![]() ![]() The M4700 passes the Dell display/screen test, so the utter lack of a video signal to both the display and the HDMI port strongly indicates that either the motherboard or the dedicated GPU card has failed. very long story short, the M4700 never booted up normally again and - after many hours of trying this reset method and that reset method - the machine no longer displays any video of any kind. As the machine successfully booted into Win 11 - much more slowly than it does from its internal system SSD - I assumed that the cloned "disk" was functional.Īfter I returned to the M4700's BIOS and changed the boot order back to normal again. ![]() The MFR8 utility indicated that the cloning process was successful, so I changed the boot order in the M4700's BIOS to boot from the external USB HDD dock. With this in mind, I downloaded Macrium Free Reflect 8 (MFR8) and cloned the system drive in the old M4700. As it came to us with Win 11 installed and contained some pretty useful utilities - i.e., Office 2019 and Photo Shop 2020 - one of the first things that I wanted to accomplish is something that I've done with our Mac machines for several years now namely, clone the system drive to our external USB HDD dock (the "target disk"). The restore process is documented in the article Restoring a backup system image from Windows.As we have an upcoming project involving 32-bit Win XP legacy software, we recently purchased an old Dell M4700. You can boot from the Macrium Reflect Windows PE rescue media and use Macrium Reflect to find and restore your images If your whole system becomes corrupt, you can load Macrium Reflect and restore your image despite being unable to boot Windows. The restore process also enables you to expand or shrink partitions if the restore target is a new disk and a different size to the original. Macrium Reflect restores disks or their partitions exactly as they were when the backup was taken. It can even tidy up after itself – see Scheduling retention and disk space. Macrium Reflect can help you create regular images by scheduling them for you. You can read more about how to use Macrium Reflect to image your PC in our KnowledgeBase article Creating a backup image of your computer, drive or partitions. We strongly recommend that you create an image of your system at regular intervals. You would normally store the image file on local or network drives, or removable drives connected using USB or eSATA. In the event of a partial or complete system loss, you can use this image to restore the entire disk, one or more partitions, or even individual files and folders.ĭuring the imaging process, Macrium Reflect copies the contents of entire volumes including a reference to their physical location on the storage device to an image file (.mrimg). ![]() Macrium Reflect creates an accurate and reliable Image of a hard disk or the partitions on the disk. ![]() When you restore an image file, it is a “mirror” of the original disk contents. Put simply, if you use a Macrium Reflect image, that image file is an exact block by block copy of the original source disk, minus a few things such as the paging and hibernation files, which are not necessary to copy. In layperson’s terms, how does Macrium Reflect restore a hard drive back to exactly what it was? ![]()
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