Farside
Badly Welded Man
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Just a heads-up - beware of having your eggs in the Macrium Reflect basket.
I had two Macrium backups made last year of Win 10.
The latest W10 update royally screwed over my boot sector and crapped over other things, too.
Macrium reflect boot CD would load but it wouldn't recognise nor read either of the two Macrium backups.
It was only by getting down and dirty and reconstructing a semblance of a boot process using gparted and all that stuff I was eventually able to get back into Windows and rescue some stuff I needed.
I think the problem stemmed from the old W10 being substantially different from the newer ones, and it might be that the backups I made wouldn't have worked even before this episode anyway. MS are on a bit of a hiding, in a way, in that they have to make sure every configuration is catered for, and that's next to impossible.
In summation; make sure your backups are still readable. I still don't know what the readability problem is, as both drives the backups were on are working perfectly fine.
Back on Mint for the foreseeable, and just running Win7 in a couple of VMs, quite happily for the legacy stuff.
There was freebie VMWare Workstation Pro offered to the public a year ago, and I'd registered for it, but never used it. It's got its quirks, but it's better in some ways than Oracle Virtual Box.
I had two Macrium backups made last year of Win 10.
The latest W10 update royally screwed over my boot sector and crapped over other things, too.
Macrium reflect boot CD would load but it wouldn't recognise nor read either of the two Macrium backups.
It was only by getting down and dirty and reconstructing a semblance of a boot process using gparted and all that stuff I was eventually able to get back into Windows and rescue some stuff I needed.
I think the problem stemmed from the old W10 being substantially different from the newer ones, and it might be that the backups I made wouldn't have worked even before this episode anyway. MS are on a bit of a hiding, in a way, in that they have to make sure every configuration is catered for, and that's next to impossible.
In summation; make sure your backups are still readable. I still don't know what the readability problem is, as both drives the backups were on are working perfectly fine.
Back on Mint for the foreseeable, and just running Win7 in a couple of VMs, quite happily for the legacy stuff.
There was freebie VMWare Workstation Pro offered to the public a year ago, and I'd registered for it, but never used it. It's got its quirks, but it's better in some ways than Oracle Virtual Box.
took two days to copy a terrabyte drive...
