v5: How to recover your PC using the Linux Rescue CD

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1 The Linux CD is a compact and efficient rescue environment to restore all Windows operating systems. It will only enable your to restore your imaged partitions to exactly the same size and position as they were at the time the image was created. If you require more flexible imaging and restore options or your hardware is not supported then use the Windows PE rescue environment. Note, RAID systems and disks attached via USB3 interfaces are not supported in this rescue environment. It operates as a wizard, guiding you through locating an image, selecting what to restore and where to restore it to. Image location First a Macrium image file must be located. 1.

2 Navigate to the folder that contains the image to be restored in the left hand pane. Possible locations are network attached disks, CDs or DVDs, internal hard disks or those attached via USB or esata The backup list shows all backup images in the selected folder and the pane below shows the partitions included in the image. Highlight particular backup image that you want to restore, the contents of which will be revealed in the lower right pane. If you have an incremental/differential set, chose the last image in the set, unless you wish to restore to an earlier point in time. In the case that your images are multi-part images typical for images stored on a FAT formatted device such as a USB hard disk or on CD/DVD recordable media, locate the last image in the set. Note that the drive letters presented in the left pane may be different from those that Windows uses. If you wish to eject a CD, double click on the CD icon. If your image resides on a network attached disk, your network interface will require configuration. Normally this will be automatic. However, if your are having difficult creating a map to a network share, you can use the network settings button to confirm that the network is detected and configured correctly.

3 Select a network adaptor from the list and view or change the IP address and network parameters if incorrect. Note: if there are no adaptors listed, then the Linux rescue disk does have support for your network adaptor. In this case, consider a windows PE rescue disk. The "Set" button applies any configuration changes, and "Get address" attempts to acquires a new address via DHCP. This will have been attempted at boot time, but may need to be invoked manually, for example where a network lead was not connected at boot time. The Linux CD supports restoration from network attached storage such as a shared folder on another computer or network attached disk. Network browsing is not implemented, so you need to know the network name or IP address of the computer or NAS device that you wish to connect to. Once you have located the image, you can proceed to next page.

4 Partition selection You are now prompted to chose which disk to restore using the drop down list and then which partitions to restore. By default all partitions included in the image will be selected. Image files can contain images of multiple disks, each containing one or more partitions. Note, you can only restore one disk at a time; you can restart the wizard once the restore has completed, should you wish to restore multiple disks. Once, you have chosen what you wish to restore, you can proceed to the next page. Target disk selection You are presented with a list of disks attached to your system, excluding the one containing the image file. Select the disk you wish to restore your image to. If the source image file

5 resides on a locally attached disk, this disk will be omitted from the list. If the selected image is from a disk attached Note that any partitions existing on this disk that overlap the partition(s) you are restoring will be lost. Restore You are presented with a summary of the restore operation that you have configured.

6 The verify option, will confirm that the image file has suffered no corruption since it was created. As this reads and confirms every byte in the file, it can take as long as the restore itself. Without this step, if any errors are encountered, you will receive a warning with the option to stop or continue with the restore. If you are happy to proceed, click Restore. In the case that you have selected a multi-part image on a different disk such as a CD or DVD, you will be prompted to insert the disk containing the first and then subsequent image files as they are required. Search terms tag:restore tag:image Macrium KB