win10 update lost alll my customizations

dalchina said:

Over a network speed could be slowish compared to USB3.

the network might be slow, but using it one would not have to read the file twice. for me copying the backup to USB-hd takes some 30hrs. maybe the USB ports on the old NAS are only USB-2. i wish we were still in the pre-nvme era, when one could be up and running in 5 minutes by swapping in a cloned HD.

now that i had some time in my hands, i figured out why macrium rescue doesn't see the network. it's because the stupid laptop manufacturers don't put in an ethernet port anymore, and winPE does not see a network card that's in a USB-c dongle...

dalchina said:

Hence the hint by Macrium about incorporating a custom driver when making its Win PE bootable disk.

good hint, but i think winPE does have the right drivers, but dell (in my case) makes the usb-c visible only later in the boot process.

nonetheless, someone should do something to alleviate this.

back up and running. i was saved by windows.old reversion in the end - but not before i'd spent days backing up my stuff. as i will not have the cajones to try win update again, what if i just put in a USB with later build of windows? is it gonna upgrade?

and yes, macrium is able to see the network if the recovery disk is created on the same machine - only, it still can't connect to it...