USB-connected SSD disappeared from explorer

togel said:

The old Ashampoo 2016 did it last time before it gave up in 6-7 hrs... MR File zise 138 GB, but Ashampoo likely much bigger as I saved 3 backups each time.

MR is efficient and doesn't back up empty space. It also uses compression.

Steve, my friend, I am closing "the business" for today. Thank you so much for this day's help and support.
Take care and have a nice evening. Thanks to other members as well for interest end valuable comments.

Tomorrow is waiting. See you

togel said:

Steve, my friend, I am closing "the business" for today. Thank you so much for this day's help and support.
Take care and have a nice evening. Thanks to other members as well for interest end valuable comments.

Tomorrow is waiting. See you

take care of yourself.

Good morning, Steve, and thank you for your last post.

Today I feel like I am back in my shoes after successfully completed my first MR backup. But the success was not complete as I forgot the USB stick. Can that be created later or do I have to start from square one again?

Correction. Yes, what I thought was a SSD was a HDD I did not find the invoice but this info was printed on the sticker on the back of the disk. Well, whatever, it is not really important as long as it is healthy.

Yes, after Windows 10 came on the market Microsoft opened up for earlier OPs to upgrade to 10 for free. At that time when I decided to do that I cloned the HDD with Windows 7 in my PC to a Samsung SSD and replaced the HDD with the SSD. With Windows 7 on the SSD I upgraded to Windows 10. I also upgraded my PC with 4 GB extra RAM to 8 GB.

togel said:

Good morning, Steve, and thank you for your last post.

Today I feel like I am back in my shoes after successfully completed my first MR backup. But the success was not complete as I forgot the USB stick. Can that be created later or do I have to start from square one again?

Correction. Yes, what I thought was a SSD was a HDD I did not find the invoice but this info was printed on the sticker on the back of the disk. Well, whatever, it is not really important as long as it is healthy.

Yes, after Windows 10 came on the market Microsoft opened up for earlier OPs to upgrade to 10 for free. At that time when I decided to do that I cloned the HDD with Windows 7 in my PC to a Samsung SSD and replaced the HDD with the SSD. With Windows 7 on the SSD I upgraded to Windows 10. I also upgraded my PC with 4 GB extra RAM to 8 GB.

Hello Tore,
You can create the MR Rescue USB any time you like. Your backup image you made is unaffected by whether you make the USB or not. The Rescue USB is very handy to have as it can be used to repair a PC that won't boot and of course make a MR backup or restore a MR backup image.

Since you have experience going inside the PC, if you have a spare drive or the original HDD drive, you could remove the current working boot drive from the PC, put in the "test" drive, boot from the MR Rescue USB, and restore the backup image of your boot drive to this "test" drive, then when the restore is finished, remove the MR Rescue USB and confirm the PC boots from the test drive. The point of this optional exercise would be to give you confidence that you made the backup correctly and see that MR can be successfully used to restore a drive. Again, this is strictly optional - I know it made me feel good to go through this exercise when I first started using MR.

And of course the "test" drive will be overwritten, but your current working boot drive would be safely out of the test