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However the 7-zip program can extract all the components from the. exe file as I hadn't loaded windows - all I had was Macrium (stand alone) and the windows image. exe program as a driver (name on my system was cp024079.exe - HP Raid controller). exe file and needed to load it into my Windows recovery image - the Macrium program couldn't recognize the. What are you talking about? You want to share 7-zip or something?Hi there It is how Windows exports and import drivers. If the internal device is OK then Macrium restore should be able to see it without problem and restore from the image.It isn't exactly classic. Note just taking a system image is no good for a Windows system that you want to boot and run entirely from the external device. If this still fails then you can make a Windows to Go system if you really need to run Windows from an external USB device.Īnother option - a bit more comples though is to use any Linux distro -these boot from external devices and install a Windows VM on the Linux Host.įailing those options if the HDD is broken / defective on the internal computer replacement is the only option. If boot fails simply use the "repair boot option" from the bootable recovery macrium media and select the usb installation as the windows boot to repair. Sometimes though if you are lucky a USB drive connected via a USB ->SATA connector will "poodlefake" Windows into thinking it's running off an internal drive and will boot and run.Īsmtmedia or Sabrent adapters tend to work In general Windows can't run from an externally connected USB drive - so the only way is to replace the old drive with a new one. Perhaps in the future I might create disk images on an external portable hard drive since it looks like USB Macrium boot can restore from those. I wrote macrium technical support just to see if they had an answer. Tried to drag and drop like in pgm but no such function.

The only source that it gave me was the bad hard drive and would not allow me to designate the USB connected hard drive as the source and clone it. I booted with the USB macrium media (I created) and found that I could not change the source and destination hard drives like I could in the windows installed Macrium program.

It could boot but was somewhat non responsive even in safe mode.

Well I had a failure the other day in the laptop hard drive. I use it to clone my laptop hard drive to a spare hard drive connected via USB in case laptop hard drive fail. Am using Macrium personal free version I find it a great product.