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Restoring disk image
I have used Macrium Reflect to restore a disk image.
I have always restored from an image on an external drive to my C: drive with no problems at all. When I tried to restore to another drive, Macrium does not show any drives to restore to nor can it find the image that is on a USB external drive. Any ideas as to the problem ? Thanks. |
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Andy wrote:
I have used Macrium Reflect to restore a disk image. I have always restored from an image on an external drive to my C: drive with no problems at all. When I tried to restore to another drive, Macrium does not show any drives to restore to nor can it find the image that is on a USB external drive. Any ideas as to the problem ? Thanks. Macrium can be run three ways: 1) As an application from within Windows. 2) From its Linux rescue CD. 3) From its WinPE rescue CD. When run from Windows, it would have some kind of log of where it stored the .mrimg files. Disk detection will depend on drivers, to some extent. When running in Windows, it should find all the drives. I would also not have predicted a problem finding drives in the other environments. Where you will have problems in (3), is if the .mrimg is stored on a network file share. As the CD doesn't have NIC drivers. ****** You should describe more fully how you're running it. If it's (1), I can't really explain why it isn't working. It should have. You can try browsing until you find the ..mrimg file. I don't know of a way to convince it to find a disk drive. It should at least see the disk drives that Disk Management sees. If you're plugging in a portable USB, *after* starting the application, then exit the application and start it up again, to have it scan the drives. Or, see if there is an option in the menu items, to re-scan for drives. If all the drives are present, before you use the app, that improves the odds of finding the drive. Paul |
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On Tuesday, January 21, 2014 6:48:29 PM UTC-6, Andy wrote:
I have used Macrium Reflect to restore a disk image. I have always restored from an image on an external drive to my C: drive with no problems at all. When I tried to restore to another drive, Macrium does not show any drives to restore to nor can it find the image that is on a USB external drive. Any ideas as to the problem ? Thanks. It is being run from a WinPE rescue disk. I normally run it from a Rescue CD but my desktop does not have one, so it is being run from a flash drive. Andy |
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Restoring disk image
"Andy" wrote in message
... I have used Macrium Reflect to restore a disk image. I have always restored from an image on an external drive to my C: drive with no problems at all. When I tried to restore to another drive, Macrium does not show any drives to restore to nor can it find the image that is on a USB external drive. Any ideas as to the problem ? You might try Acronis Disk Director, which I have generally found to be robust. If the standalone CD is unable to see one of your devices, you can generally run Disk Director from inside Windows. It then intercepts the next Windows boot, and re-uses the Windows device drivers that have loaded in order to do its copy operations before the Windows OS is able to fully boot. By comparison, Acronis True Image (their backup program) has always been horrific for me. It is a bug ridden and poorly supported piece of software. Disk Director is obviously written by a different team of programmers because I have always found it to be very robust. -- W |
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On Tuesday, January 21, 2014 6:48:29 PM UTC-6, Andy wrote:
I have used Macrium Reflect to restore a disk image. I have always restored from an image on an external drive to my C: drive with no problems at all. When I tried to restore to another drive, Macrium does not show any drives to restore to nor can it find the image that is on a USB external drive. Any ideas as to the problem ? Thanks. I got the image restored. It boots to XP, but then shuts down. I think it is because all the hardware is different from the original. Andy |
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Have Fun: Restoring disk image
"Andy" wrote in message ...
On Tuesday, January 21, 2014 6:48:29 PM UTC-6, Andy wrote: I have used Macrium Reflect to restore a disk image. I have always restored from an image on an external drive to my C: drive with no problems at all. When I tried to restore to another drive, Macrium does not show any drives to restore to nor can it find the image that is on a USB external drive. Any ideas as to the problem ? Thanks. I got the image restored. It boots to XP, but then shuts down. I think it is because all the hardware is different from the original. Andy That a one at a time Hardware Drive Reinstall Have Fun |
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Have Fun: Restoring disk image
On Wednesday, January 22, 2014 12:31:46 PM UTC-6, Hot-Text wrote:
"Andy" wrote in message ... On Tuesday, January 21, 2014 6:48:29 PM UTC-6, Andy wrote: I have used Macrium Reflect to restore a disk image. I have always restored from an image on an external drive to my C: drive with no problems at all. When I tried to restore to another drive, Macrium does not show any drives to restore to nor can it find the image that is on a USB external drive. Any ideas as to the problem ? Thanks. I got the image restored. It boots to XP, but then shuts down. I think it is because all the hardware is different from the original. Andy That a one at a time Hardware Drive Reinstall Have Fun You make a whole lot of sense. Not !! Take care. :-) |
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On Tuesday, January 21, 2014 7:20:07 PM UTC-6, Paul wrote:
Andy wrote: I have used Macrium Reflect to restore a disk image. I have always restored from an image on an external drive to my C: drive with no problems at all. When I tried to restore to another drive, Macrium does not show any drives to restore to nor can it find the image that is on a USB external drive. Any ideas as to the problem ? Thanks. Macrium can be run three ways: 1) As an application from within Windows. 2) From its Linux rescue CD. 3) From its WinPE rescue CD. When run from Windows, it would have some kind of log of where it stored the .mrimg files. Disk detection will depend on drivers, to some extent. When running in Windows, it should find all the drives. I would also not have predicted a problem finding drives in the other environments. Where you will have problems in (3), is if the .mrimg is stored on a network file share. As the CD doesn't have NIC drivers. ****** You should describe more fully how you're running it. If it's (1), I can't really explain why it isn't working. It should have. You can try browsing until you find the .mrimg file. I don't know of a way to convince it to find a disk drive. It should at least see the disk drives that Disk Management sees. If you're plugging in a portable USB, *after* starting the application, then exit the application and start it up again, to have it scan the drives. Or, see if there is an option in the menu items, to re-scan for drives. If all the drives are present, before you use the app, that improves the odds of finding the drive. Paul Life is always interesting. :-) I started with trying to restore a disk image (from one computer) to a new drive on a second computer. (Computer 2) It installed, but it would not run. That morphed into a project to put XP onto a second drive on Computer 2. (I knew that I only had 30 days to evaluate it. I simply wanted to see if Linux Slacko and XP could "play nice together on my desktop system." They play together fine on my laptop. Win XP was looking for Win 98, so I started the Win 98 installation. I used a method to install Win 98 and XP using a pen drive since my desktop has no CD/DVD player. (Maybe that is the problem. ?) I have never had problems installing to IDE drives, but this installation was to a SATA drive. Have a great week, Andy :-) |
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Andy wrote:
On Tuesday, January 21, 2014 7:20:07 PM UTC-6, Paul wrote: Andy wrote: I have used Macrium Reflect to restore a disk image. I have always restored from an image on an external drive to my C: drive with no problems at all. When I tried to restore to another drive, Macrium does not show any drives to restore to nor can it find the image that is on a USB external drive. Any ideas as to the problem ? Thanks. Macrium can be run three ways: 1) As an application from within Windows. 2) From its Linux rescue CD. 3) From its WinPE rescue CD. When run from Windows, it would have some kind of log of where it stored the .mrimg files. Disk detection will depend on drivers, to some extent. When running in Windows, it should find all the drives. I would also not have predicted a problem finding drives in the other environments. Where you will have problems in (3), is if the .mrimg is stored on a network file share. As the CD doesn't have NIC drivers. ****** You should describe more fully how you're running it. If it's (1), I can't really explain why it isn't working. It should have. You can try browsing until you find the .mrimg file. I don't know of a way to convince it to find a disk drive. It should at least see the disk drives that Disk Management sees. If you're plugging in a portable USB, *after* starting the application, then exit the application and start it up again, to have it scan the drives. Or, see if there is an option in the menu items, to re-scan for drives. If all the drives are present, before you use the app, that improves the odds of finding the drive. Paul Life is always interesting. :-) I started with trying to restore a disk image (from one computer) to a new drive on a second computer. (Computer 2) It installed, but it would not run. That morphed into a project to put XP onto a second drive on Computer 2. (I knew that I only had 30 days to evaluate it. I simply wanted to see if Linux Slacko and XP could "play nice together on my desktop system." They play together fine on my laptop. Win XP was looking for Win 98, so I started the Win 98 installation. I used a method to install Win 98 and XP using a pen drive since my desktop has no CD/DVD player. (Maybe that is the problem. ?) I have never had problems installing to IDE drives, but this installation was to a SATA drive. Have a great week, Andy :-) When an upgrade disc looks for the previous OS, can't you just show it the CD of the previous OS ? For WinXP, you'd want to take the BIOS SATA setting off AHCI, if that is what it is currently. Use the vanilla IDE emulation mode on the SATA. Also, you'd want to examine the WinXP CD to see what Service Pack it includes. As the driver situation, and the disk capacity issues, change with service pack. Paul |
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