Missing Partitions Found. Should I Try To Restore Them?

With Macrium Reflect, you can mount a backed up partition to a drive letter. This would allow you to poke around to see what was on those partitions and even copy off any data that you might need.

hsehestedt said:

With Macrium Reflect, you can mount a backed up partition to a drive letter. This would allow you to poke around to see what was on those partitions and even copy off any data that you might need.

I know what they are, at least by name:

1. Winretools 2. Image (None) NTSF) 3. Dell Support

They have always been there since I started using this computer last May. Why they did not get installed when I used a Macrium Reflect Full Backup, I don't know. I created the backup created a few days before the hard disk and ssd were replaced, which I certainly hope will stop the crashes caused by the bios (or whatever) losing track of the boot order. This malady started not too long after starting to use the computer; Dell tried very hard to fix it through remote support sessions, decided finally to do the replacement.

A short time ago, before starting this thread, I assigned number 1. to G:, and took a quick look at it; it contains all sorts of wonderful things, where "wonderful" is a synonym for "I have not any idea what any of this is."

jumanji said:

Sorry if I haven't quite understood what you have stated in your first post.

1. When the technician installed the new SSD, was it blank, or it came with the factory installed OS? If the OS was already installed, you have to necessarily complete OOBE and set it up as if you got a new Dell PC. Do you remember it was it?

2. If the replaced SSD came with Factory installed OS, then it would have necessarily come with the WinRE Tools, Image and Dell support Partitions. Did you see it?

3. Whether the original SSD and the replaced SSD are identical in all respects - atleast capacity wise??

4. You were advised - if I am correct - a full disk image before the technician arrived. Are you sure you did it? The full disk image should have contained, the 1.ESP 2. MSR 3. C: 4. WinRE tools 5. Image and 6 Dell Support. Are you sure you did it by selecting all? Did you check all six partitions were checked for backup?

5. If you had done it so, there is absolutely no chance for the Macrium Restore to miss the last three partitions.

My screenshot:



OK, this was with MR run from within Windows.

If I image running MR with its WinPE rescue media - my preferred method - then I click on "Image selected drives on the computer" , deselect all the unwanted data partitions ( which are seperately backed up with Syncback free) leaving only the other six partitions to be backed up.

Thanks for joining in.

1. Windows was installed. I don't know what OOBE is, but I do know that when the tech left, the computer was installing a large number of files that it said would have been on the computer when it left the factory.

2. I don't know if the three partitions now missing were there before I ran the Macrium Reflect Full Backup.

3. Old and new SSDs were/are the same size.

4. Just to be certain, I again opened the full backup; all six partitions are checked for backup.

5 Perhaps Macrium could not miss the last three partitions, but I just looked at the full backup that ran after I had run the one I used to restore my files, etc., and only the first three partitions are shown. That is why I believe that they were not restored; are they hiding somewhere, or were they not restored?

In your first post, you state:

"found that three of the six partitions in the Macrium Reflect full backup used for the restoration did not get installed."

In your most recent post, you state:

"I don't know if the three partitions now missing were there before I ran the Macrium Reflect Full Backup."

Does the first statement contradict the second?

Or do I misunderstand?

ignatzatsonic said:

In your first post, you state:

"found that three of the six partitions in the Macrium Reflect full backup used for the restoration did not get installed."

In your most recent post, you state:

"I don't know if the three partitions now missing were there before I ran the Macrium Reflect Full Backup."

Does the first statement contradict the second?

Or do I misunderstand?

There is no contradiction: I was answering your question.:

"2. If the replaced SSD came with Factory installed OS, then it would have necessarily come with the WinRE Tools, Image and Dell support Partitions. Did you see it? "

In other words, I did not look at the ssd partitions that were there before I ran my full backup.

Not Myself said:

There is no contradiction: I was answering your question.:

"2. If the replaced SSD came with Factory installed OS, then it would have necessarily come with the WinRE Tools, Image and Dell support Partitions. Did you see it? "

In other words, I did not look at the ssd partitions that were there before I ran my full backup.

Apparently, you have been misinformed.

I am not Jumanji.

I had not previously asked you ANYTHING.

ignatzatsonic said:

Apparently, you have been misinformed.

I am not Jumanji.

I had not previously asked you ANYTHING.

I was not misinformed, I was "misread". That is, I saw the link, logged on, replied, without taking a moment to see who had posted the reply. However, the intent of my `misreply' was correct.

At least I believe that this reply is correct.