Macrium Failure & Resolution? Update

All,

I posted an earlier thread asking about whether one had to make a new Recovery Disk after an update to the Macrium program. This ties into it.

I went to perform a restore to get back something I inadvertently wrote over and failed to back-up. I went into Macrium, it had an update. I updated Macrium.

Prior to performing the restore, I imaged the drive I wanted to restore.

Selected my April image, which was made under the "un-updated Macrium". Got 75% through the restore, then it FAILED. After my heart palpitations ceased, I did the following:

Disabled Windows Defender
Disabled McAfee
Selected the July image I had just made

Restore worked fine. Thank God!!

After this, I recreated a new Recovery Disk.

I don't know if the failure was caused because of the Update to Macrium or interference from Windows Defender and/or McAfee or just a fluke.

In any case, wanted to give everyone a "heads up" on my experience. I recommend creating a new Recovery Disk after every update to the Macrium program and then creating new image(s). Might be overkill, but I would rather be safe than sorry. I was almost sorry today!!

There is one last thing I am going to do and that is to partition another small drive to hold ONLY documents.

Hope this helps.

M

I've been using Macrium for a couple of years. I would be very surprised if the image format were changed without there being a big notice, since that would break your backups. The new boot CD should be a matter of new drivers to support more storage hardware.. perhaps a new Linux kernel on occasion. I would guess it's the AV interference rather than Macrium update. The way to test would be to restore from the image that had a problem with the AV disabled.

Also, how is all the AV running in the first place if you are booting from the boot CD? It sounds like you are trying to restore from inside Windows. To get a single file back it's simpler to mount the image in Explorer and just drag the file to copy it.

Interesting. I didn't boot from the Recovery Disk. I was only restoring one drive and it wasn't my "C" drive.

Thanks for the tip on Explorer. I think I'm going to do just that. Course, I'm also going to pay attention to performing my back-ups every month like I used to!! Had every other one back-up except that one - figures

I see where Macrium finally moved to V 5. For standard it's like 1/2 price to upgrade. Then again, the one I already have works so...

Had to load an image a few weeks ago. Worked great.

NOTE: Something I forgot to share. If you do have to load a backup image, the system does have to "recognize" the drive after successful load, even if you use the same drive assignment. This freaked me out the very first time I did it

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