I know that this has been answered before, but I can't find the answer in this thread. Assuming that you have the boot menu option for MR and there is a new update to the program, how do you update the boot menu? Do you uncheck it and then re-check it again? (I know how to recreate a boot disk or thumb drive; I'm asking about the boot menu option.) Thanks.
Alex, you are correct. Just execute a "No menu" operation under the creation area, then re-do that with selecting your needed PE... a re-build will be done and installed if necessary.
Thanks Froggie. Now for a more complicated question. I remember you answering something similar to my question for Palderdash. I even copied the text. But, he was looking for total manual backups and he wanted an icon on his desktop that gave him an option for the type of backup. I run what I think is GFS. I do a full the first Monday of every month. Then, I do incrementals every Monday-Friday. I retain the full images for 26 weeks and retain the incrementals for 30 days. I'm finding that I do most of my computer "work" on weekends (i.e. program updates, windows updates, create new documents, etc.) I realize that I can always go back and restore to my Friday incremental. But, what I'd like to be able to do is do another incremental right before doing one of the above (i.e. before windows updates). I used to use AX64 for this purpose--create essentially a snapshot before I do a bunch of computer work. But I'm finding AX64 less and less reliable. So, is there a way to do a manual incremental on my existing GFS chain on Saturday or Sunday? Can I essentially use MR to take a manual incremental and have it "attach" to my existing GFS chain? I hope I'm making sense with my question....
Hi Alex! In the Macrium UI, <select> your BACKUP TAB. Then move to the RIGHT pane and <select> the Definition you would like your MANUAL operations to follow. Then in the ToolBar above, <click> on the icon to the LEFT of the WRENCH... it's called "Create a desktop shortcut of the selected file." This opens up a ShortCut creation windows with 2-fields... the first allows you to use a DropDown to select one of four options (Full, Incremental, Differential & Prompt). Select the type you would like to create when you do your MANUAL snapshot. All are self describing except PROMPT. The PROMPT option when run produces its own separate window (at run time) that allows you to select your image type (FULL, DIFF or INC) but also allows you to comment that image... I find this extremely important when looking over these images later to see why I even made them. In the shortcut setup, all options except PROMPT will execute that type of image creation when you <double-click> your created desktop shortcut... PROMPT will bring up that window described above. The 2nd field is where you name your shortcut. When you hit OK, the shortcut will be placed on your desktop... from there you can put it anywhere you'd like. From here on, just fire off that shortcut each time you want a MANUAL image. BUT remember, in your GFS definition, you need to have your incremental retention set up for DAYS, not BACKUPS... other wise you'll start losing important incrementals due to the extra MANUALs being taken along the way.
Froggie, you are a gentleman, a genius, and a great frog as well! Thank you! I've been wanting to do this for a long time. Now, I can uninstall AX64.
Brian, I was just going to ask you for more clarification as to your commands re D:\folder and whether D was referring to just a folder on any drive or a new partition I needed to set up. While I was drafting this I checked once more to mount the image and noticed a little tick box to allow access to restricted folders when mounting the image via Macrium. I had overlooked that yesterday and by ticking this now, I am able to access the desktop easily. Thank you for your help as usual.
I finally received a complete explanation in relation to CBT's interaction during Lite Visualization sessions under LIVE Windows. As of now there should be no problems using LV while CBT is active on one's system.
For all, I already tested with ShadowProtect. Imaged before, enter shadowmode, exited and reimaged with no problems,, All worked as expected. Restores of both fine. Am away until Wed, but will torture test when I get home.
Issue reported with V1366 regarding boot media not being able to mount and explore Image. Macrium responded in their forum that they are aware of this and will have it working soon.
OK so they say there is no such thing as a dumb question. I just upgraded from Win 8.1 to 10 and there are no apparent problems. 1. Would there be a problem to just continue my scheduled overnight incremental / GFS chains? i.e the older images would be 8.1, and from tonight Win 10. 2. Should I uninstall and reinstall the boot menu (I see it's still there after the upgrade aand called Windows 10 iso Windows 8.1). And also create a new boot disk? Edit: I will keep a last full backup of 8.1 in any event, in case I need to revert.
I'm not sure what your W8.1 config was but if the W10 upg modified or added that new 450mB Recovery partition, the existing chains will start from a FULL when executed... other than that all should be fine.
It doesn't look like the W10 upgrade added a new 450MB recovery partition ... In fact Macrium shows the following which IIRC is much as it was before, with the C: system drive still referring to Win 8:
just tried a restore from an image and right at the end at 99% it states "handle is invalid" . I am not sure how to deal with that. I tried two images from two different sources, a networked drive and a plugged in usb drive. As a result my OS drive does not even show anymore in Macrium's Disk Image. Any suggestions?
Froggie, I had upgraded from Win 7 to 10 via internal upgrade and due to some issues wanted to go back to Win 7 to try again the upgrade but via the installation stick I had previously done. The rescue media is recent PE 5 V6.1.1225 but not the latest one.
Your recovery image... does it contain a full UEFI partition (System, MS Recovery, MS System Recovery Partition, C: ) set or a Legacy MBR partition set (MS SRP and C: )? If not either, what does it contain and what, is any other partitions, are on the media your are trying to recover to (DATA partitions, etc.)?
...and that missing drive, is the whole drive gone or just the partition in question? Sometimes when a drive doesn't show up under the PE, you have to invoke some sort of "Select another drive" option near the bottom of that display to actually see the drive.
Froggy, the image was the the Macrium default choice for the OS. As for the missing drive, I am not sure if I am digging myself into a deeper hole all the time. I thought it might have something to do with the raid set-up, so I removed the raid card and while I now can see the drive again, at the moment I am unable to access the image on the external usb. I just checked that the image is still available and visible using a different pc. Stresslevels are rising
Ok, I now can see the usb drive again and another restore is running now - fingers crossed. I hope I am not getting the invalid handle again. No luck - the same error as before. I can mount the image on a different pc, so I am confident the image is fine but something seems to be wrong with the destination drive. I may need to reformat the drive, set it active but probably will need some advice on that and then give it a fresh start.
beethoven, If you have an Entire Drive image I suggest you run Diskpart on that drive and use "clean". For example... (Replace the number “X” with the number of your disk. It will probably be 0) command prompt diskpart list disk select disk X list disk (to confirm. There will be a Star next to the selected disk) clean exit exit Then do the restore to the empty drive.
Brian, thanks for chiming in. After unsuccessfully fiddling around last night, I finally decided to replace the drive and managed to restore my image and things are working again. I am however back in Win 7 now and feel a bit hesitant to try again, given the flak I received locally after creating the problem in the first place. While my partner thinks the problem was caused by Macrium not being able to handle SSD properly, I think this is unlikely. I can only say that the first restore failed with the strange "invalid handle" error message. I believe this in turn caused the drive to be "invisible", something in the structure to be changed that required fixing. While I tried to format the drive using Bootit, I probably did not know the correct settings and due to this did not fix the issue properly. I chose format, NTFS but left the other settings as per default. This made the drive visible again in the recovery environment but the restoration failed again with the invalid handle error. Getting impatient we decided to try reinstalling Win 7 from a installation disk and when this also failed, chose a new drive. The original drive had been fine until earlier this evening and I only decided to roll back to Win 7 as I had some issues I believed were related to the video card - in fact they were due to the monitor only. I plugged in the drive into a enclosure and could copy a file onto it but I am not sure if I can do a diskpart on it without having to open again the pc and fiddle with the raid. I think I would rather not do that. At this stage I am happy that he pc is running again though I still would like to know what caused the original invalid handle issue and how I should have formatted the SSD to make it work again after the initial problems.
