Micro sd card in phone - can Macrium read it


  1. Posts : 11,247
    Windows / Linux : Arch Linux
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    Micro sd card in phone - can Macrium read it


    Hi there.

    I haven't tried it yet but with the 128 and 64 GB micros sd cards available I was wondering if say a Macrium image could be saved on to one of these cards - and could the stand alone boot recovery medium recognize the phone so the image could be restored.

    (I'm not thinking of BOOTING from the phone --standard USB to load the recovery program).

    I think it would only need for the smartphone driver to be added to the WINPE environment --sounds like a little interesting project for someone with a little time.

    Anybody had a go at this and got it to work -- preferably with an Android type smart phone. Windows itself can see the card as another disk without having to install extra software so presumably the latest WINPE environment could be made to recognize the phone.

    I like the idea of having a backed up image on a phone - that way you'd presumably never have a problem wherever you are to restore the image,

    BTW from within Windows Macrium will backup to the card - but for speed it's better to backup to SSD and then copy to the phone -- USB3 connection port is fine.

    Of course if your laptop has a built in SD reader - the micro sd adapters work -- you just then take the micro sd card out of the phone and put it into the SD adapter for the restore -- however just having it on the phone makes it very convenient. My Windows backup images are typically around 27 GB.

    Cheers
    jimbo
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  2. Posts : 15,441
    Windows10
       #2

    jimbo45 said:
    Hi there.

    I haven't tried it yet but with the 128 and 64 GB micros sd cards available I was wondering if say a Macrium image could be saved on to one of these cards - and could the stand alone boot recovery medium recognize the phone so the image could be restored.

    (I'm not thinking of BOOTING from the phone --standard USB to load the recovery program).

    I think it would only need for the smartphone driver to be added to the WINPE environment --sounds like a little interesting project for someone with a little time.

    Anybody had a go at this and got it to work -- preferably with an Android type smart phone. Windows itself can see the card as another disk without having to install extra software so presumably the latest WINPE environment could be made to recognize the phone.

    I like the idea of having a backed up image on a phone - that way you'd presumably never have a problem wherever you are to restore the image,

    BTW from within Windows Macrium will backup to the card - but for speed it's better to backup to SSD and then copy to the phone -- USB3 connection port is fine.

    Of course if your laptop has a built in SD reader - the micro sd adapters work -- you just then take the micro sd card out of the phone and put it into the SD adapter for the restore -- however just having it on the phone makes it very convenient. My Windows backup images are typically around 27 GB.

    Cheers
    jimbo
    I really doubt this is possible - Adding drivers is not that simple. Although mobile phones can be seen from Windows, they are more like a network drive than a local drive with a standard drive letter. Anyway, it is just as easy to use a usb SD card reader, or internal sd card reader if pc has it.

    Frankly, I would not trust the reliability of an sd card anyway, especially one being continuously accessed by a mobile phone. The failure rate is just too high.
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  3. Posts : 1,020
    Windows 10 Pro 20H2 19042.572
       #3

    I have a SD card slot that is part of my ASUS W10 Tablet that I tried to get M.R. to see and back it up. No such luck. I was suprised that the software didn't support it. When selecting which drives to backup, M. R. does not show that device. I also tried to make it a target for backup, again it wouldn't see it. It maybe the format ie: Fat 32 ?
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