DISCUSSION - ("Cold") disk imaging

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Regarding Macrium Reflect, does the Redeploy option only appear after you've restored an image? Can it even detect whether a partition has been restored by MR and not booted yet? Their own guide talks about rebooting the Rescue Media after restoring and in another place, just talks about booting the rescue media and going straight to Redeploy, so it's not clear.

I ask because I've just made a Rescue Media ISO with it and booting it shows no Redeploy option. Obviously I want to make sure it's working before I swap out my hardware!

I built a Rescue Media ISO with the free version previously and that showed the Redeploy option but said it couldn't run it when I selected it, so I guess that feature's not in the free version but still strange that it showed the option and now the Pro RM ISO doesn't.

 

Thank you. I'll read up more on the Win8.1SE home page.

 

Turned out I didn't even need to restore my Win8.1 after going from AMD to Intel motherboard/CPU. Windows showed the "Hi, setting up" screens very briefly and then I was back at my desktop. Just had to install the drivers for NIC, Soundcard and Graphics, Intel Chipset, Intel Management Engine Interface and the Asus Thermal Probe driver.

It'll be interesting to see if Win7 goes as smoothly when I boot that.

 

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Have you ever tried these programs on devices that have a hidden recovery partition such as Dell's laptops? I'm just afraid that they can't recognize the hidden partition, so a full disk image restoration may damage that partition.


I'm now restoring only the OS partition (about 20 GB) on my Dell Venue 11 with Paragon, it has been running for 8 hours, and the remaining time is still around 5 hours Never thought it would be that slow. I miss those Norton Ghost days!

 

Was trying this three days back, although the making of that backup with Paragon HDM 14 was as fast as ATI for me, the restore progress was very slow and started counting errors for several minutes . So i skipped the process and restored via Acronis 2014 which so far never failed .

 

Yeah, backup was fine. I did a Google search and found only 3 posts mentioning this weird behavior and they all didnt wait for completion.

Actually, the restoration has just been completed on my Venue! However, it listed some amounts of errors informing it couldnt restore many files. Even though other things seem to be reset, what I want are my optimized Windows System Restore Points (created by a Dell technician) were not restored.

What I found strange is: I did a full disk image backup. But unlike Ghost, Paragon doesnt have an option to restore from the archive to a full disk! It just lets you browse the archive and choose sub-image file to restore to separate partition.

 

I read around but wasn't sure, so I'd like to ask: Can your bootable USB stick can boot on BIOS system as well?
Specifically, can we make a multi-boot USB stick that have:
- Win8.1SE 32bit that can boot on both 32bit BIOS and 32bit UEFI systems
- Win8.1SE 64bit that can boot on both 64bit BIOS and 64bit UEFI systems
- if a 32bit program can run fine on *normal* 64bit Windows, can we just make one folder for it on the stick and both Win8.1SE can use it?
Even more, can we install normal Windows from the Win8.1SE PE from that combined USB stick?

 

What happened? Why Atari800XL removed all his posts in this thread ?

 

I've just used Paragon HardDriveManagerpreview15 successfully on a Windows 8.1 GPT/UEFI system. I've use the backup/restore to virtual disk option, and save ALL partitions (included the no volumen point system reserved partition as RAW data)

My system was activated, and after clean entire disk and restore, my activation and all files are on same place as before backup.


Update:
Failed to restore same system with Acronis True Image 2013, 2014 Premium and 2015.

 

I was using DrivImageXML, but now all I use is FreeFileSync ( for backing up directories ), and Dism, BCDEdit, and BCDBoot. The trouble with most, correct me if i'm wrong, backup utilities is they do a sector by sector backup which takes longer. Using Dism you just backup the files and you can apply the image in a lot less time, and it's not dependent on partition schemes.
Also, with backup software, depending on what you back up, ( boot sector for example ) if you have a virus you just reapply it when you restore the backup.

 

there new feature in win10 9860+
in dism.exe capture whole physical disk to ffu file
its also good for flash drive save time deploying

Code:

/Split-FfuImage
  /ImageFile: /SFUFile: /FileSize:

  Splits an existing .ffu file into multiple read-only split FFU files.
  Use /FileSize to specify the maximum size in megabytes (MB) for each
  created file.

Example:
      DISM.exe /Split-FfuImage /ImageFile:flash.ffu /SFUFile:flash.sfu
        /FileSize:650

/Apply-FfuImage /ImageFile: /ApplyDrive:
  [/SFUFile:]

  Applies an existing .ffu image to a specified drive.
  Use /SFUFile to reference split FFU files (SFUs).  is the naming
  pattern and location of split files.

    Examples:
      DISM.exe /Apply-FfuImage /ImageFile:flash.ffu
        /ApplyDrive:\\.\PhysicalDrive0

      DISM.exe /Apply-FfuImage /ImageFile:flash.sfu /SFUFile:flash*.sfu
        /ApplyDrive:\\.\PhysicalDrive0

Edit:

its not applicable for windows :\
and no capture ability

 

Thought this likewise ... but was wrong. As arseny92 pointed already this is a Windows Phone Image feature and isn't new.

 

so its not working on normal disk ?

 

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I know they don't back them up. But they do read them. I was just stating my preference, and in my experience it's not so much the backing up, as it is the restoration that takes longer. Again it's my preference not a recommendation.

 

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The link is for Standard version only.

Now i have added links for the free version in my previous post