Cannot boot from Flash Drive

[SIW2]

There are several bcd edititng things out there. Bootice is great. Does a lot of things, including a bcd editor which does not require bcdedit.exe

It doesn't have every possible function, but is handy.

 

[David Bailey]

It doesn't substitute for external media - that is always needed just in case. Access from boot menu can be an extra convenience.

I just made the standard macrium winpe thing on my machine. It doesn't seem to offer to add a menu option. Is it hidden somewhere?

No biggie, if you know where the wim and sdi are, can be added to boot display menu without any trouble. ( Hotkey is better, but more difficult to do. )

Not sure what you mean about the Winpe thing.
Could you post a screenshot of it ?

 

[David Bailey]

This thread has taught me something about human nature.
I like learning new stuff.

It gives me a guideline of how to do things in the future.

This is interesting. Would you share the things it taught you. When I posted my little problem, I did not think the thread would have such a success - and longh after my problem was solved.

It pays to be nice & really put some effort into helping others.

 

[whs]

Yeah it does pay to be helpful. I guess that's why we are all here.

 

[SIW2]

"Add Recovery Boot Menu Option" doesn't exist.

It doesn't substitute for external media - that is always needed just in case. Access from boot menu can be an extra convenience.

I just made the standard macrium winpe thing on my machine. It doesn't seem to offer to add a menu option. Is it hidden somewhere?

No biggie, if you know where the wim and sdi are, can be added to boot display menu without any trouble. ( Hotkey is better, but more difficult to do. )

Not sure what you mean about the Winpe thing.
Could you post a screenshot of it ?

 

[David Bailey]

"Add Recovery Boot Menu Option" doesn't exist.

View attachment 35733

It doesn't substitute for external media - that is always needed just in case. Access from boot menu can be an extra convenience.

I just made the standard macrium winpe thing on my machine. It doesn't seem to offer to add a menu option. Is it hidden somewhere?

No biggie, if you know where the wim and sdi are, can be added to boot display menu without any trouble. ( Hotkey is better, but more difficult to do. )

Not sure what you mean about the Winpe thing.
Could you post a screenshot of it ?

Are you using the free or paid version ?

The menu option is located as shown in this picture:

 

[SIW2]

I am testing with macrium free.

If I was using just a free one it would be Aomei Backupper.

Macrium likes to put in c:\boot. Now I am going to find what it does if c:\boot doesn't exist.

 

[David Bailey]

A picture of Paid Version:



The Free Version may be different.

 

[David Bailey]

The paid version is well worth the money.(My opinion.)

By the way, They put out an update to Reflect today.
I set mine to automatically check for updates.

 

[SIW2]

You get all the function with Aomei - incremental, differential, scheduling, very simple to use, ( file backup will be added soon ) winpe creation, which includes windows recovery options, and it is a bit quicker. It is also free.

I do have the paragon registered version. But I use Aomei for my imaging.

Paragon is useful because it has extra ( possibly somewhat esoteric ) disk management stuff.That doesn't depend on using the paragon imaging , you can use those on any drive/restored image.

Looks like macrium will create the c:\boot folder if it isn't already there. It created the folder ok, but keeps crapping out trying to create the image. I had uninstalled the old and installed the new version you mentioned.

 

[David Bailey]

Good luck with the hot key creation.

I didn't have to uninstall mine.

The new patch overwrote the old stuff & no reboot was required.

 

[SIW2]

I didn't have to uninstall either. I had already created winpe with the old one. Therefore I uninstalled it in case it confused the new one. I also got rid of c:\boot folder.

I then installed and ran the new one to see what it would do if there was no c:\boot folder for it to put the winpe into.

The result is that it creates a new c:\boot folder.

( It failed to create the winpe image, though.That is not very encouraging)


We now know the paths will always be %systemdrive%\\Boot\macrium\WAIKFiles\iso\sources\boot.wim
and %systemdrive%\Boot\macrium\WAIKFiles\iso\boot\boot.sdi

 

[David Bailey]

Did you install the PE environment ?

Something like 2 or 3 hundred MBs.

A picture:

 

[SIW2]

Yes. it knows they are , it does the copying and craps out on mounting.

Never mind. I am not likely to use it. The exercise was to find the paths.

We now know the paths will always be %systemdrive%\Boot\macrium\WAIKFiles\iso\sources\boot.wim
and %systemdrive%\Boot\macrium\WAIKFiles\iso\boot\boot.sdi

Now it is easy to add boot menu option. ( hotkey option is trickier so will leave that for the time being).

 

[whs]

Just as a piece of information for you guys. I had never tried to make a free Macrium image on a micro SD card. Tried that today and it works for imaging and recovery.

For my new Asus Transformer tablet I will get a 64GB SDXC micro SD card and keep a couple of images on there (the C partition is only 16GBs). Then I am safe during travel and don't have to haul the SSD around that I use at home for images.

 

[SIW2]

Yes, I expect it would support all storage devices recognised by windows. Don't they all do that?

If you mean this, there is allegedly a massive price reduction at amazon, almost 75% off.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/SanDisk-Mobile-MicroSDXC-Memory-Adapter/dp/B005LFT40G

 

[whs]

They are even cheaper here. It's about time they come down from their fantasy prices.

Amazon.com: SanDisk 64GB Mobile Ultra MicroSDXC Memory Card with SD Adapter

 

[SIW2]

Probably, UK prices include 20% tax. They are usually much more than 20% on top of the US price though. Often 50-60% higher.

 

[whs]

Right, prices here are without sales tax because that is different in every county/city. But usually the tax is only around 6% - sometimes none. And if you order from Newegg, there is no tax except when you live in California or Tennessee because that's where they have their warehouses.

 

[David Bailey]

I have a card reader slot on the front of my computer.
It will read the tiny cards that belong to my camera.
My cards are only 4 GBs.

I know I could Google this, but would like first hand experience information.

Could I get a card of 124 GBs or so & use it to save system images to it.
( If the card would be cheaper than a comparable usb drive. )

Thanks for any input.