOT Optical-drive-Macrium-CD ===========SATA==== | The first diagram, requires removing the drive from the USB enclosure and placing it inside the PC needing work and using a SATA cable setup. If you have the Macrium CD, notice how much less work is required with your screwdriver set :-) http://i68.tinypic.com/jagsch.jpg What is a Windows PE rescue environment? I inserted a DVD-RW then got this message: http://i64.tinypic.com/mtmd05.jpg I'm not sure a WinPE added to the drive-needing-maintenance is all that much help. While they're inviting you to do that, if the restore replaces the whole drive, won't the WinPE get trashed ? I know it is RAM based, and "taking it out" during restore probably doesn't hurt it, but it strikes me as a bit risky. I've heard the Macrium environment access the CD, after the entire environment is stored in the ramdisk, so I don't know if a WinPE environment would even make an access while the target disk was being re-written. Are you sure you don't have a Macrium CD ? If you change Macrium versions (when enticed by the dialogs to do that), do you make fresh emergency boot media ? For example, if you go from Macrium 6 to Macrium 7, that's a good time to make a new CD. I'm totally lost. Robert I'm sure you'll figure this out. You're a pro at these now. When doing what you're doing, I use diagram #2 above. I have around half a dozen CDs now, with different versions, and the Version 7 disc will restore everything. Paul I'm OK at backups and creating Mrimgs but not restoring (as I said I have never done this before)and none of what I have seen is in your previous instructions you gave me. However,.. something weird has happened,... it seems the pop-ups have disappeared!? I'll monitor this all tonight to make sure,. but it's is odd. Invariably they always pop-up on Yahoo but I've checked repeatedly and none are showing up. Isn't that strange? Of course good news if true. I still would like to understand the restore process in case I ever need it. Yes, I was attempting to restore over my existing partition where in your example you enlarged the partition because it was a blank drive. So I did not know how to proceed? So are you and Macrium telling me I have to boot from my rescue CD? I think I need a new set of instructions for this not previously covered. As you said part of it may be risky, which is why I'm asking the questions. Usually like when making Mrimgs I follow your step by step instructions you gave me awhile back and I have no problems but this is different and isn't matching the instructions and there was no mention of a CD. I do have a rescue media on a cd-rw that I created on 7-27-15 and also Dell Data Safe (4) disks on DVD-R disk from 10-3-16 and a Win7 Pro Master on DVD-RW (no date). Thoughts/suggestions, Thanks, Robert Ok, I did a restart and I noticed something else. Usually My MBR is set for 30 seconds and I noticed it had changed to 10 like the 780. So something did happen during the process. I checked Yahoo again and no pop-up. Lets hope the problem is resolved but I'll be damned if I know how it happened because I did not finish the process but something took. I'll keep monitoring it,.. Later this week will order the DVD-R's to complete our Win 10 project. Thanks, Robert Well, everything was fine,.. until I went to Outlook and the pop-up appeared again.... sigh,...... So how do I proceed? Thanks, Robert |
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I tried to get the pop-up to repeat on Outlook but it doesn't show up. I then ran a Adwcleaner scan which came up clean. http://i65.tinypic.com/mj2yrn.jpg However while doing this it popped up on Tinypic. Robert |
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On Monday, June 24, 2019 at 4:50:28 PM UTC-7, Paul wrote:
Robert in CA wrote: On Monday, June 24, 2019 at 12:15:09 PM UTC-7, Paul wrote: Robert in CA wrote: On Monday, June 24, 2019 at 10:39:48 AM UTC-7, Paul wrote: Robert in CA wrote: So, should I restore from a Mrimg because system restore and resetting Firefox didn't work. Thanks, Robert At this point, that seems a practical solution. Because I can't tell from here, exactly what is doing it. There's got to be something else on the machine besides the package tracker extension. Paul I knew I was going to run into questions on this since I have never done it before. When I clicked browse for an image file I got the Mrimgs and the pop-up window (Backup selection)so which do I use? This isn't covered in your instructions. I suspect the Mrimg but what is the back-up pop-up? http://i67.tinypic.com/ka04dy.jpg Thanks, Robert In the blue area on the right Browse Image Restore Image=== you want this one Verify Image Other actions You clicked the Browse Image button and that's where that dialog came from. Just cancel the dialog and use the Restore one, Paul I tried again but didn't resize the partitions as they were the same size but I'm getting messages that aren't part of your instructions. I'm not sure what to do because your example was with a blank drive. http://i66.tinypic.com/zt6qnq.jpg This looks like you're attempting to restore over top of a running C: partition. Just a guess on my part. You probably need to be booting the Macrium CD, where the Macrium CD version is the same as the version used to back up the image. This is why the program constantly pesters you to make an Emergency CD. However, don't fret, because if you use the Popup Boot Key on your machine, with the two disks installed inside the machine, you can boot the "clone" OS you keep on the backup drive, then do a restore of an image on the "clone" disk, over top of the now-not-running target disk. BOOT Backup-drive-with-its-own-C =====SATA======= | |Motherboard Normal-system-drive-needs-help =====SATA==== | If you have a Macrium CD, it looks like this. Backup-drive-with-its-own-C =====USB2======= | | Normal-system-drive-needs-help =====SATA==== |Motherboard | BOOT Optical-drive-Macrium-CD ===========SATA==== | The first diagram, requires removing the drive from the USB enclosure and placing it inside the PC needing work and using a SATA cable setup. If you have the Macrium CD, notice how much less work is required with your screwdriver set :-) http://i68.tinypic.com/jagsch.jpg What is a Windows PE rescue environment? I inserted a DVD-RW then got this message: http://i64.tinypic.com/mtmd05.jpg I'm not sure a WinPE added to the drive-needing-maintenance is all that much help. While they're inviting you to do that, if the restore replaces the whole drive, won't the WinPE get trashed ? I know it is RAM based, and "taking it out" during restore probably doesn't hurt it, but it strikes me as a bit risky. I've heard the Macrium environment access the CD, after the entire environment is stored in the ramdisk, so I don't know if a WinPE environment would even make an access while the target disk was being re-written. Are you sure you don't have a Macrium CD ? If you change Macrium versions (when enticed by the dialogs to do that), do you make fresh emergency boot media ? For example, if you go from Macrium 6 to Macrium 7, that's a good time to make a new CD. I'm totally lost. Robert I'm sure you'll figure this out. You're a pro at these now. When doing what you're doing, I use diagram #2 above. I have around half a dozen CDs now, with different versions, and the Version 7 disc will restore everything. Paul My fault, I forgot to boot from the Macrium Rescue CD So I tried it again.... but this time I could not locate the mrimg files because the drive wasn't highlighted. It had every other drive except the one I needed. I went back to re-check the path. http://i66.tinypic.com/5uee5x.jpg I tried again but the drive I was not accessible. http://i64.tinypic.com/33l0706.jpg http://i67.tinypic.com/2daxf8z.jpg Also when restarting it gave me this message: Windows 7 build 7601 This copy of Windows is not genuine. So why isn't drive I accessible and why did I get the message my Windows7 is not genuine. This is the first time I ever saw such a message and I bought this Dell 8500 new and I have the key codes and everything. Thoughts/Suggestions? Robert |
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Robert in CA writes: [] I'm OK at backups and creating Mrimgs but not restoring (as I said I have never done this before)and none of what I have seen is in your previous instructions you gave me. [] I still would like to understand the restore process in case I ever need it. Yes, I was attempting to restore over my existing partition where in your example you enlarged the partition because it was a blank drive. So I did not know how to proceed? So are you and Macrium telling me I have to boot from my rescue CD? I think I need a new set of instructions for If you are making Macrium images (.mrimg files), then yes, you definitely need to know how to restore from them ***having booted from a Macrium CD***. If your hard drive dies, then - when you've bought its replacement - you won't have a working Windows system to boot from, in order to use the restore file. If you haven't made a Macrium boot CD, make one. Now. It will fit on a CD - doesn't need a DVD. (In fact it'll fit on a mini-CD - at least it will for Macrium 5, and I _think_ it will for Macrium 6 and 7 too. I like it on that as I feel it's less fragile, but you probably haven't got a mini-CD blank to hand.) It needs to be a Macrium CD - Windows recovery discs won't know what to do with a .mrimg file. Assuming you imaged your whole drive or at least partition C: plus any hidden partitions, you don't need to worry about sizes - the restore process will recreate C: and the hidden partitions at the size they were. If the new disc is bigger than the old (which it may well be), you can resize things to take advantage of that later (I think you can also do it _during_ the Macrium restore process). Make your Macrium CD, and make sure you know how to boot your system from it (whether you have to change BIOS settings to alter boot priorities, or just press a key at a certain point); you don't actually have to _do_ the restore. This will prove (a) that you know how to boot from a CD, (b) that you've made the CD properly. (For what it's worth: I gather you've been making your .mrimg files from within Windows. When I make my .mrimg files, I do it having booted from the Macrium CD I made; not only do I feel happier doing it that way, it also reassures me that the CD hasn't "gone bad", as CDs can do. I don't want the time I find the CD has gone bad to be the time I really need it to do a restore!) this not previously covered. As you said part of it may be risky, which is why I'm asking the questions. Usually like when making Mrimgs I follow your step by step instructions you gave me awhile back and I have no problems but this is different and isn't matching the instructions and there was no mention of a CD. When you boot from the Macrium CD, you'll see it load a sort of Windows (note: this takes longer than normal booting from HD), then load the Macrium prog., which has two tabs - make images and restore from images. (I forget which one comes up by default - restore I think.) Using either option is fairly self-explanatory. It's probably best to have the drive you've put the image file on, connected before you boot the system. I do have a rescue media on a cd-rw that I created on 7-27-15 and also Dell Data Safe (4) disks on DVD-R disk from 10-3-16 and a Win7 Pro Master on DVD-RW (no date). [It's probably best to use ISO dates - yyyy-mm-dd - when posting here, or at least 4-digit years and the month in letters; I can guess what your dates are, but your second date would to me mean the tenth of March if I hadn't seen your first date.] I don't know what the 2015 CD will be; I'm guessing that the Dell ones would be to restore the system to factory settings, or maybe to how it was in 2016; and the Win7 one won't know how to use your recent .mrimg file (I presume you made those in 2019) either. Thoughts/suggestions, Thanks, Robert Make - and test it works, you don't have to do an actual restore - the *Macrium* CD, if you haven't already. -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf [What's your guilty pleasure?] Why should you feel guilty about pleasure? - Michel Roux Jr in Radio Times 2-8 February 2013 |
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Robert in CA wrote:
I tried to get the pop-up to repeat on Outlook but it doesn't show up. I then ran a Adwcleaner scan which came up clean. http://i65.tinypic.com/mj2yrn.jpg However while doing this it popped up on Tinypic. Robert Your new symptoms might be explained, if there is more than one disk drive inside the computer and you're booting off your emergency hard drive (which isn't infected or affected). I doubt Avast has been cleaning up behind the scenes or something. And I have to look for another reason why the symptoms would change. The other possibility, is you ran Adwcleaner more than once, then on one of the runs "selected" an item in the table of items and selected the "clean" button after that. Perhaps that's when it got properly removed or something. ******* This is an example of restoring using the Macrium CD. Since you're restoring over top of the target disk drive, you'll be kinda "replacing like with like" in terms of sizes and identifier numbers. The "content" of the restore should be very similar to the disk you're about to restore it to. https://s9.postimg.cc/6mko7k7m5/Macrium_Restore_CD.gif ******* This is the set of three example slide decks on Macrium. https://postimg.cc/image/f664kgrzh/ Macrium6_Backup.gif https://postimg.cc/image/soq5qlgrx/ Clone_Disk.gif https://postimg.cc/image/458x0anpn/ Macrium_Restore_CD.gif ******* If the Avast dialog about expired certificates shows up again, it could be that Tinypic contacts advertising.com when it presents an image or something (it's part of the HTML or JS that gets downloaded). Why an advertising tracking site would have an expired certificate is a bit weird, as sites that earn money for these people, they would normally take better care of the thing than that. It's right that Avast should complain about such things, but this wears thin after a while. The end-user cannot exactly reach in and fix advertising.com . You could put an entry in your HOSTS file I supposed, to redirect the probe to 127.0.0.1, in which case Avast wouldn't see the bad certificate issue, and the issue would go away. I just want to make sure there are no more "scan results" being presented, as they're the priority, running a tight ship with no garbage in the browser. The fact that advertising.com is being accessed, while interesting and all, isn't as important if everything else is running good. Personally, I'd try and trace that down, where that comes from, but yesterday when trying to get Wireshark running, I couldn't even get the replacement for winpcap to run properly, and I couldn't even get a trace going. This isn't the first time I've been stumped when using the stupid Wireshark program. It's the fact they split the package in two pieces, with the promiscuous receiver code in one program (winpcap or npcap) while the display portion of the program is Wireshark itself. It's good when it works, but a curse when it doesn't. I had to try and use TCPView instead, which isn't nearly as effective (too hard to catch advertising.com if it is present). Paul |
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My apologies: ignore my post timed at xx:0:59 [xx may vary with timezone
where you are reading and with what newsreader] telling you to make the Macrium CD if you haven't already; it crossed with your post below. I know you _have_ made the Macrium CD. (Read on.) In message , Robert in CA writes: [] My fault, I forgot to boot from the Macrium Rescue CD So I tried it again.... but this time I could not locate the mrimg files because the drive wasn't highlighted. It had every other drive except the one I needed. I went back to re-check the path. http://i66.tinypic.com/5uee5x.jpg I tried again but the drive I was not accessible. Note that drive letters in a system booted from the Macrium CD will almost certainly not be the same as those in a system running Windows booted from the HD as usual. Identify which drive (partition, really) is which by giving them volume names, and/or looking at the model numbers (I see one of yours is WDC something), and/or looking at the capacities and how full they are. I presume the above is a screenshot of Macrium running under Windows; you appear to be imaging three partitions from MBR Disk 1 (that's physical disc, model number starting ST1000): a tiny (39 MB!, only 1K used) one with no letter, a "RECOVERY" one with no letter (24G, 13½G used), and "Win7 New" alias C:, of 907G, 142G used. You seem to be putting the image on what Windows is calling partition I (which is presumably not on the same physical disk; I can see from the partially-obscured bit behind that you have a Disk 2 which is WDC something. I don't know if that's the one with what Windows is calling partition I on it). http://i64.tinypic.com/33l0706.jpg I can't see that image (-: http://i67.tinypic.com/2daxf8z.jpg That, I presume, is a camera shot of Macrium having booted from the Macrium CD. You can see it's playing with the partition letters - for example, the "RECOVERY" partition (which is one of those you would be restoring from the image), which didn't have a letter when you made the image, it has this time given the letter J, and the CD drive it has given the letter K. I presume there are drive/partition letters G, F, E, and D, at least, off the top of your window. One of those _should_ be what was partition I: when you made the image. [That's another reason I could give for booting from the CD even when _making_ the images: the drive/partition letters are more likely to remain the same (though still not what they are in Windows)!] If you try each in turn, hopefully on one of them, it'll find the .mrimg file you made. Also when restarting it gave me this message: Windows 7 build 7601 This copy of Windows is not genuine. So why isn't drive I accessible and why did I get the message It is, I hope - Macrium is just not _calling_ it drive I, but another letter. You'll know it's the right one, I hope, because you find the relevant .mrimg file on it. (And possibly by its size, label [name], and amount free.) If you still don't find it, it's possible you need drivers, depending where your drive with the image on actually is - is it over your network? I just use an external drive connected via USB, which even Macrium 5 finds without drivers. When the Macrium CD is booting, it does ask me if I need certain drivers, and I say no; I presume Macrium 7 does something similar. my Windows7 is not genuine. This is the first time I ever saw such a message and I bought this Dell 8500 new and I have the key codes and everything. I've never seen that message during a Macrium recovery. Anyway, looks from the photograph as if the Macrium CD is working regardless of that message. Thoughts/Suggestions? Robert If you _do_ find the image file, it'll show you the partitions it contains (presumably the same three you left ticked when you made the image), and ask you which ones you want to restore - which will be all of them. Good luck! -- J. P. Gilliver. |
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