Macrium Reflect restore issue / question...?

SIW2 · 23 Oct 2021

You can try f6 ing them, but I prefer to whack them into boot.wim image 2 with dism

Bree · 23 Oct 2021

Darkstrike said:

Thanks once again for the reply Bree! I am doing a clean Win10 install on the new laptop as we speak. I don't have a Macrium USB though? I was just using the software on the hard drive? Should I set up a recovery USB as well then?

How exactly do I restore only the C:/ partition? As somebody who is mostly used to just doing disk clones with Acronis or Clonezilla, Macrium is a bit new to me...

To make a bootable Macrium Reflect recovery USB, plug a USB stick into a machine that has Macrium installed, then open Reflect and select Other Tasks > Create Rescue Media...

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Boot from the Macrium USB you made. You can delete the C: partition on the destination drive, then click and drag C: from the system image and drop it into the space created. Fix Windows boot problems is on the Restore menu when booted from the Macrium USB.

SIW2 · 23 Oct 2021

Drivers linked to previous post. Here https://mega.nz/file/asE0BRjC#GMnbtN...i77vxVDCIK8RxY

https://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c06983517

Darkstrike · 23 Oct 2021

SIW2 said:

You can try f6 ing them, but I prefer to whack them into boot.wim image 2 with dism

No idea what you mean by 'F6-ing' them or a boot.wim.

I'm just booting off the usual Win10 install USB created with the Media Creation Tool and it's not showing me any drives. There's an option there to 'Load Drivers' so that is all I've been trying to find drivers that work with the laptop's drives?

- - - Updated - - -

OK - Update, managed to use one of the drivers in the package you supplied @SIW2 to get the Win10 installer to see the drives....yay!

Fresh Win10 install in progress :)

Will report back when it's done and I have Macrium installed to try the image restore again!

SIW2 · 23 Oct 2021

No idea what you mean by 'F6-ing

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It shows you with screenshots in the link above from HP.

If you want the drivers in there permanently:

Look in the sources folder of your installation usb stck and you will see the little fellow called boot.wim

boot.wim contains 2 images.

In dism++ click File >Mount Image

Mount image 2 with dism++ ( after browsing to boot.wim, select image 2 in the dropdown) to any empty folder ( or just create a new empty folder )

click drivers in the left pane of dism++

Then click ADD button and browse to the folder containing the drivers. You will see it adding the drivers which only takes a few seconds, then it will tell you success

Then click File >Save ( dont do incremental save - overwrite the existing image , when it asks)

Then click File >Unmount Image

It takes about 60-90 seconds to do the above.

http://gh.api.99988866.xyz/github.co...0.1.1002.1.zip

Darkstrike · 23 Oct 2021

@SIW2 @Bree

Ok, Win10 reinstalled and Macrium reinstalled.

Now, how do I go about only recovering that one partition to get this sucker booting correctly? :)

SIW2 · 23 Oct 2021

You want to get macrium to create boot media - using winre will be fine..

If you havent got a spare usb stick, you can do a little cheat.

You can copy the "boot.wim" macrium creates into your installation media sources folder - rename the original win10 boot.wim to something like boot10.wim, then copy in the macrium one.

Macrium boot.wim has only 1 image, so I would suggest dism++ing those drivers into that.

Darkstrike · 23 Oct 2021

SIW2 said:

You want to get macrium to create boot media - using winre will be fine..

If you havent got a spare usb stick, you can do a little cheat.

You can copy the "boot.wim" macrium creates into your installation media sources folder - rename the original win10 boot.wim to something like boot10.wim, then copy in the macrium one.

Macrium boot.wim has only 1 image, so I would suggest dism++ing those drivers into that.

I've now already created a Macrium Rescue USB....will that work?

SIW2 · 23 Oct 2021

Try booting it up and find out.

Darkstrike · 23 Oct 2021

SIW2 said:

Try it and find out.

OK, booted to the Macrium Rescue USB.

I have the external HDD plugged in that has the Macrium image saved to it. Where do I go from here? I assume 'Browse for an image to restore'...? So I did that and selected the image, but unsure where to go from here to recover that ONE partition as from here on out is how I screwed it up last time...?