Macrium on HP

You know what..it would never have occurred to me Macrium may now work, or am I going mad?

my friend's laptop in my hands, beeing optimized, natural finale - Macrium image- there are partitions:

C - system, win7 x64
D - recovery
E - HP TOOLS
S - Files [for her files obv]

Macrium hasn't detected any of them, instead it shows the whole HD

what we can see is:
Disk 1 - Hitachi 465GB - Invalid

Is it possible that one of the services I disabled previously is responsible for this strange situation? I'm stuck...


edit/being a curious cat I just installed Paragon B&R 10 Compact Edit

all the partitions detected - ready for any operations

yet...creating image impossible...I'm more n more concerned now...

any ideas guys?

edit2/

active smart shows absolutely no problems with HDD

 

Are you running Reflect from the Windows OS or from the bootable Media environment. There are some cases where the result might differ.

You could also try a new product : ToDoBackup 2.0 Home, which is free and offers Full & Incremental imaging.

 

Yep, from the OS

I've done so numerous times on different machines.

downloading TODO2.0 - will give it a try too
name:
DISK 1 (dynamic)

any other ideas?

 

Most (all?) free imaging products do not support dynamic disks. Paragon free does not support them (the paid versions do) and Macrium does not support them at all (both free or paid).

I wonder what the hp techs "were smoking", when they decided to go with a dynamic disk.

If you want to go with a free imaging product stick with windows 7 system image.
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/Back-up-your-programs-system-settings-and-files

Panagiotis

 

darn it
finally we're getting somewhere

so it means the only solution I have is windows7

let me guess - no compression here?

it says: the copy may take up to 42GB...that's quite a lot

 

Windows 7 imaging is good , but yes if you are looking only for free solutions is your only option.

It does compress. 42gb is the maximum that could be used if your files cannot be further compressed (e.g. video files). In normal circumastances 42gb should compress to 20gb, more or less.

Panagiotis

 

we'll se when it finishes

another drawback - we can't choose what to back up - it goes with lock stock and smoking barrels i.e. the System, recovery + C although I'm only interested in C:

oh well

pandlouk, you've been most helpful

thank you all!

 

it's rock solid though.
i must've used the the imaging and restore functions of Windows 7 well over 100 times in the last 2 years.

it never failed once to either create or restore an image.

 

You are welcome.

It's a good thing that C, system reserved and recovery are backed-up (at least as an initial backup).

Another program that you could try, after making this first image with windows 7, is Keriver 1-Click Restore free. But I have no idea if it supports dynamic disks.

Panagiotis

 

Maybe you could try (risky?) to convert your dynamic disks into standard ones ? Some partition utilities do that.

 

I just used win7 but thatnks for all your other ideas gents!

was rather quick, final result is 29GB

quick one: how to hide partitions that IMO should be hidded - RECOVERY + HPTOOLS?

 

http://disk-image.net/features_help.htm

This software seems to handle Dynamic disks ! It's excellent too.

 

Instead of hiding them, remove their drive letters.
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-vista/Change-add-or-remove-a-drive-letter

Panagiotis

 

pandlouk, you rock, man