Macrium Reflect

Discussion in 'backup, imaging & disk mgmt' started by Stigg, Nov 23, 2013.

  1. Brian K

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    I'm guessing but it might have been a partition overlap issue. If you have some spare time I'd remove your current good drive, install the SSD that caused trouble, use Diskpart from the Macrium boot disk and restore the image. If it doesn't work you can re-install your working drive.
     
  2. beethoven

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    Brian, I may do this some other time as I won't have time to day and need the pc to work tomorrow. I will certainly keep a note of your diskpart instructions. What would cause a partition overlap? I had still planned to upgrade my main pc in the next two weeks always thinking it would be easy to just use an image to go back, but now I am less confident to do so. That PC is highly customised and I am thinking that some of the programs I rely on won't work on Win 10 yet and I might have to go back anyway.
     
  3. Brian K

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    I think it is more common than we realize and in most cases causes no problem. We used to see it in the Ghost forum and it caused Ghost to not see the OS partition. I assume the cause is a problem with partition creation/formatting as the file system and partition don't end on the same LBA. There is a tool in BIBM where you can create or fix a partition overlap.

    All of my programs work. I guess you will just have to try them and see what happens.
     
  4. oliverjia

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    just read this post below somewhere else. does anyone here can reproduce this problem?


    "1 hour ago, medp7060 said:
    Macrium caused data losses (reproducible)!!!



    System: Windows 10 English 64bit with partitions C:, D: and E:



    The scenario:

    1. Installed a fresh copy of Windows 10 onto Drive C:, and made a backup of system Drive C only, e.g. as backup01 with "Macrium Reflect Technician's USB v6.1.1366 (WinPE 10.0 x64)" posted above.

    2. Installed a few programmes, and made another backup of teh system Drive C only as backup02.

    3. Restored drive C: from the backup01 from step 1 and copy a few files onto both drive D: and E:. For some reason, Windows's access to drive E: was denied. However, this issue was successfully resolved by change the security settings.

    4. Restored drive C: from the backup02 from step 2. All the files copied to drives D: and E: in step 3 were gone!!!!



    It looked like that Macrium v6.1.1366 also backed up the master file table (MFT) of other partitions (e.g. Drive D: and E:). When the MFT tables were restored, any changes made after the backup will be ignored and this caused the loss of data!!! Thjis also caused a "chkdks" prompt when starting Windows after the rerstoration."
     
  5. Brian K

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    Can you ask him to disable Fast Startup and repeat the tests.
     
  6. oliverjia

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    Hi Brian,

    This is his response: "The results were the same after disabled Fast Startup!"
     
  7. Brian K

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    oliverjia, thanks for the info.
     
  8. beethoven

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    Looks interesting, I look forward to any reports on this one.
     
  10. Peter2150

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    Just remember viboot won't work for win 7
     
  11. ratchet

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    This morning I wanted to show my children a recent photo I had on the desktop that I had deleted (Also removed from Recycle Bin). In my haste I restored an image that I knew contained it without taking an incremental of my current setup, thus having to download and install the latest Windows v10 updates again. A minor inconvenience, nonetheless, it would be nice if there was a means to go back to the "current" state. I assume there is not. I guess I could have drilled down to just the desktop but have never use MR to just restore a file. It would be useful if MR would throw a "Would you like to image your current state?" prompt for dummies like me before restores too! Thank you!
     
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  12. J_L

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    You could've just mounted the image and restored the file from there...
     
  13. Robin A.

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    Do you mean it doesn´t work with Windows 7 images?
     
  14. Peter2150

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    Doesn't work with win 7 at all Yes, that's what I meant
     
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    Hyper-V works fine under Win10... any image should be updatable (is that a word?). It's running Hyper-V on Win7 that's an issue, not the image update.
     
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  17. Robin A.

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    Yes, I agree.
     
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    I ran into a scarey situation this morning that eventually worked itself out, but it got me thinking about a couple questions. After a Windows 10 update, my computer would not boot. On top of that, it wasn't reading my external hard drive. I finally had to unplug it and leave it unplugged for a couple minutes, before it would boot up again and finish the update process.

    Since my upgrade to Windows 10, my MR incremental image backups are not running automatically. The log file states that it cannot find the destination directory. I'm having to unplug and re-plug in my external HD for Windows to list the G: drive.

    1. Can MR backup to the cloud? (Could you do an image backup to OneDrive, or GoogleDrive, or DropBox?) I realize that this would be very slow and you obviously couldn't restore directly from a cloud account.
    2. I store all my image backups on a 1 TB external HD. But, I got to wondering today, what happens if my external HD dies? So, does anyone copy their image backups to the cloud as a means of a secondary backup of their image files?

    I just checked and I have 1.14 TB of space on my OneDrive account. I think I'm going to backup my image backups off my external HD to my OneDrive account; just in case.
     
  19. Peter2150

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    If all you have are external drives, then you need two of them. I image to two internal drives besides my c: drive. I also have two external drives to each of my systems.
     
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    Q: what's difference between Open an image in Windows Explorer and Browse image.
     
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    "Open an Image" offers you any image in your chain to open where "Browse Image" only ofers you the one you selected BROWSE in... both mount the selected image as a volume under Windows Explorer.
     
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    Okay, seemed like they're similar. Thought, I was missing something related to Windows Explorer vs File Explorer. Thanks
     
  23. J_L

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    Maybe noob question, but: How do I setup the disk imaging to be exactly X days old, instead of creating a new baseline (and then deleting the oldest chain) at X day of every X month(s)?
     
  24. Alexhousek

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    Peter, I wish I would have considered this a couple months ago. I just spent the last 6-8 hours trying to recover a very broken Windows 10 update. I thought I was fully covered with MR and AX64. But, those backups were all on an external HD that now appears to be a paperweight. I have most everything on that external HD and now I'm going to have to take it somewhere and see if someone else can pull the data off of it.

    I never considered needing to backup my images (let alone my entire external HD) to a secondary backup....

    P.S. Through a very long story and process, I appear to be back up and running, but with no functional external HD.....
     
  25. Stode

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    If he's using a pirated version as it sounds like, from the filename in question (makes me suspicious), Macrium has some protection on it... ;)
    I can not re-produce that problem with genuine Macrium Home x64 version..
    If he has bought a genuine Technician edition (which is quite expensive), I think
    he would be familiar more than average about stuff..
    Normal user does not need a techinician edition..
     
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