System Repair Disc Not Bootable in Win10

Hi,

I'm not sure how that worked out for you, but I'm glad it did.. Anything that makes life easier..

Did you need to restart your computer to finish the image recovery.. I did notice on my error messages something about adding WinPE\Macrium to the boot menu, but I never tried that..

Regardless.. Be sure you have a Macrium CD just in case the machine crashes and will not boot at all..

Out of curiosity, I am going to try the other options..

I at times still use the Backup and Restore Windows 7, but that is usually in addition to either Acronis or Macrium..

To answer your question in 1 word, yes. Here's what happened. I did a full backup to an external disk drive using Macrium Reflect. It went okay. I then invoked Macrium Backup to do a restore of the backup image on the external disk drive to the hard drive on my computer. When the restore process started, I got a message which goes something like this, automatic boot into Windows PE. I clicked to continue. I then got another message immediately afterward to restart so I let the system restart on its own. The restore process trudged along until the end when I got another restart message. Again, I let the system do its thing. I'm not technically proficient enough to understand what all that means. What I do know is that it works.

Hi,

I was able to duplicate what you describe.. I learned something today.. I don't know if this is a new feature, or if I had not noticed the option before.. I did notice that some of the other options were a bit different with this version of Macrium that the one I had been using..

What happened when trying to restore my image is that I got the screen you describe... The first of the two I posted.. In my case, Macrium downloaded a 975mb WinPE file and incorporated it into Macrium and the Boot Menu.. It then did a restart and loaded the image..

I also ended up with an addition to my Windows boot... An option for Windows 10, or Macrium, with a 10 second delay to make a selection before the machine defaults to Windows 10..

You can also download and save this file from Macrium (pe10_1709x64.zip), and install it manually..

This is the exact same file needed to create a bootable Flash Drive.. Just browse to the zip file when creating the media..

One thing to remember though.. This will only work if your machine can boot to the Boot menu or Windows 10... If your hard drive fails, you will need the Flash Drive with Macrium to recover it, or to load your saved image to a new HDD\SSD..

I mistakenly failed to reference advisor Time Lady on 07/12/20. I apologize for that. Credit should be given to the right person.

At your urging, I created a bootable rescue CD/DVD in Macrium Reflect as additional recovery insurance. I tested it out by restoring an image file of my hard drive and it worked ok.