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Is this normal behavior using the Macrium Reflect free boot media?
I am running Windows 10 home.
Recently installed macrium free latest V6 version. Previously used Acronis.
I created the rescue media on cd.
Booting from a cold boot with the cd, I can see the read/write light on the cd and hard drive activity on my tower, but all i am getting is a blinking cursor on the screen.
I read it may take a while to load, but is this normal and how long should i wait to see if it loads.
I am concerned by all the disk activity and nothing happening so I have turned off the computer and reboot normally. I would like to test the restore cd out to make sure it works.
I don't want the Recovery Boot Menu Option because I think it writes to the MBR. I had a nightmare with Acronis which by default writes to the MBR.
Acronis would load its restore media in about a minute, as will Aomei Backupper and Ashampoo backup as well as the windows 10 backup cd I burned.
So what is a normal wait time for the cd to load and is the blinking cursor normal?
Thanks.