I started using Macrium. It did something to my external hard drive because it says ‘system reserved’. How do I fix? The external hard drive is 250GB and it looks like the system reserve is 100gb. I had both my computers backed up on this hard drive.
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The OP is confused because in all likelihood the Reserve partition is not shown on his desktop along with his C\ drive and any other partitions or drives he may have because it is “hidden”. For some unknown reason when I installed Win 7 the installation chose to make the drive visible and allocated “H” as the drive letter.
When he uses Macrium for his backup Macrium sees the drive and provides a box to place the check mark along with the C partition, both boxes must be checked in order for the backup to be successful. Trust me I have done this many times and all my backup restorations have been successful.
minuan you say that no file is appearing on your external drive! My backup files are shown like this: D685F8AC848D895D-00-00.mrimg. I leave Macrium to allocate the image name… do you have any files like this on your backup drive? If I “mount” this file it will show both drives because both are included in the one backup.
It appears from your second posting that you may have selected only the Reserved partition for backup. This serves to show that double posting on a single issue only serves to confuse… stick to this posting.
There is an excellent tutorial here: http://www.macrium.com/webtutorial/…
You ask how you can see the contents of the image, under the “Restore” drop down menu there is an entry “Explore Image” click on it and follow the prompts. The process is dead easy! If you have further questions fire away here or PM me.
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