I have a Macrium full backup saved on my external hard drive. I double clicked it there and Backup Selection popped up. Which one would i need to select to get just my BIOS back to the date I made the full backup? I see: Recovery Partition (first), EFI System Partition, OEM Partition, and another larger Recovery Partition (last), which of these would restore the just the BIOS to the date I did the full backup? Do I still need Macrium software sitting on my desktop to do this or is it done straight from the external harddrive where the full backup resides? Note: not referring to rescue media disc here Macrium Reflect free latest version
The BIOS is firmware on the motherboard. It is completely separate from the hard drives. Macrium Reflect doesn't back it up.
Let's forget about the BIOS for a second, lets say I wanted to restore the full back up. I double click the full disk image residing on my external drive and then tick the boxes for all the partitions and then just follow prompts? Lets say I had changed the partitions since the full backup? Will Macrium handle resizing during restore? I'm restoring on the same computer.
IF it's just the MBR. Can't that be restored through repair install then choose Command Line? Done this many times but I have a Legacy MBR.
As stated on the earlier posts, Macrium has nothing to do with your BIOS or it's settings. The first quick medicine could be, try resetting all the settings of your BIOS by removing the bios battery off the motherboard. On laptop's it is usually a flat CR-2032 round lithium cell battery. Keep it removed for some 10 secs for BIOS to reset back to it's defaut settings.. Here's a link which demonstrates with text and pictures,for both desktop/laptop computers, on how to reset the bios manually. If that does not work, and you have made sure nothing is defective on your computer's motherboard, and you are SURE that some virus has FLASHED YOUR BIOS, Do not use that computer for the time being, don't power it on! You should head then immediately to your Computer manufacturer's homepages,and look for Bios apps/tools. If they don't have any, you need to head over to the BIOS manufacturer's pages.. They usually have FLASH tools,and current/earlier versions of BIOS'es for your computer, but make sure you pick the right version. The first thing you want to do then after flashing back the correct bios, is to take backup of it aswell. You could then use that tool on a WINPE Disc (or a windows installation DVD,scroll down the page for guidance, for win xp/vista/7/8/10 on how to enter command prompt) to flash again the bios, Flashing your computer with a wrong bios could brick it. Hope this helps. ps. if some virus flashed your bios, the option in bios "reset to factory defaults" probably won't help then, or resetting the cmos by removing the battery.. Also a good thing to note is, the date and time of your computer might go crazy and reset everytime the computer is started, if the bios battery has gone outta power,then you just need to replace it. Also, an defective motherboard could wreck your computer booting,and partitions, which happened to me with a 6 months old computer, which had defective motherboard. (BCD was going crazy on it's own, and first I was 100% sure i had some rootkit on my computer or some virus had flashed my bios, but that was not the case) luckily i had 3 years warranty on it,so i just took it to warranty maintenance, and they replaced the laptop with a new motherboard, then everything was working fine again..