I installed Macrium Free on my Dell Venue Pro 8. Then I added a memory stick and made a backup image of all the partitions on the Dell (there are 5...EFI System Partition, OEM Partition, Recovery Partition, Recovery Partition, and Boot Page file, crash dump, Primary Partion). Not sure why there are so many partitions but after the backup image was complete, I set up a rescue disk on a USB drive. I rebooted the Dell to make sure the rescue disk worked. What happens next is strange.
First, when I rebooted, the boot up screen shows both Win 8.1 and now a Macrium button. I thought I only made a rescue disk on my USB drive, but I clicked the Macrium button and it loaded Macrium just fine, or so I thought. Once Macrium was loaded, it showed the familiar backup/recovery screen that I have seen before on my desktop computer when I needed to restore an image. The only problem is this screen is frozen. I cannot access any of the functions on the screen to select the image to restore or even close the screen and reboot.
Figuring that maybe the rescue process on the tablet is not working properly, I put the rescue USB drive in and then booted again (had to hold the power key in for a while till it rebooted). When it booted to the USB drive, it went through the same steps and again loaded the backup/restore screen, but it too was frozen.
Should I have not included all the extra partitions in my image backup or is there some other issue going on here?
First, when I rebooted, the boot up screen shows both Win 8.1 and now a Macrium button. I thought I only made a rescue disk on my USB drive, but I clicked the Macrium button and it loaded Macrium just fine, or so I thought. Once Macrium was loaded, it showed the familiar backup/recovery screen that I have seen before on my desktop computer when I needed to restore an image. The only problem is this screen is frozen. I cannot access any of the functions on the screen to select the image to restore or even close the screen and reboot.
Figuring that maybe the rescue process on the tablet is not working properly, I put the rescue USB drive in and then booted again (had to hold the power key in for a while till it rebooted). When it booted to the USB drive, it went through the same steps and again loaded the backup/restore screen, but it too was frozen.
Should I have not included all the extra partitions in my image backup or is there some other issue going on here?
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows 8.1
- Computer type
- Tablet
- System Manufacturer/Model
- Dell Venue Pro 8
- CPU
- 1.33
- Memory
- 2 gigs