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Thanks for the reply, no harm in doing it I suppose :)
Do I re-format the drive or just overwrite it?
Last edited by stuarttunstall; 29 May 2017 at 09:17.
Hi,
No need to reformat, just let MR do its thing.
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Not required, but you may want to consider adding the Macrium Rescue PE Environment as an option on the Boot Menu. Easy to do, and a safeguard/backup if booting from the thumb drive fails for any reason.
There are two ways to do this - one from Macrium Reflect boot menus that cleverly uses the installation on the C drive.
The other option is to use one used by some here is to create a small partition, copy all the files from Macrium Rescue iso, and create a boot entry. I prefer this personally as I then delete the boot files on the C drive that take up quite a bit of space. Also, if the C drive gets corrupted, the recovery files are not affected. Of course, nothing protects against drives failing, so you still need the boot drive.
Thank you all for the advice... :) makes things a lot easier when you get help from people who know what they are talking about :)
I agree. And there are other factors that may be involved. If your system has had driver updates and/or any hardware changes, it is important to let Macrium rebuild the PE environment, or there is a risk the current thumb, even though bootable, may not function correctly. And each machine should have it's own Thumb Rescue.
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