Had a similar issue to the OP's recently. After years of using Macrium reflect I get a verification error for the first time, so I run metest86 & there are no memory errors, I uninstall /re-install...

I think I covered it on post #2 but thanks for elaborating TM.[/QUOTE]


... indeed you did, and many thanks to all who replied with advice, I'm downloading Macrium free edition at the moment

yes it was a recovery, system image backup created a folder on a separate hd, then I booted the win-10 preview, went into repair, selected restore from image, and it finds that folder, probably...

cheers mate, I stuck the image on a USB stick and it boots off that.

Coming directly from win-7 to win-10 preview, it took longer to locate the "image backup" option in windows 10 than it did to make the image. Cortana searches didn't help, "system image", "disc...