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Power loss while doing a macrium restore. Bricked?
I guess I've bricked my Windows 10 Home tablet. Is there any way out?
I had an offer from WU to upgrade to 19H1/1903, so I first made a macrium restore point on an external usb drive. I was doing a test restore on that when the tablet's battery ran out (at 82% way through) and everything died.
I'm sure that sounds dumb, but I don't have an alternative but to do the restore on battery power. There is only one port on the machine. It is a mini USB and is used for both charging AND data connectivity, so I can't concurrently plug-in the power AND an external USB drive/mouse (I need a external mouse to run macrium PE as the touch-screen doesn't work with PE). Previously, the machine has had enough battery life to get through a restore, but not this time!
I have macrium restore discs on (1) a USB key and (2) a microSD cards, but they seem to be of limited use.
1) Right now, when I boot the machine without any drives, I get a blue 'Windowsy-looking' screen saying:
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Recovery
Your PC needs to be repaired
Error 0xc0000225
You'll need to use recovery tools. If you don't have any installation media (like an disc or a USB device) contact your administrator or manufacturer.
Press the Windows key to use a different device or operating system
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Pressing the Windows button does nothing. The manufacturer doesn't exist.
2) Powering up the machine with the macrium USB-recovery drive plugged in, it asks for a keyboard layout then gives me the windows Troubleshoot menu
>Recover from a drive (I haven't tried this yet)
Advanced Options
System Restore
Uninstall Updates
System Image Recovery
Startup Repair
Command Prompt
More..
Choose an option:
> Continue
> Use a device
> Use Another Operating System
> Troubleshoot
> Turn Off
Those menu options work and lead to the expected submenus, but (almost) none of the sub menus actually invoke any useful processes. (for example: > Use Another Operating System > Macrium Reflect System Recovery', doesn't actually launch Macrium; "Use a device" leads to 5 suboptions, but none of them lead to anything useful happening ).
I can get to a command prompt and see drives X: C: F: (my recovery disk, which contains a file F:\EFI\Boot\bootie32.efi, which, I assume, is what has gotten me this far!); and E: (a microSD card slotted into the machine). I have a few microSD cards with macrium/windows .iso images on but the .isos won't run from the command line ("couldn't mount file").
c: has lots of my program files on it. I can run macrium.exe from the command line and it pulls up the Macrium PE User interface. When I use that to try and restore to one of my Restore points (copied to E:, the microSD card), it crashes pretty early on.
I can get to the bios, but can't see anything useful to do when I get there. Boot order is :
1 UEFI: SanDisk
2 UEFI: Built-in EFI...
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So that's it. What's the best way forward? Is it worthwhile to do a fresh reinstall of macrium from the command line? Or is that unwise? I don't want to break it any more than it is...
or is it just a matter of making a new .iso of the OS and hoping that Windows's "Recover from a drive" option (a) fixes it (b) doesn't make it worse. (Keep in mind that I can only run on battery power (for about 4 hours) if using a USB drive ).
I also have a USB drive with 'Unix Live Disk' written on it. I don't know Linux - would that help?
thanks
Hardware is a touchscreen 9 inch tablet, (not the Levono laptop in my profile)
Tesco Connect 9 tablet, manufactured by viglen
Solved - Tesco Connect Tablet - First Impressions | Windows 8 Help Forums
OS: Last seen on Win10Home 1809 Macrium 7.2. free, updated today.
I have another machine I can connect to the internet and make USB drives etc.