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Check with a few data recovery specialists on well-known, well-respected data recovery discussion boards and with their companies.

A while back, there was very in-depth, thorough documentation about how many recent hard drives, hybrids, solid states, etc., work.  Also, caution was encouraged about Spinrite 6.0 and 6.1 and other similar products.   Caution is necessary because such products might clash with the low-level workings of recent and present-day hardware.

I have used Spinrite 6.0/6.1 in my 100MB+ hard drive/DOS 3.3/Windows 3.11 days.  It was a hard drive report card tool for me.

Test on non-critical hardware before using such products on business hardware.

 

 

"Take care of thy backups and thy restores shall take care of thee." Ben Franklin, revisted

This topic has been very informative!

"Take care of thy backups and thy restores shall take care of thee." Ben Franklin, revisted

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Ed Tittel

WSRolandJS wrote:

“Remember Cleanup Preferences.”

That’s the part that does not work, at least not for me. 

Clicking on Remember Cleanup Preferences, exiting program, wait a few seconds, re-enter program, only the Defaults are remembered, none of my preferences are remembered.

 

Otherwise, the program does a great job! 

Guess what?  Now, SCleaner saves my preferences!  Win-Win!

"Take care of thy backups and thy restores shall take care of thee." Ben Franklin, revisted

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SueW

Ed! How are you?!? I use still a couple of Ye Olde File Systems, FAT and NTFS. When I was substitute teaching, I still remember subbing for a class in which your son was one of the students! Please tell him I said hello to him and to all of you/family.

"Take care of thy backups and thy restores shall take care of thee." Ben Franklin, revisted

“Remember Cleanup Preferences.”

That’s the part that does not work, at least not for me. 

Clicking on Remember Cleanup Preferences, exiting program, wait a few seconds, re-enter program, only the Defaults are remembered, none of my preferences are remembered.

 

Otherwise, the program does a great job! 

"Take care of thy backups and thy restores shall take care of thee." Ben Franklin, revisted

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SueW

Bbearen, I created an 800MB partition, which is presently Unallocated and Un-named.

I have your tutorial; however, I have no idea what my next step is.  Even though I can read and understand English, I cannot extract what my next step is.

"Take care of thy backups and thy restores shall take care of thee." Ben Franklin, revisted

Will be following your tutorial, will report results after full backup, after adding partition, after adding material, and testing…

"Take care of thy backups and thy restores shall take care of thee." Ben Franklin, revisted

Win10_21H2_English_x64.iso — that’s the file I got from TenForums suggested website: https://tb.rg-adguard.net/public.php

After I burn an original and a backup DVD, how do I use it to create a proper winRE and winPE WIMs?

"Take care of thy backups and thy restores shall take care of thee." Ben Franklin, revisted

I have Windows 10 Professional, is there an ISO for that?

Windows 10 21H2 build 19044 1645

I’m fighting a slight head cold,  not at my best.  What is the best URL for that ISO?

"Take care of thy backups and thy restores shall take care of thee." Ben Franklin, revisted

After a full backup, I will resize “C partition”, shrink it by 500MB.  Move the unallocated 500MB to in front of C partition, and just behind the two current Windows 10 system partitions – which will remain untouched.  Your WinRE article will be followed to the letter.

"Take care of thy backups and thy restores shall take care of thee." Ben Franklin, revisted

Ok, I worked with the things I knew of.  I found and downloaded ADK for Windows 10.

Using IfW, I think I had it create winre.wim – which I found buried in a IfW subdirectory.

Using IfW, I think I had it create winpe.win – which I found an old copy in an MR subdirectory and buried inside a Windows Kit subdirectory.

What I do not know:  the keystrokes to make IfW into the boot menu just like Macrium Reflect is in the boot menu.

https://www.askwoody.com/forums/topic/create-an-image-for-windows-rescue-drive/

The above link is related?  It sure appears to be!   

 

 

 

 

 

"Take care of thy backups and thy restores shall take care of thee." Ben Franklin, revisted

The only link I can see is the image of Image For Windows.  I am unable to see the tutorial link.

"Take care of thy backups and thy restores shall take care of thee." Ben Franklin, revisted

After clicking Utilities, which is a new button for me   – I click on Create/update tbWinRE.

The following screen disappears so fast that the only thing I see is a green bar going across the screen…I do not know where to go from there.

"Take care of thy backups and thy restores shall take care of thee." Ben Franklin, revisted

Can a web site’s “busy-ness”, ie things running on the site which affects a local browser, also do this?   Years ago, I had a friend design his own web site, later on, dialed back a lot on his busy stuff.  My dial-up back then did not “like” his web site until after his dial-back.

"Take care of thy backups and thy restores shall take care of thee." Ben Franklin, revisted

I found out once the hard way to always, after a backup/restore program is updated, make a new DVD and a new USB boot — so that the external boots required for restore matches.

"Take care of thy backups and thy restores shall take care of thee." Ben Franklin, revisted

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SueW