Using EaseUS Todo to create an image

I thought I'd install EaseUS Todo today to see if I could create an
image on a M: HD. I found out that it wouldn't put the image on my
C-Drive. Anyone know what's going on?

"W. eWatson" wrote in message
...
I thought I'd install EaseUS Todo today to see if I could create an image
on a M: HD. I found out that it wouldn't put the image on my C-Drive.
Anyone know what's going on?

Are you saying that you can't create an image of C: and put that image on
C:? That is logical since C: - and the image - is overwritten if you
restore it.

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W. eWatson wrote on 4/9/2015 1:09 PM:
I thought I'd install EaseUS Todo today to see if I could create an image on a M: HD. I found out that it wouldn't put
the image on my C-Drive. Anyone know what's going on?

The only program I've seen that will create and image and put that image on the drive you imaging is Acronis True Image.
The others I've tested all seem to bulk at the idea of putting an image on an imaged drive. It must be on another
partition or drive.

Big_Al wrote:
W. eWatson wrote on 4/9/2015 1:09 PM:
I thought I'd install EaseUS Todo today to see if I could create an
image on a M: HD. I found out that it wouldn't put
the image on my C-Drive. Anyone know what's going on?

The only program I've seen that will create and image and put that image
on the drive you imaging is Acronis True Image. The others I've tested
all seem to bulk at the idea of putting an image on an imaged drive. It
must be on another partition or drive.

I wonder what Acronis would do when it came to restoring from that image.

Ed

On Thu, 09 Apr 2015 13:41:56 -0400, Big_Al wrote:

W. eWatson wrote on 4/9/2015 1:09 PM:
I thought I'd install EaseUS Todo today to see if I could create an
image on a M: HD. I found out that it wouldn't put the image on my
C-Drive. Anyone know what's going on?

The only program I've seen that will create and image and put that image
on the drive you imaging is Acronis True Image.
The others I've tested all seem to bulk at the idea of putting an
image on an imaged drive. It must be on another
partition or drive.

I never cease to be surprised at how many people insist in replying to a
post without reading the post.

He is trying to save an image of the m drive to his c drive using an
imaging program with which I am not familiar.
I did attempt to save my d drive to c drive using macrium free and all
seemed to go well until I cancelled. It probably wouldn't have completed
due to space considerations.

On Thu, 09 Apr 2015 10:09:58 -0700, W. eWatson wrote:

I thought I'd install EaseUS Todo today to see if I could create an
image on a M: HD. I found out that it wouldn't put the image on my
C-Drive. Anyone know what's going on?

What fun: as you are creating an image of C: on C: you are enlarging the
partition that you are imaging. How do you spell "infinite loop"?

However, your question is quite confusing. You say you are imaging on M:
and you say you are imaging on C:.

Which one is it?

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Stormin' Norman wrote on 4/9/2015 2:38 PM:
On Thu, 9 Apr 2015 18:16:29 +0000 (UTC), Dave wrote:

On Thu, 09 Apr 2015 13:41:56 -0400, Big_Al wrote:

W. eWatson wrote on 4/9/2015 1:09 PM:
I thought I'd install EaseUS Todo today to see if I could create an
image on a M: HD. I found out that it wouldn't put the image on my
C-Drive. Anyone know what's going on?

The only program I've seen that will create and image and put that image
on the drive you imaging is Acronis True Image.
The others I've tested all seem to bulk at the idea of putting an
image on an imaged drive. It must be on another
partition or drive.

I never cease to be surprised at how many people insist in replying to a
post without reading the post.

He is trying to save an image of the m drive to his c drive using an
imaging program with which I am not familiar.
I did attempt to save my d drive to c drive using macrium free and all
seemed to go well until I cancelled. It probably wouldn't have completed
due to space considerations.

When you actually read what the OP wrote, one would have to re-write the post to
arrive at your conclusion. The original question was ambiguous.

I agree. The OP says "create an image on M:" then follows up with "wouldn't put the image on my C-drive". So we are
guessing aren't we! :-)

"Dave" wrote in message
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On Thu, 09 Apr 2015 13:41:56 -0400, Big_Al wrote:

W. eWatson wrote on 4/9/2015 1:09 PM:
I thought I'd install EaseUS Todo today to see if I could create an
image on a M: HD. I found out that it wouldn't put the image on my
C-Drive. Anyone know what's going on?

The only program I've seen that will create and image and put that image
on the drive you imaging is Acronis True Image.
The others I've tested all seem to bulk at the idea of putting an
image on an imaged drive. It must be on another
partition or drive.

I never cease to be surprised at how many people insist in replying to a
post without reading the post.

It would help if people could write in an expository manner.

He is trying to save an image of the m drive to his c drive using an
imaging program with which I am not familiar.

He didn't say OF the M drive, he said ON the M drive. He then wanders off
to the C: drive.

I did attempt to save my d drive to c drive using macrium free and all
seemed to go well until I cancelled. It probably wouldn't have completed
due to space considerations.

If there is space, there is no reason one can't write an image of one drive
to another.

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On 4/9/2015 10:31 AM, dadiOH wrote:
"W. eWatson" wrote in message
...
I thought I'd install EaseUS Todo today to see if I could create an image
on a M: HD. I found out that it wouldn't put the image on my C-Drive.
Anyone know what's going on?

Are you saying that you can't create an image of C: and put that image on
C:? That is logical since C: - and the image - is overwritten if you
restore it.

What I'm trying to do is to protect my data files, which include
documents, spreadsheets, photos, songs, video, e-mail, installed
programs, and Windows7 itself. That's what I call an image.

My C: drive uses 686GB, and has 432GV of free space, a total of one TB.
I would like to create an image of the C: drive and place it on an M:
external drive. If there is an OS fail, I can then restore the C: drive,
presumably with EaseUS Todo.

See dadi HO for more insight. More below.

On 4/9/2015 10:35 AM, Stormin' Norman wrote:
On Thu, 09 Apr 2015 10:09:58 -0700, "W. eWatson" wrote:

I thought I'd install EaseUS Todo today to see if I could create an
image on a M: HD. I found out that it wouldn't put the image on my
C-Drive. Anyone know what's going on?

I use Easeus Todo extensively.

Make sure you are not attempting to "clone" one disk to another. You want to
create an "image" of a disk or partition and store it on a different disk or
partition.

For example, make an image of the C: partition and store that image on the M:
partition. Under this scenario, the partitions can be on the same or different
disks.
From what I see in the EaseUS Todo System Backup dialog, it shows a

Windows 7 SV Pack 1
C:\*:\
686.696GB.

Destination is C:\My Backups

Presumably the C-drive is a single partition. I'm not quite partition
savvy.)

Is that the the image? It seems that it would clobber C:\*:\.

How do I make a partition on M:?


You are not going to be able to make an image of all partitions on a disk and at
the same time store it to one of the partitions you are attempting to image.
Likewise, if you are attempting to make an image of C: you cannot write that
image to the C: drive while you are creating the image.

W. eWatson wrote:

On 4/9/2015 10:31 AM, dadiOH wrote:
"W. eWatson" wrote in message
...
I thought I'd install EaseUS Todo today to see if I could create an image
on a M: HD. I found out that it wouldn't put the image on my C-Drive.
Anyone know what's going on?

Are you saying that you can't create an image of C: and put that image on
C:? That is logical since C: - and the image - is overwritten if you
restore it.

What I'm trying to do is to protect my data files, which include
documents, spreadsheets, photos, songs, video, e-mail, installed
programs, and Windows7 itself. That's what I call an image.

My C: drive uses 686GB, and has 432GV of free space, a total of one TB.
I would like to create an image of the C: drive and place it on an M:
external drive. If there is an OS fail, I can then restore the C: drive,
presumably with EaseUS Todo.

"it wouldn't put the image on my C-Drive"
Now you're saying you want an image of the C: drive (on the M: drive).
So what's the problem?

You cannot put save a backup image of C: onto the C: drive. That's the
OS drive. Because C: would be what the image would restore, it can't be
on that same drive. The backup image cannot be in the same partition as
the one you would use later for a restore. Can your eyes see
themselves? No, you need to see an image elsewhere.

If you meant to say "it wouldn't put the C: drive backup image file on
the M: drive then that's a different problem, like maybe the M: drive
isn't plugged in at the time you run the backup, maybe that external
drive is not powered up when you run the backup, or that USB-attached
drive got assigned a driver letter other than M:.

What is the drive getting backed up? C: or M:?
What is the driver where the backup image is saved? C: or M:

Source drive (to get backed up)?
Destination drive (where to save backup image file)?

"W. eWatson" wrote in message
...
On 4/9/2015 10:31 AM, dadiOH wrote:
"W. eWatson" wrote in message
...
I thought I'd install EaseUS Todo today to see if I could create an
image
on a M: HD. I found out that it wouldn't put the image on my C-Drive.
Anyone know what's going on?

Are you saying that you can't create an image of C: and put that image on
C:? That is logical since C: - and the image - is overwritten if you
restore it.

What I'm trying to do is to protect my data files, which include
documents, spreadsheets, photos, songs, video, e-mail, installed programs,
and Windows7 itself. That's what I call an image.

My C: drive uses 686GB, and has 432GV of free space, a total of one TB. I
would like to create an image of the C: drive and place it on an M:
external drive. If there is an OS fail, I can then restore the C: drive,
presumably with EaseUS Todo.

There is no reason you can't do that assuming there is space on M:. At the
max, the image would need 686GB, much less if compressed and depending upon
the extent of compression to choose.

I assime C: is your boot drive in which case you need to have EaseUS make a
bootable "rescue" disk...if C: gets hosed, use that to boot and browse to
the image you want restored.

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dadiOH
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Dave wrote:

On Thu, 09 Apr 2015 13:41:56 -0400, Big_Al wrote:

W. eWatson wrote on 4/9/2015 1:09 PM:
I thought I'd install EaseUS Todo today to see if I could create an
image on a M: HD. I found out that it wouldn't put the image on my
C-Drive. Anyone know what's going on?

The only program I've seen that will create and image and put that image
on the drive you imaging is Acronis True Image.
The others I've tested all seem to bulk at the idea of putting an
image on an imaged drive. It must be on another
partition or drive.

I never cease to be surprised at how many people insist in replying to a
post without reading the post.

He is trying to save an image of the m drive to his c drive using an
imaging program with which I am not familiar.
I did attempt to save my d drive to c drive using macrium free and all
seemed to go well until I cancelled. It probably wouldn't have completed
due to space considerations.

Then read her reply to dadiOH and you'll realize she doesn't know which
way she is imaging. First it's M: image saved to C:. Then its C: image
saved to M:. Maybe she's doing both: C: (OS) to M: as a file and *some*
files (obviously not the C: images) from M: to C:.

On Thu, 09 Apr 2015 14:34:39 -0700, W. eWatson wrote:

See dadi HO for more insight. More below.

On 4/9/2015 10:35 AM, Stormin' Norman wrote:
On Thu, 09 Apr 2015 10:09:58 -0700, "W. eWatson" wrote:

I thought I'd install EaseUS Todo today to see if I could create an
image on a M: HD. I found out that it wouldn't put the image on my
C-Drive. Anyone know what's going on?

I use Easeus Todo extensively.

Make sure you are not attempting to "clone" one disk to another. You want to
create an "image" of a disk or partition and store it on a different disk or
partition.

For example, make an image of the C: partition and store that image on the M:
partition. Under this scenario, the partitions can be on the same or different
disks.
From what I see in the EaseUS Todo System Backup dialog, it shows a

Windows 7 SV Pack 1
C:\*:\
686.696GB.

Destination is C:\My Backups

Presumably the C-drive is a single partition. I'm not quite partition
savvy.)

Is that the the image? It seems that it would clobber C:\*:\.

How do I make a partition on M:?

The notation "C:\*:\" makes no sense at all. What are you miscopying?

And no, the destination should not be C: anything. For what you wrote, I
can't guess what you are doing.

Go to Disk Management to make a partition on M if it doesn't have one
already.

You are not going to be able to make an image of all partitions on a disk and at
the same time store it to one of the partitions you are attempting to image.
Likewise, if you are attempting to make an image of C: you cannot write that
image to the C: drive while you are creating the image.



--
Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)

On Thu, 09 Apr 2015 15:29:12 -0400, Big_Al wrote:

Stormin' Norman wrote on 4/9/2015 2:38 PM:
On Thu, 9 Apr 2015 18:16:29 +0000 (UTC), Dave wrote:

On Thu, 09 Apr 2015 13:41:56 -0400, Big_Al wrote:

W. eWatson wrote on 4/9/2015 1:09 PM:
I thought I'd install EaseUS Todo today to see if I could create an
image on a M: HD. I found out that it wouldn't put the image on my
C-Drive. Anyone know what's going on?

The only program I've seen that will create and image and put that image
on the drive you imaging is Acronis True Image.
The others I've tested all seem to bulk at the idea of putting an
image on an imaged drive. It must be on another
partition or drive.

I never cease to be surprised at how many people insist in replying to a
post without reading the post.

He is trying to save an image of the m drive to his c drive using an
imaging program with which I am not familiar.
I did attempt to save my d drive to c drive using macrium free and all
seemed to go well until I cancelled. It probably wouldn't have completed
due to space considerations.

When you actually read what the OP wrote, one would have to re-write the post to
arrive at your conclusion. The original question was ambiguous.

I agree. The OP says "create an image on M:" then follows up with "wouldn't put the image on my C-drive". So we are
guessing aren't we! :-)

In a later post he talks about the destination being C:\My Backups and
also a folder C:\*:\

He needs assistance...

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Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)