For those who wonder if the Backup image also stores pagefile.sys/hiber.sys/swapfile.sys
The answer is: it does not even though when mounting the image, it shows the size of those files but in fact they have 0 byte size.
The screen shot below shows the pagefile.sys is set at 20GB but the backup image is only ~11.3 GB
OK.- I burned an image of the original system and burned it to DVD's.
I've downloaded Win10 from Microsoft and burned it to DVD.
Before clean installing I downloaded HP PC Hardware Diagnostics and did an extensive test which passed. No hardware problems. Clean install went OK as far as I can tell.
However, I am still getting screen blackouts every 3 seconds, freezing cursor, partially unresponsive start-menu and blue screen telling me windows has problems and needs to restart. Fan blows full speed most of the time.
In short, the HP is worse than ever.
When burning the install DVD I let it check the intergrity of the install files. It passed.
I'm downloading updates as we speak. Let's see how it goes.
Updates from microsoft installed and computer restarted. No change.
Downloaded HP Support Assistant, searched for updates. No updates available.
I thought that HP update assistant would download and install HP drivers into the clean install,-or does it not?
Also let it scan for problems,-no problems found, which is almost funny since the condition of this HP/Win 10 is so severly problematic that it's a miracle that the support assistant will run at all. And still, after scanning the system, it finds no problems . . . wow!
Win10 is now restored from the image to it's original state, I have no intention of diagnosting the clean install.
I'll bring the HP in for service under warranty and claim to have a new HP. If the store refuses I'll file a written complaint to the HP head office in Norway.
I did not pay a 1000$ to do service for free . . . period!
Last edited by emtor; 14 Apr 2018 at 05:58.
@topgundcp
I didn't say that Macrium backed up his pagefile and hiberfile. He asked about the 64GB which fit on to 5 DVD which would at 4.7GB (i think) be major compression. I was saying that the 64GB was including the pagefile and hiberfile which made it so much to appear that size. He could have 24GB of page and hiber easily, which when not backed up with Macrium would make it easier to compress that drive onto 5 DVD.
As I said, I use the built-in system image regularly (someone has to :)) so I can comment on that. While there are no user controls for the level of compression it uses, it does automatically switch to high compression when making an image on DVDs. Having imaged the same system to both DVD and HDD I can confirm the DVD image is significantly smaller. It's also significantly slower to make/restore the image due to the extra compression.
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