It's confusing to read, and I'm sure it confusing in person. So, you had this setup and when you needed it to work, it failed.
This is NOT what a Dual-Boot is for.
Between looking in the BIOS and/or dis-connecting a SATA cable, you should be able to figure-out which physical HDD is on SATA-0, SATA-1, etc.
The Macrium HDD doesn't have to be bootable. It just needs to hold whole system backup Images. If you ever need to, you would boot the system with Macrium Rescue Flash-Drive and "bare-metal" restore.
It can be Internal, but I suggest in an External USB-3.0 Enclosure. That way, you can take it off-site or grab it quick (along with the kids and pets) as the house is burning down.
I do Daily Macrium Reflect Differentials, and Monthly Full Backups ... all going back 3 months and with auto-purging ( to make room). Everyday, I get a notification that the early morning Image-File backup and Verify was successful.
Thanks for the information, this is very interesting.
I presume that dual booting is for different operating systems on the same drive and not for operating systems on different hard drives?
And when you are using Macrium, I presume that you image the disk, is this right? When I use it, I am cloning the disk and what I was doing was setting up an entry in the boot.ini file but I now wondering as to whether this was only ever booting from the original copy.
Thanks for the information, this is very interesting.
1. I presume that dual booting is for different operating systems on the same drive and not for operating systems on different hard drives?
2. And when you are using Macrium, I presume that you image the disk, is this right? When I use it, I am cloning the disk and what I was doing was setting up an entry in the boot.ini file but I now wondering as to whether this was only ever booting from the original copy.
1. Correct. That is how I've used it in the past. I used to have a laptop that Tri-Booted ... Windows Vista, Windows-7, and Windows-8.
2. Yes, Image with Verify. Image-Files are portable. You could take a copy of a recent Whole-System Full-Backup Image-File ... at leave it at your parents house or in a safety deposit box.
Last three Months of Monthly Full Backups and with last 90 days of Daily Differentials (they take like 15 minutes)... mine fit on a 2tb USB HDD. That's just something you can do with free versions (paid version does more). Sometime during January or February, you could grab a copy of Jan,1, 2018 Full-Backup and save it somewhere else ... yearly backups forever.
Tesla1856
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May 6th, 2018 08:00
It's confusing to read, and I'm sure it confusing in person. So, you had this setup and when you needed it to work, it failed.
This is NOT what a Dual-Boot is for.
Between looking in the BIOS and/or dis-connecting a SATA cable, you should be able to figure-out which physical HDD is on SATA-0, SATA-1, etc.
The Macrium HDD doesn't have to be bootable. It just needs to hold whole system backup Images. If you ever need to, you would boot the system with Macrium Rescue Flash-Drive and "bare-metal" restore.
It can be Internal, but I suggest in an External USB-3.0 Enclosure. That way, you can take it off-site or grab it quick (along with the kids and pets) as the house is burning down.
I do Daily Macrium Reflect Differentials, and Monthly Full Backups ... all going back 3 months and with auto-purging ( to make room). Everyday, I get a notification that the early morning Image-File backup and Verify was successful.
Lusky
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May 6th, 2018 13:00
Thanks for the information, this is very interesting.
I presume that dual booting is for different operating systems on the same drive and not for operating systems on different hard drives?
And when you are using Macrium, I presume that you image the disk, is this right? When I use it, I am cloning the disk and what I was doing was setting up an entry in the boot.ini file but I now wondering as to whether this was only ever booting from the original copy.
Tesla1856
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17.3K Posts
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May 6th, 2018 14:00
1. Correct. That is how I've used it in the past. I used to have a laptop that Tri-Booted ... Windows Vista, Windows-7, and Windows-8.
2. Yes, Image with Verify. Image-Files are portable. You could take a copy of a recent Whole-System Full-Backup Image-File ... at leave it at your parents house or in a safety deposit box.
Last three Months of Monthly Full Backups and with last 90 days of Daily Differentials (they take like 15 minutes)... mine fit on a 2tb USB HDD. That's just something you can do with free versions (paid version does more). Sometime during January or February, you could grab a copy of Jan,1, 2018 Full-Backup and save it somewhere else ... yearly backups forever.