Solved macrium image verification

billybellfoot · Dec 11, 2012

i dont know if i have done the mount thing right ? but i will put a screen below i think i did correct and have opened c drive also to compare and looks like image has more files and folder than origional? C: win OS (left in pic) macrium image (right in pic)

billybellfoot · Dec 11, 2012

also i have after doing the mount procedure i have this
D: partition appear in my computer how do i remove or should i / shoiuldnt i remove?

thanks

whs · Dec 11, 2012

1. It looks like your image is 16GB, not 7. That makes more sense.

2. Looks like everything is there.

3. The VHD will be automatically dismounted when you shut the system down. Tomorrow you won't see it any more.

billybellfoot · Dec 11, 2012

oh ok but in my external hdd image folder appears as 7gb see screen below

billybellfoot · Dec 11, 2012

2. but everything is there then? thats good then the image is ok then?

3. i right clicked ans saw unmount so clicked is that ok or did i do wrong??

thanks

whs · Dec 11, 2012

Hmm, that is strange indeed. Your image VHD (D: drive) shows 16GB used. No idea where those 7GB in the image properties come from. Set your F: to "details View". What does it say under 'Size'.

ad2) looks like the image is complete.

ad3) That's OK.

billybellfoot · Dec 11, 2012

thanks ok i will check now and post screen

whs · Dec 11, 2012

I just took an image of C: which is 29GB of data. The image is 16.6GB and it took 5:45min.

billybellfoot · Dec 11, 2012

so am i doing something wrong? as mine is 34gb took 14 mins and was only 7gb ?

i have just started running a second image of the win os partition. il let u knoow hoew it comes out size time etc (says its going to be 14 mins again) could be my little atom processor? affecting the image creation time.. and mec hdd to mec hdd transfer speed?

whs · Dec 11, 2012

You are doing nothing wrong. I image from a SSD to an internal HDD. I can do even faster when I image to my eSata SSD. Your times are completely within the norm for the setup you have.

billybellfoot · Dec 11, 2012

here we go i have taken a screen of finished image process.. see what u think? am i doing something wrong?

billybellfoot · Dec 11, 2012

You are doing nothing wrong. I image from a SSD to an internal HDD. I can do even faster when I image to my eSata SSD. Your times are completely within the norm for the setup you have.

thought my set up may be cause of increased image creation time.. but im doing the procedure correct then? why the descrency in size i wonder? does your image appear smaller in the external hdd image folder than it does in vhd? like mine or is yours say 16gb in both locations? just wondering?

billybellfoot · Dec 12, 2012

is that image ok then? i have posted screen shot for you to take a look at it appears as 34gb win os partition has been shrunk compressed to 7gb but on the vhd it appears as 16gb? wich is right/wrong. and does this mean my image is good or bad?

thanks

whs · Dec 12, 2012

Your runtime is OK, don't worry about that.

But the 7GB image still puzzles me and also the fact that your VHD is not equal to the OS partition. Here is a comparison for the image I took yesterday. The VHD is equal to the C partition.

billybellfoot · Dec 12, 2012

hmmm yes that is strange very????

did you see the screen i provided?

so do you think my image will be ok or no?

whs · Dec 12, 2012

I looked at all your screens and superficially it looks OK. But we don't know what may be missing inside of those folders. There is a chunk of bytes missing in your image and that does not sound right.

I suggest the following - Boot your PC with the WinPE CD and take an image with that (same as with the installed program). Then let's see what we get.

billybellfoot · Dec 12, 2012

0h ok so boot the recovery tool and create an image using the macrium program that loads within win pe and try that.
and see what that tells us

when you say chunk of bytes missing? how do you tell from what i could see macrium image had more files and folders than windows itself?

as for folder i have checked easch folder on virtual disk and compared to win disk and each one has the same files in side like for like. but i will still try the win pe recovery image creation method..

thaks

whs · Dec 12, 2012

Let's just try with the WinPE to double check. If that comes out with 7GB too, then we are on the safe side.

I was just concerned that your Macrium installation may have a little defect. Even if all the folders are there, it is hard to check whether all the data is there too. But maybe the compression is right because you have a lot of 'dead space' - e.g. large page and hibernation files.

billybellfoot · Dec 12, 2012

hi

ok im just boting into winpe now il do the image now and report back asap

thanks

billybellfoot · Dec 12, 2012

image completed

it took 29mins to complete as appose to previous took 14mins to complete could be that it was made using winPE i suppose

also i noticed when using winpe it stated it was 64bit edition. my win version is 32bit ed is that ok that its different on the winpe macrium recovery?

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