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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.
Cheers,
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.