Recent content by cybor462

Heah TM My new system is a stock HP. I never looked to see if they use plug in boards on any of the USB ports. My point is that there are a number of things that could cause a restore to fail and you won't know it until you try to restore it. Not only hardware issues but there may be a system...

That is a great response. I have owned Reflect for a number of years. It has current updates to which I always let it auto update. It does have a verify option which I of course always have turned on. It certainly increases the backup time for good cause but........ As I mentioned to Ztruker I...

Ok I got that now. Once and done. I still find it so hard to believe that there is no other way. How bout Win 10 ? I plan on updating right away. Any known issues upgrading? Would I have same issues with that verifying an image?

I agree 100% the only problem is if I try to restore the backup and it screws up then I've just lost my system again because I have no way to restore it

To clarify my external hard drives had the problem USB boards on my old XP system backup failures. I still use them today just not for backups.

In my case on my XP system it was incompatible USB ports and drive roms. I had 1.0 + 2.0 USB drives. After loads of research and much smarter people than I on forums like this one we found that the Western Dig drives I had were blessed with flaky adapter bios/board. I am sure my computer USB...

Well I have a couple of one terabyte internal drives I have a Mac computer and I used to do video editing so I have a number of 1 terabytes that I can probably reformat and use if I had to I kinda wanted to avoid having to swap out drives every time I want to test a stupid image file because I...

Ok I have been reading about VHD and so far I have read that without Win 8 Enterprise or Pro it won't boot natively. If I am trying to see if the image is a good one I guess I can't make a VHD that will boot Windows if all I have is Home Edition. Guess I have no other choices unless I am wrong...

Ztruker Thanks a bunch for sticking with this. Funny I just noticed your in Fl too. I am in Ocala a bit north of you. I looked at that thread. It sure is very detailed and I could do it. I want to ask about whether that would be a boot drive since it says it is a secondary drive. Would that be...

HI That's what I am trying to avoid. I have all external drives so they cant be put into the system. I read somewhere about Virtual disk. Is that possible and how might that work? Thanks

I was wondering if a Restore can be done to an external hard drive I'm thinking that it almost has to be a system disk and I didn't know if there was any type of workaround to be able to restore to an external hard drive make it like a boot drive

Ztruker I got a UPS don't want to deal with that again. I won't mind restoring it but I just want to restore it to an external hard drive because I don't want to take a chance on messing up the system now because it's working so good and without knowing if the backup will restore I didn't want...

Hi All Ok first I am not a techie so I apologize up front. :confused: I just had my Win 8.1HP desktop crash after a power blip on shutdown. Our power down here in Florida goes out for a 5 sec. period quite often. Just happened as my machine was shutting down...

doing it now

dont see one got it