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what is the brand and model of your machine and I will find out for you.

ASUS Notebook K40IJ/K50IJ series

Thanks.

You do not boot the rescue disk “in” windows. You will need to put the disk in the CD drive, and reboot your machine. As your machine boots up, there will be a key you need to push on the keyboard to tell the machine to boot from cd. The machine should then boot from the CD and you will be in the linux restore environment.

Did it as described but did not know about a special key to use to “tell” the machine to boot from CD drive. Can you share about where this special key is? I may be able to search elsewhere for this information. Thanks again.
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Ray/FL

The paid version has image management. The free version does not.

If you are into .bat scripting you can write a batch file using the forfiles command to delete all images older than XX# of days. You can then use the task scheduler to run it on whatever schedule you prefer.

Here is the Microsoft documentation on the FORFILES command.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc753551(WS.10).aspx

WARNING, anytime you do delete processes with a batch file, Test TEst TEST before you turn it loose on your production machine….

I would consider the Macrium Free version to be a somewhat manual process although you can schedule the backups themselves with it.

The bottom of the following page has the comparison of features between the free and full versions:

http://www.macrium.com/reflectfree.asp

Please help with this problem. I’m stumped at the best course to follow.

I am using Macricum Free to Image to a external drive and have made two images and today tried to deal with the Rescue Disc in Lynux .

The problem is the Lynux disc will not boot in Win 7 Home Premium. The advance disc would not boot. So.. How to work around this? Buy Macricum? Thanks for the rich help offered here.
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Ray/FL

Bbearren,

This stuff that is on the WD drives is actually in firmware instead of on the drive itself. I could describe my idea of the intelligence of the developers of this but it would not be good for the forum……

(they do have a way to hide it but you can never actually remove it.)

This is a puzzling statement. Please flush it out a bit more. Bbearren indicated he cleaned the drive of this ‘program stuff by delete and repartition. You indicate it is not on the drive but is rather firmware and not subject to removal. Does this ‘program stuff’ remain active after a delete and repartition action? Please try and explain this to me. Thanks.

Which drive are you getting? some of the WD drives have software imbedded in the firmware that you have to hide to make the drive act just like any other drive. If you find that WD wants to manage your backup and also shows up as another CD drive, you will want to change the settings to hide this software so you can use the drive as a normal hard drive for image backups…..

Don’t expect any unusual features – just a simple large enough external hard drive. One never knows for sure however. It is described as:

Western Digital 2TB WD Elements USB 2.0 External Hard Drive
Mfr: Western Digital
Item#: 10414928
Mfg. Part #: WDBAAU0020HBK-NESN

I’m getting an external hard drive (WD 2 TB} to backup laptop with Win7 Home Premium. Any comments on setting up the external HD? Anything special needed to do or useful? Been using DVD discs and find that I’m charmed with todays report on backup programs by Lincoln Spector as well as the comments in this thread. Want to get the external hard drive set up a best way and get a current overdue image made. Thanks to all.

Searched for and found installers and fixed the problem. Removed the troubled program and reinstalled. Everything is fine now and thanks very much. I used Revo and it is good.
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Ray/FL

I found the same issue today on a new Win7 64 laptop being setup. One of the programs installed was Alwil Software Avast5. Called it up this morning to set it up ans received the same message regarding side-by-side configuration.

I accept the suggestion by bbearren as the way to best deal with this problem BUT.

Avast5 is not showing in the programs so is not available to be removed and I cannot find a way to remove it. Should I attempt to install over it again? I would rather remove it first but don’t know how to do it. HELP please and thanks a lot.
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Ray/FL
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