11bravo

Drive I IS the insides of a Macrium image file. I had just stepped down to a common subfolder rather than highest level to show it can be done, along with a search query (upper right). The drive icons are tiny, but careful examination will show drive I has a different drive icon than the others as it is a mounted volume.

And to mount, it's as simple as double clicking on the image file; Macrium handles all the icky stuff as to mounting. MY experience, most users DO understand a "double click". Now building a bootable USB drive with a recovery environment might be a different matter, but Macrium walks you through that too (and nags/reminds you to do it).

Does the internal windows image creation capability allow differential backups as the FREE Macrium Reflect does as well as verifying the image is readable (verify after creation) along with being able to add a comment to the image? And does it clone drives? Myself, I was taught to clone a failing drive and use the clone to attempt repairs to eliminate as much stress as possible to the failing drive.

But the tools you use are up to you (ah, that Norton Ghost in DOS... a lifesaver for sure...)

therwol Loc: USA

Maybe a little too deep into particulars, but the concept is, "Don't let this happen again. Have a backup plan in place." Nothing wrong with saying that and making a suggestion or two.

TriX Loc: Raleigh, NC

Agreed. One positive (if there is one) from making mistakes is to learn how to keep from doing it again.

Regarding Profbowman’s comment(s), you are missing the point that 11bravo and others are making about Macrium (which I use also). You are not restoring the clone inside a virtual machine with the original OS running - there would be no reason to do so if the original OS would run. You simply clone the OS (or the entire disk) to another disk, and then if the original OS becomes corrupted or inoperable, you simply boot from the clone - couldn’t be simpler. For example, when I replaced my C: drive with a larger SSD, I simply kept the older smaller SSD (which was large enough for the OS and associated files) and renamed the drive letter. Now if the OS becomes corrupted, I simply change the boot drive - couldn’t be simpler.

therwol Loc: USA

I've done this many times when I've cloned a smaller disk to a larger one as a replacement, and most of the time I've kept the smaller one intact.

Dave Flash Loc: South Jersey

I received a lot of help from everyone. I’m in the process of reinstalling light room 6.0 and really need light room 6.14 to work with my files. Is there anyone know how I can find a copy of light room 6.14?

Dave Flash Loc: South Jersey

I’m in the process of reinstalling my programs. My data seems to be secure. I’m trying to install light room 6.0 but really need light room 6.14 to work with my files. Any help to locate a copy of 6.14? Thank you all in advance for all of your help.

TriX Loc: Raleigh, NC

There’s a link to the Windows installation file on this site, but I haven’t tried to install it. Any chance you have the install file in your (hopefully backed up) download folder?
https://prodesigntools.com/adobe-cc-2015-updates-links-windows.html#lightroom

11bravo

Ah, that's a good idea which I'll have to remember. Unfortunately, it seems I never have any spare mobo sata slots nor mobo extension slots available for a "standby" OS drive. HOWEVER, I do keep my replaced OS drives, and straightforward to put in an external usb dock and boot from there. Thanks for the idea.

TriX Loc: Raleigh, NC

As a matter of fact, Macrium (free version) asks me on boot up which drive I want to boot from. Reverting to the clone is as simple as choosing the other drive. If I do nothing, it boots from the new drive. Of course the older OS drive doesn’t have the latest changes I’ve made or the latest Windows updates, but at the same time, if the new drive is compromised or corrupted or encrypted by ransomware, it is unaffected. That’s the downside of real-time mirroring - anything that kills the Primary drive kills the mirror as well.

11bravo

I'm a bit confused. How is Macrium controlling the boot process? Isn't that windows? How did you get Macrium to be the boot loader?

Dave Flash Loc: South Jersey

TriX the link does work. Thanks for your advice. Adobe’s only solution was to upgrade to cloud based software.
I am back in business.

TriX Loc: Raleigh, NC

Honestly, I don’t know if it’s a batch file that loads before Windows or Windows begins to load and then the Macrium utility executes before it commences. It would be interesting to pull the C drive and see if the Macrium script appears or whether it goes directly to the 2nd copy of Windows.

profbowman Loc: Harrisonburg, VA, USA

If one has a bootable file, it will need to show up when the BIOS starts and somehow force the computer to go directly to it. Normally there is an order given in the BIOS on which drives it checks first, second and so on for a bootable file. --Richard

TriX Loc: Raleigh, NC

My guess is Macrium creates a boot loader file and renames the Windows boot loader so that BIOS/OS loads the Macrium file first when it looks on the boot drive for the Windows boot loader, but just a guess.

Joexx

You do not say what you mean by "my Lightroom organization". If you mean you need to reinstall Lightroom 6, but do not have the source, you probably cannot do that. But, if you mean you want to recover your old catalog or your original Lightroom settings or items like custom presets etc, than you can probably find them under Windows.old and look for \AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Lightroom\Develop Presets. Or something like that (do a google search for LR presets). Move the found files to your current location for your installed LR on the newly created Windows C:\.

Again, I am not really sure what you mean by "my Lightroom organization". If you are more specific, I mighe be able to help. Do not wait too long to recover your data though. I think Windows may delete the Windows.old directory after a specific amount of time (not sure).