Sorry to trespass on the good will of those who helped before, but I have some points which I can't find answers to - despite extensive Googling.
Following advice when I had a virus infection a few days back, I bought another external hard drive; I now have two - on the larger of which I have copied as a back-up all my valuable data - documents, photos etc.
I downloaded the Macrium program and after running that I have a CD Rescue Disk (which I assume is useful only if the PC won't boot by itself) and I was then prompted to to install WAIK (Windows Automatic Installation Kit), which I put on my smaller external hard drive, and then to make an image of my Drive C:, which again I put on the same external hard drive. My thinking was, that if I am having trouble with my internal hard drive, there's not much point in having too much recovery stuff on it.
My question is, what do I actually do if my Drive C: fails? The Macrium program is on Drive C:, so presumably I wouldn't be able to access it and in fact if Drive C: isn't working how can I even access my external hard drive?
Sorry to ask what is probably a very basic question, but I feel I've just invested time and money in something which I don't know how to use.
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You answered your own question, You boot the recovery cd that you created earlier. That gets you access to your recovery hard drive and the images thereon.
Last edited by: Zero on Sun 2 Dec 12 at 12:37
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>> My question is, what do I actually do if my Drive C: fails? The Macrium
>> program is on Drive C:, so presumably I wouldn't be able to access it and
>> in fact if Drive C: isn't working how can I even access my external hard
>> drive?
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>> Sorry to ask what is probably a very basic question, but I feel I've just
>> invested time and money in something which I don't know how to use.
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In the earlier thread, I pointed you to video tutorials by Macrium.
They are also on Youtube. www.youtube.com/user/Macrium
The one which relates to your question is
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfQ6xB3pCh4
"Restore an image using Windows PE in Macrium Reflect v5
This tutorial shows how it is easy to recover your system using the Macrium Reflect Windows PE rescue disk."
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Thank you both and sorry to John H for not having followed his links; I must admit to being resistant to "hold-your-hand" things and, for example, do not read flat-pack instructions. Make of that what you will, but it's probably that I want to understand basically what I'm doing and then suss it out the detail as I go along.
However, with the complexity (and sometimes lack of intuitiveness) of computers I probably don't stand much chance!
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Hard disk image - Zero
