O.T. - Connection Problem:

I'm not understanding fully when you say;

Make sure you have a T: with a My Documents_1 in it
before you begin. And, that it has enough space as
a destination.

I have My Documents_1 on the New Win7 OS but
I don't know if it has enough space. I assume so
since My Documents was around 25 GB approx.

Also, since it has an older version from my copy/paste
wouldn't it be best just to delete it and create a new
one?

I still don't understand the procedure for doing this?
Am I suppose to open a command prompt in the Old OS
and insert the command:

"robocopy O:\users\Rob "T:\My Documents_1\Rob" /e /xj /r:2 /w:2 /tee /v /log:robolog.txt"

or am I suppose to go to the New Win7 OS and open a
command prompt there? or do I have it all wrong?

I assume I mount the external HD before the command?

Robert

Mark Twain wrote:
I'm not understanding fully when you say;

Make sure you have a T: with a My Documents_1 in it
before you begin. And, that it has enough space as
a destination.

I have My Documents_1 on the New Win7 OS but
I don't know if it has enough space. I assume so
since My Documents was around 25 GB approx.

Also, since it has an older version from my copy/paste
wouldn't it be best just to delete it and create a new
one?

I still don't understand the procedure for doing this?
Am I suppose to open a command prompt in the Old OS
and insert the command:

"robocopy O:\users\Rob "T:\My Documents_1\Rob" /e /xj /r:2 /w:2 /tee /v /log:robolog.txt"

or am I suppose to go to the New Win7 OS and open a
command prompt there? or do I have it all wrong?

I assume I mount the external HD before the command?

Robert

This is a simulation of a data recovery operation from
a fresh backup MRIMG to some other primary storage on the computer.

We can copy the files with File Explorer, or use the
Command Prompt. If the File Explorer does it, there
may be a lot of pesky dialog boxes along the way.

The Command Prompt method, seeks to get most
of the human-usable information from the MRIMG,
without pestering you along the way.

To copy the MRIMG, it must be mounted first. Maybe
the source partition is O: . So I then prepared
a command to do the copying, to be used in Command Prompt.

robocopy source_folder destination_folder

That's the basic syntax.

For a destination, we need some space somewhere, which
is large enough to hold your home directory. If you
do Properties on "O:\users\Rob" folder on the Macrium
MRIMG mounted partition, you'd then have some idea
how much blank space you'd need at the destination.

You can make up any destination you want. The

T:\My Documents_1\Rob

was purely an example of a same-named destination,
to prevent Robocopy from doing something strange.
So the source is a "Rob" home directory, and
the destination will also have a name of "Rob".

The regular-user Command Prompt sequence then becomes:

cd /d %userprofile%
cd Downloads --- this just picks a place for the log
mkdir "T:\My Documents_1" --- this makes a destination folder if
one doesn't already exist. If this
folder is empty, it makes it easier
to see the results

robocopy O:\users\Rob T:\foldername\Rob /e /xj /r:2 /w:2 /tee /v /log:robolog.txt

When it is finished, you could even do this in the command
prompt window.

notepad robolog.txt

as that would be the hard-copy log of the entire
transfer of your MRIMG data for examination. If
there was any problem doing the transfer, it should
be logged in that file.

Paul

I think I get it except am I doing this on
the old OS or the New Win7 OS?

Robert

Mark Twain wrote:
I think I get it except am I doing this on
the old OS or the New Win7 OS?

Robert


You made a new Macrium backup.

You wanted to verify that some home directory
files were up to date within that backup.

The copy operation using Robocopy, it doesn't
really matter where you do that. As you're just
copying from the Macrium virtual drive O: to
a temporary place where you can work.

Most of the time, I would assume you're using
WIN7NEW, as it's your new, clean OS.

Paul

Most of the time I still use the Old OS
mainly because the New Win7 OS doesn't
have My Documents.


However, since you brought it up, I'll
do this on the clean Win7OS.

Robert

I gave it a try on the Win7 OS
with the external HD connected:

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Robert

I started to try again
with the 'O' drive opened
but it wouldn't let me open
it.

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I went to the security tab
and changed the settings to
Administrator but it still
gave the same message. I
then dismounted the drive.

Robert

Mark Twain wrote:
I started to try again
with the 'O' drive opened
but it wouldn't let me open
it.

https://postimg.org/image/g6lnwhqj1/]

I went to the security tab
and changed the settings to
Administrator but it still
gave the same message. I
then dismounted the drive.

Robert



When you mount O: , you can try the "restricted folders"
tick box in the Macrium dialog. Maybe it will help, but
I don't know for sure.

As for the "mkdir" command, You need some disk to receive
the copy of the data on O: . That was the intention of the
command example. If you had a USB key as T: that would
have worked, but been slow. You could place the materials
on C: , as C: is a different disk drive than the external,
and wouldn't make the disk chatter too much. I'm trying to
come up with examples that won't damage anything !

At the very least, I don't want you copying the materials
to a place that will confuse you later, as to which is
the current copy, and which is the test copy for verification.
I purposefully avoided making my command example point at
some place on C: as an example, for that reason. I made
up a fictitious drive T: for the example.

A user account with Administrator group permissions
might be able to do it this way.

cd /d %userprofile%
cd Downloads --- this just picks a place for the log
mkdir "C:\MyTestArea" --- this makes a destination folder if
one doesn't already exist. If this
folder is empty, it makes it easier
to see the results

robocopy O:\users\Rob C:\MyTestArea\Rob /e /xj /r:2 /w:2 /tee /v /log:robolog.txt

HTH,
Paul

I thought 'T' was for temporary,..

Let me try to understand,... you want
to move 'My Documents' but to a safe place
other than my C: drive so as not to damage
anything in case it fails etc. Correct?

I do have a CruiserGlide 32GB Key I can use
or maybe I can find a DVD. How about that?

So the 'T' is actually whatever drive the
Key or DVD would be on?

Robert

Mark Twain wrote:
I thought 'T' was for temporary,..

Let me try to understand,... you want
to move 'My Documents' but to a safe place
other than my C: drive so as not to damage
anything in case it fails etc. Correct?

I do have a CruiserGlide 32GB Key I can use
or maybe I can find a DVD. How about that?

So the 'T' is actually whatever drive the
Key or DVD would be on?

Robert

Yes. I just want some place where
you won't damage your current files.
Maybe a location on C: is good enough
if it is not in your home directory.

When you're happy that Macrium works, and
the files copied into some C: folder are
good, you can delete the test files. So
as to not be confused by them, if they get
backed up again.

Paul

So do you want me to try this
with the CruiserGuide first?

If so, then 'T' would be 'E'
correct?

As I said, I have a My Documents_1
folder which you advised me to create
to avoid conflict of interest and I was
going to put it in there.

By 'test files' are you talking about
the test Mrimg I created?

Tried it again;

https://postimg.org/image/8ajbr40qv/

this time I had the SanDisk CruiserGlide
('L')attached with 29 GB free. Also had the
external HD attached.

I assume I open up the virtual drive ('O')
but was denied access again to view 'My
Documents' even though I'm on the Admin Account.

The SanDisk safely removed but not the
external HD, and have to wait till I reboot.

Robert

Mark Twain wrote:
So do you want me to try this
with the CruiserGuide first?

If so, then 'T' would be 'E'
correct?

As I said, I have a My Documents_1
folder which you advised me to create
to avoid conflict of interest and I was
going to put it in there.

By 'test files' are you talking about
the test Mrimg I created?


Yes, you wanted proof, that when files
were copied out of a fresh MRIMG, that
they were the same date as the originals.

You need to stick the files somewhere
to do that. And the command syntax
(destination path) will need to be adjusted
to do that.

I tried dragging and dropping a home directory,
and I got a bunch of dialogs. And dialogs
are boring. So I wanted to try Robocopy
instead - if it wants to fail, it can, but
it doesn't get to pester me while doing so.
The log will warn if anything was skipped
or whatever.

If you just want to admire the files you
see on O: , without transferring them,
that's fine too. But testing the transfer,
is a simulation of what you'll be doing
some day, if you need a random file out
of one of those backups. It would help
to be familiar with how to do that, like
just after your Bookmarks got deleted.

Drag and drop of a single file, isn't a big
deal. But if you want to transfer a whole
home directory, I wanted to try some automation
for that (Robocopy).

At one time, you were interested in the out-of-date
pipe folder, and even transferring that over
would be a start. You should be able to drag
and drop that one.

Paul

I tried this (see above) and it
didn't work and I did change the
syntax from 'T' to 'L' (for the
CruiserGuide) but I can't open
'My Documents' on the 'O' drive.

Also, the cmd commands also didn't
work

So what do I do?

Thoughts/suggestions

Robert

I just wanted to verify the folders/files
under 'My Documents' before the procedure
but I still should of been able to perform
the procedure because the 'O' drive was
mounted.

It was the cmd command that didn't work,

Robert