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Hello people,
First off big thanks to OP for this useful and detailed tuto.
Thanks to the tuto I successfully installed Macrium and done my first system backup shortly followed by a differential backup after I installed few softwares after my clean install.
Though I still have few wonders.
I backed up my system onto USB flash drive (D:\) then I copy/pasted my images on my C:\ SSD drive. Will I be able to restore my backup from my C:\ drive even though it was initially backed up on my USB flash drive ?
I'll have to boot my Macrium's rescue device, browse for my system image to restore and start the restoring process ? Will it work knowing the image will be on the disk that will be rewritten ?
Also can someone shed some lights on that xml files ? What it is exactly doing ?
And why Macrium saved it on my onedrive document folder and not on the same destination path as the backup image ?
Thanks in advance :)
Last edited by Arese; 06 Dec 2016 at 06:08.
You can not restore a drive (such as C) if the Macrium image is located there. You can restore the C 'drive' if the Macrium image is located on a separate partition on that single drive.
Not sure if that's what you meant :)
No idea on the XML file. It sounds like you have altered an option somewhere.
@Arese No you can't. When you do a restore,your hard drivethe C: partition will be wiped out and replaced with the image. You won't be able to initialize the restore process with the image on the same drive.
If you want, you can create a separate partition just for the image.
I usually just uncheck the xml option and never bother with it.
Last edited by badrobot; 06 Dec 2016 at 10:04.
Yes you can. I do it all the time. Only the partitions selected for a restore will be wiped.
I think confusion comes from the terms 'drive' and 'partitions'. A single HDD (such as in a laptop) once correctly partitioned is just fine for storing images of what will become the C partition.
Single partition with Windows installed would be a C drive in my terminology.
That drive partitioned into two (or more) would become C partition PLUS D and so on. Macrium images would be stored on the D partition.