this is what I am getting after trying on back up pop up window 'windows PE components download' creating rescue media will require 374.1MB download from Microsoft...click download to proceed browse to locate already download zip file or cancel'.....what now?
Ok did all the download PE 3.1...what do I clone or back up? in the gui of Macrium I have that all went on the USB stick 1-system(none) ntfs active 28.8 MBs 199.0 MBs 2-(C) NTFS Primary 42.26GB 465.56GB Below that is Clone This Disk.....or Image this disk and both have a check in both boxes
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well now turn on laptop...opened up macrium and I am at the point where the cd rom drive popped open and I am burning ISO Image...20 percent??
Hi Gordon You are on the right track. Keep on keeping on and once you get it you are going to say wow. Pete
Tried Restore with Macrium Home Trial Did Full backup & 3 Incremental backup. Restored to 3rd incremental backup with Pre-OS console. Everything seems fine BUT chkdsk found errors "The Volume Bitmap is incorrect". UPDATE - Uninstalled Macrium. And fixed the errors with chkdsk /f By the way, is it safe to fix chkdsk errors with Macrium installed or Macrium have some tools to run & fix errors?
They are totally independent of each other. Reinstall and continue to test... This may have been a one time thing with your FileSystem.
I would try to boot from it, to see if it works. I would also check if system images are accessible when recovery environment is loaded.
It sounds like you successfully created a Recovery Media to use with Reflect and BOOTed into it... that's a great first step. Now you need to use the installed Reflect application to create an image of your System. To do this you'll need a separate volume on your System that's not part of any Volume/Disk that you will be imaging. Most users use a separate internal disk or an external disk/storage of some king. When you've identified the availability of that, you're ready to image your System. ...and by the way, under Reflect's "Help" menu, there's a great link to the Reflect User's Manual which covers, in detail and in tutorials, how to do just about everything with the application... you you try and use it!
So i can image my system and store it on the laptop? http://knowledgebase.macrium.com/di...p image of your computer, drive or partitions I just need to know do i do the FAT2 or the NTFS?
If by laptop you mean just your c: drive, NO. You want to store and some other media, either another internal drive or external drives.
ah ok.. makes sense I am looking at network share.?? the image would be to large for a usb stick correct/
That really depends upon the size of the disk/HD you are trying to back up and how many images (full, incremental, or differential) you want to save. In general, I wouldn't use a usb stick for ongoing image backups. I use a 1 TB external HD for my image backups. I don't know the largest size USB sticks these days, but I would imagine that you couldn't afford (let alone probably buy) a 1 TB usb stick! The largest USB stick I own is 64 GB. I know that there are larger ones; I just wouldn't put my images on a usb stick/flash drive. EDIT: I did a quick search on Amazon for usb sticks/flashdrives. You can get really, really cheap 512 GB or even 1 TB sticks (I see one for $9.95, but it has terrible ratings), but for the most part, you can easily buy double the capacity in an external HD vs. a usb stick/flash drive.
You may or may not need a TB drive. My C: drive has about 70GB used, a Full backup image is about half that = 34GB. I keep 3 Full backups that use 3 x 34 = 102GB I also keep a Full + 14 day Incremental (done daily) which grows a bit so say 45GB. Total 102 + 45 is 147 GB Add 50% for free space so the disc has lots of room to breathe = say 225GB. It all depends on the used space on your C: drive and the number of Full and Incremental and Differential backups that you feel are right for you. In my opinion the minimum would be 1 Full taken on the first day of a month plus a Full + 5 Incrementals done daily. However if your C: drive has 800 GB used then you'd need the TB drive.
TRF, Does Macrium excludes anything for backup? I am trying Todo Backup And it doesn't excludes anything by default. I am thinking to go with default or exclude stuffs? What you suggest? If you suggest to exclude, what all I should exclude? I am going to only take "System" Backup i.e C Partition & System Reserved And keep on D Partition & External HDD And Incremental on D Partition only.
When IMAGING (not FILES & FOLDERS backup), by DEFAULT, nothing is excluded. What it does do is image, basically, a ZERO length PageFile and SwapFile. Although these files are large in nature, they hold no value as far as restorations are concerned. Their file entries are restored (which means the files are on the System) but no pre-image content is within that file. Reflect does this to keep the System image to a minimum in size. When doing a FILE & FOLDERs backup, exclusions are supported (I do not use Reflect's F&F backup capability).
