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O.T. Macrium Updates
J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
In message , Mark Twain writes: The Dell 780 was bought used through Staples https://www.staples.com/DELL-780-Tow...4GB-Ram-750GB- DVDRW-Drive-with-Win-7-Pro-64bit-Refurbished/product_1498887?akamai-feo= off I meant a Macrium and yes I did make one previously for the 750GB HD but thought I would need a new one for the 2TB HD. Robert If _all_ you've done is fit a bigger drive (using Macrium to do the cloning or imaging), then I don't think you'll need a new one (assuming you do have one0. If you have also upgraded Macrium to a later version, then yes: Paul says a Macrium 7 CD ought to be able to use images created with 5 or 6 as well as 7, but _forwards_ compatibility is rarely guaranteed, i. e. if you've updated Macrium and then make a new image with it (as you should be doing anyway from time to time of course), then your old Macrium CD might not be able to use them. He has upgraded both machines to Macrium 7. An emergency restore at the moment, from the latest backup he made, will need a Macrium 7 CD. Paul |
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Mark Twain wrote:
Are you saying that the 780 doesn't recognize the HD? I also had noticed this error on more than one file from the 750GB backups,.. so could it of been a problem with the 750HD? Is this also why it showed nothing on the info/health tabs on the HDTune scan? Robert No, SMART failure is a different problem. You currently only have the 2TB drive within view of HDTune, so the SMART should be working. If you're not using the "1-7-18 Win7 Pro Mrimg backup.xml" file, you could always choose to delete it. I don't really know how many of your XML files have errors, but presumably the file you use to run backups right now is fresh and correct. ******* The Windows "diskpart" command can give the DiskID from the MBR. It was in my picture. (admin command prompt) diskpart list disk select disk 1 detail disk exit That should report the DiskID for disk 1. You can "select disk 2" if there is a second disk, then do "detail disk" to get the details of the second disk drive. I got a lesson about DiskID only in the last couple weeks, when I overwrote one while "fixing" a boot problem. And the boot was still broken - and then I knew I was ignorant about the MBR layout and had to go research it. When I fix the boot code on an MBR now, I limit the command to 440 bytes instead of 446. The details I needed, were in Wikipedia for MBR. Paul |
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Mark Twain wrote:
I use CDRW's but when creating the Kapersky CD I had to use a brand new one even though I had erased the information on the CDRW I wanted to use. So in that application it didn't work. So should I create another Rescue CD for the 780? Robert Yes. To match your choice of Macrium 7 on the 780. (I write on the jewel box holding my media, what version is on there, so I don't have to label the media itself.) Paul |
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I created a new 780 RescueCD
http://i63.tinypic.com/9un6eu.jpg Then I unplugged the Internet connection and waited for 1 hour and ran a HDTune scan. http://i68.tinypic.com/x59lwo.jpg http://i65.tinypic.com/2qlygxd.jpg http://i66.tinypic.com/20tjcpe.jpg Robert |
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I also created a Rescue CD for the 8500:
http://i64.tinypic.com/dwymbr.jpg As far as deleting files, I'm very leery of doing that and you know my history with Murphy's law. Also, won't the newer backups overwrite the older ones eventually? As I said I detected this in others as well but since I installed the new HD and a fresh new copy of Macrium I don't see any errors. Robert |
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Mark Twain wrote:
I created a new 780 RescueCD http://i63.tinypic.com/9un6eu.jpg Then I unplugged the Internet connection and waited for 1 hour and ran a HDTune scan. http://i68.tinypic.com/x59lwo.jpg http://i65.tinypic.com/2qlygxd.jpg http://i66.tinypic.com/20tjcpe.jpg Robert It occurs to me, that you don't use an elevated account some of the time. HDTune might benefit from being run as administrator. Your Info tab looks a bit strange, in that it looks like maybe all the boxes are ticked. And they shouldn't be. Usually there's a couple that aren't ticked. Maybe it's due to lack of Administrator or something. Just a guess. ******* As for your benchmark curve, something on your machine might still be using disk while that benchmark is running. It could be something related to the AV program. ******* Your Rescue disc is made with "WinPE 3.1". As long as the CD works to make backups, it should also work to make restores. You could boot the CD and test that it can be used to back up the internal drive, to the external drive. That should set your mind at ease, that the CD is good. And yes, eventually the space management should cause the older backups to be removed, and new ones take their place. You set that in the space management policy when setting up the XML file. Paul |
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Mark Twain wrote:
I also created a Rescue CD for the 8500: http://i64.tinypic.com/dwymbr.jpg As far as deleting files, I'm very leery of doing that and you know my history with Murphy's law. Also, won't the newer backups overwrite the older ones eventually? As I said I detected this in others as well but since I installed the new HD and a fresh new copy of Macrium I don't see any errors. Robert The XML files are readable with Notepad. You don't have to worry about those files, if you're not reusing them. Paul |
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I rarely use the Admin Account unless
you direct me to go there for a purpose. So I did another HDTune scan after unplugging the ethernet connection and waited an hour but this time on the Admin Account. http://i66.tinypic.com/16bn2mq.jpg http://i66.tinypic.com/24eo10m.jpg This looked really bad so I did another: http://i68.tinypic.com/r02ide.jpg http://i66.tinypic.com/nmkbhe.jpg Robert |
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I don't understand why all the boxes are
selected on the info tab? I also checked the Rescue CD by booting and it works fine. Thanks, Robert |
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Mark Twain wrote:
I rarely use the Admin Account unless you direct me to go there for a purpose. So I did another HDTune scan after unplugging the ethernet connection and waited an hour but this time on the Admin Account. http://i66.tinypic.com/16bn2mq.jpg http://i66.tinypic.com/24eo10m.jpg This looked really bad so I did another: http://i68.tinypic.com/r02ide.jpg http://i66.tinypic.com/nmkbhe.jpg Robert This is my Windows 7 drive, as scanned by the Windows 7 being the boot drive. This is similar to how you're doing it. I have the spikes, and it doesn't look very nice. Also, the SMART is blank! (That's not shown in the picture.) https://i.postimg.cc/jStWj2w7/win7dr...in7-HDTune.gif If I use two drives, I can boot from a Win10 drive (which the OS likes to play with), while the Win7 drive remains idle (because now it's just a data drive off to the side). The scan is cleaner... but not perfect. https://i.postimg.cc/tgfCF4TD/win7dr...n10-HDTune.gif Now, the next series is more fun. It turns out, you can run HDTune while the Macrium Emergency boot CD is booted and functioning as the OS. I couldn't find the snippingtool, so had to take camera pictures. https://i.postimg.cc/zX9j2nQ1/Macriu...Disk-SMART.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/SxwGD7w0/Macriu...Disk-Bench.jpg In the last picture there are no spikes. To do that, I needed to make a 32 bit macrium Emergency boot CD, rather than use the normal 64-bit ones I made. That's because HDTune is 32 bit software, and the Macrium runtime environment expects the things you execute, to have the same bitness as the Emergency CD (32 bit). It took me quite a while to get set up to make that CD (several hours of farting around). That's just to demonstrate, there is a way to do a clean scan. The above shown in order of cleanliness. When you scan an SSD, you expect to see a flat line. When using Macrium as the OS, you can see how flat the line is, and how little wavy stuff is in there. https://i.postimg.cc/fLmtL9KY/Macriu...can-of-SSD.jpg In Macrium, the Command Prompt is the black icon at the bottom left. Clicking it, opens a COmmand Prompt. You have to CD to the directory with the files you want to execute (hdtune.exe). cd /d c:\program files (x86)\HD Tune hdtune.exe That's how those were done, running a copy of HDTune off the C: drive, while booted from X:\ Macrium CD. HTH, Paul |
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There are so many variables to get to a clean
HDTune it makes me wonder how useful/accurate is it? I also noticed when loading the Rescue CD that there's no way to take a screenshot. It seems the new Macrium7, cloning, backups and Rescue CD all work OK. I want to thank you for all your great help and explaining things. I appreciate all the time you take to do that. Robert |
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In message , Mark
Twain writes: There are so many variables to get to a clean HDTune it makes me wonder how useful/accurate is it? Accurate, not sure. Useful, I'd say it is: if multiple runs have spikes _in the same place_, then you almost definitely have a dodgy patch. And with the bad-sector-swapping firmware now being built into the drives, it (or something similar) is about the only thing that will actually show you that. [Assuming you actually _get_ the normal curve. I gave up with my (1TB) drive.] I also noticed when loading the Rescue CD that there's no way to take a screenshot. It seems the new Macrium7, cloning, backups and Rescue CD all work OK. I want to thank you for all your great help and explaining things. I appreciate all the time you take to do that. Robert John 255soft.uk -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf Radio 4 is one of the reasons being British is good. It's not a subset of Britain - it's almost as if Britain is a subset of Radio 4. - Stephen Fry, in Radio Times, 7-13 June, 2003. |
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