Restoring disk image

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Andy

I have used Macrium Reflect to restore a disk image.

I have always restored from an image on an external drive to my C: drive with no problems at all.

When I tried to restore to another drive, Macrium does not show any drives to restore to nor can it find the image that is on a USB external drive.

Any ideas as to the problem ?

Thanks.
 
Andy said:
I have used Macrium Reflect to restore a disk image.

I have always restored from an image on an external drive to my C: drive with no problems at all.

When I tried to restore to another drive, Macrium does not show any drives to restore to nor can it find the image that is on a USB external drive.

Any ideas as to the problem ?

Thanks.
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Macrium can be run three ways:

1) As an application from within Windows.
2) From its Linux rescue CD.
3) From its WinPE rescue CD.

When run from Windows, it would have some kind of log
of where it stored the .mrimg files.

Disk detection will depend on drivers, to some extent.
When running in Windows, it should find all the drives.
I would also not have predicted a problem finding
drives in the other environments. Where you will
have problems in (3), is if the .mrimg is stored
on a network file share. As the CD doesn't have
NIC drivers.

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You should describe more fully how you're running it.

If it's (1), I can't really explain why it isn't working.
It should have. You can try browsing until you find the
..mrimg file. I don't know of a way to convince it
to find a disk drive. It should at least see the disk
drives that Disk Management sees. If you're plugging
in a portable USB, *after* starting the application,
then exit the application and start it up again, to
have it scan the drives. Or, see if there is an option
in the menu items, to re-scan for drives. If all the
drives are present, before you use the app, that
improves the odds of finding the drive.

Paul
 
I have used Macrium Reflect to restore a disk image.



I have always restored from an image on an external drive to my C: drive with no problems at all.



When I tried to restore to another drive, Macrium does not show any drives to restore to nor can it find the image that is on a USB external drive.



Any ideas as to the problem ?



Thanks.
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It is being run from a WinPE rescue disk.

I normally run it from a Rescue CD but my desktop does not have one, so it is being run from a flash drive.

Andy
 
I have used Macrium Reflect to restore a disk image.



I have always restored from an image on an external drive to my C: drive with no problems at all.



When I tried to restore to another drive, Macrium does not show any drives to restore to nor can it find the image that is on a USB external drive.



Any ideas as to the problem ?



Thanks.
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I got the image restored.

It boots to XP, but then shuts down.

I think it is because all the hardware is different from the original.

Andy
 
Macrium can be run three ways:



1) As an application from within Windows.

2) From its Linux rescue CD.

3) From its WinPE rescue CD.



When run from Windows, it would have some kind of log

of where it stored the .mrimg files.



Disk detection will depend on drivers, to some extent.

When running in Windows, it should find all the drives.

I would also not have predicted a problem finding

drives in the other environments. Where you will

have problems in (3), is if the .mrimg is stored

on a network file share. As the CD doesn't have

NIC drivers.



******



You should describe more fully how you're running it.



If it's (1), I can't really explain why it isn't working.

It should have. You can try browsing until you find the

.mrimg file. I don't know of a way to convince it

to find a disk drive. It should at least see the disk

drives that Disk Management sees. If you're plugging

in a portable USB, *after* starting the application,

then exit the application and start it up again, to

have it scan the drives. Or, see if there is an option

in the menu items, to re-scan for drives. If all the

drives are present, before you use the app, that

improves the odds of finding the drive.



Paul
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Life is always interesting. :-)

I started with trying to restore a disk image (from one computer) to a new drive on a second computer. (Computer 2)

It installed, but it would not run.

That morphed into a project to put XP onto a second drive on Computer 2.
(I knew that I only had 30 days to evaluate it. I simply wanted to see if Linux Slacko and XP could "play nice together on my desktop system."

They play together fine on my laptop.

Win XP was looking for Win 98, so I started the Win 98 installation.

I used a method to install Win 98 and XP using a pen drive since my desktop has no CD/DVD player. (Maybe that is the problem. ?)

I have never had problems installing to IDE drives, but this installation was to a SATA drive.

Have a great week,
Andy :-)
 
Andy said:
Life is always interesting. :-)

I started with trying to restore a disk image (from one computer) to a new drive on a second computer. (Computer 2)

It installed, but it would not run.

That morphed into a project to put XP onto a second drive on Computer 2.
(I knew that I only had 30 days to evaluate it. I simply wanted to see if Linux Slacko and XP could "play nice together on my desktop system."

They play together fine on my laptop.

Win XP was looking for Win 98, so I started the Win 98 installation.

I used a method to install Win 98 and XP using a pen drive since my desktop has no CD/DVD player. (Maybe that is the problem. ?)

I have never had problems installing to IDE drives, but this installation was to a SATA drive.

Have a great week,
Andy :-)
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When an upgrade disc looks for the previous OS, can't
you just show it the CD of the previous OS ?

For WinXP, you'd want to take the BIOS SATA setting off AHCI,
if that is what it is currently. Use the vanilla IDE emulation
mode on the SATA.

Also, you'd want to examine the WinXP CD to see what
Service Pack it includes. As the driver situation, and
the disk capacity issues, change with service pack.

Paul
 
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