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For me, Macrium reflect worked nice in UEFI both 64 and 32 bit GPT machines without any problems.
For me, Macrium reflect worked nice in UEFI both 64 and 32 bit GPT machines without any problems.
DoItJust
I'm just backing up and restoring my Image. The HD on this lap will be failing soon, I keep get msg's that HD error occurred and I should back up and replace the hard drive.
It should be safe although some (@navyLCDR) say you need to run the "fix boot problems" as a precaution.
I don't think so and I think he (@navyLCDR) is just adding to the confusion.
Just go ahead, I do it regularly; before/after installing an unknown program, before/after win update, just to be on the safe side, at least once a month in any case. It's saved my ass lot's of times.
Allways have a bootable restore media and a recent "approved image" available
fdegrove
I'm just a little bit confused on this process. You said "You reconnect your external drive and boot from it. " All I have on my 1 TB External drive is the backed up image file from my laptop. My question is that what do I need to do boot from the external drive when laptop is turned on rather than it looking for its normal drive? Please forgive me for these basic questions as I'm not an expert in deviating boot processes. Also at this same time before booting up from the External Drive containing my image back up, should I have the New HD connect by the SATA cable already plugged in or does that get plugged in after the system boots?
Do this
1 Create a bootable Macrium Media on your external 1 TB disk. This will destroy your image.
2 Test to boot from the 1 TB ext disk. At this stage you have no backup image available
3 Boot from your ext. 1 TB disk (or boot into your old normal Windows with MR installed) and create an image of the OS you want to save (the old disk you are normally running from) on your ext 1 TB disk. It will now be bootable to Macrium restore environment and hold your created image.
4. Swap your old disk for your new one
5. Boot from the 1 GB ext disk. You will now be in the Macrium PE environment
6. Restore the image from the 1 TBext. disk to your new disk.
7. Boot your new disk.
You are making a very simple thing very complicated.
Create a bootable MR disk
Boot it
Backup your image
Swap disks or whatever
Boot the rescue media again
Restore the image
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Sorry, but you are not understanding I'm not an expert asking for help. You're leaving out lot of steps for making this even more confusing for me. Please forgive me for asking you to elaborate on your suggestions, short of that, this not much help. While I understand what I need to accomplish, the how to part is important or this is not going to work for me. As mentioned, my problem is I have a failing hard drive I need to replace. I would like to save the Win 10 upgrade with all my apps installed. I do have recovery disks made from Win 7 I can fall back on, but you know what I lose in that process and I do not want to go there. Unless you can provide more Basic steps, please refrain from responding to this thread. Please don't take this the wrong way, I do appreciate your suggestions, it's just tough to sort out when we have too many cooks in the kitchen.
I forgot to ask, as a time saving effort, can I copy my saved "good image" to another external drive to avoid not having to create another image later after wiping my new 1 TB drive that you are suggesting creating a bootable MR disk? Doing that part I really have idea how to do, again my apologies for asking basic questions.