![]() ![]() followed by the disk’s model number and size so that you can verify you’re looking at the disk you want. They will be identified as “MBR Disk 1,” “MBR Disk 2,” etc. If you have more than one physical disk on the PC, you will see more than one row of disk partitions. (I always include the “factory image” D: drive for good measure.) Make sure that all the partitions on the physical disk that contains your OS are checked off. The version is 5.1 I remember long ago making a conscious decision not to update it because newer versions dropped some feature that I considered important, although now I can’t remember what that was…Īnyway, what you (probably) want to do is to select all the partitions on your system drive: go to the Disk Image tab and select the “Create a Backup” tab there. Hope this helps others remember, we’re all a n00b at I use Macrium Reflect. Since he has Version 5.1, some things were new in Version 7.1, but the process of creating the image was the same. Thanks to Cybertooth, who talked me through the Main Event, the actual “Image this disk”. “Add a boot menu option to start the Reflect recovery environment”-Done. Once inserted (can’t remember if I pressed the power button or now), the Macrium Recovery screen appeared! Hope that issue with the black screen doesn’t reoccur. Not the infamous Blue Screen of Death… just a black screen with a white cursor.Īfter swirling the cursor around the black screen, doing Ctrl+Alt+Delete a few times (spoiler: nothing happened), & pressing the power button twice (same spoiler), I used my last resort… removing the laptop’s battery, waiting, & re-inserting it. Huzzah! Clicked on the Macrium choice &… black screen. My choices were Windows 8.1 & Macrium Reflect System Recovery. Turned on my trusty ASUS again & saw “Choose an operating system”. ![]() At the end, I was instructed to boot from the recovery environment (to be sure it works, of course). Next, clicked on “Add a boot menu option to start the Reflect recovery environment”. I shrunk the partition to provide more than enough free space. Disk Manager wasn’t that hard at all, especially when ‘Action>All Tasks’ gave me options to ‘Expand Volume’, ‘Shrink Volume’ & ‘Delete Volume”. Win 8.1 is smart enough to find “Create and format hard disk partitions” when I type “disk partition” on the Start screen. “Hello Disk Manager, my new friend” (sung to “The Sound of Silence”, Simon & Garfunkel). Macrium also says that if my PC boots in UEFI mode (which it does my ASUS X55A came with that & Win 8, which has been “updated” to Win 8.1), “then your must format your rescue media using the FAT32 file system.” I had to shrink my existing partition to create free space for a new FAT32 partition. I needed free space in a different partition to create my rescue media. DANG, What the Heck? I learned that my 1TB was all in one partition. Surprise! I got an Error Code 6 “No Free Space Available”. So, I clicked on “Create bootable Rescue media”. I figured I still had more than enough left for everything. Other than software that came on it, I used it for occasional File History backups. I have an external Toshiba Canvio USB flash drive with 1TB total storage. My first step, according to Macrium, was to create bootable rescue media. Preparing to do the backup, a minor problem that seemed major at 1st. Downloading & installing Macrium 7.1, not a problem. This process showed me I’m not the techie I thought I was. Since I’m still on Windows 8.1, I decided to go with Macrium. Among the free products he mentioned to do the backup was Macrium Reflect. Scary, but very good advice concerning the craziness in January. Among his ProTips, #3 was: “Make a full system image backup before you install the January patches”. When Woody moved us to MS-DEFCON 3, he eventually linked to his latest post in Computerworld. ![]()
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