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Well I suppose I could find out how to fix that but actually Windows to Go isn't really what I'm after, but rather a comprehensive graphical rescue environment to be able to poke around and fix stuff if needed.

(Although I don't use an MS account for that either, but anyway solved it by unplugging the ethernet cable, at which point it let me create a local account.).Īll ok on that front but first thing I notice when its up and running is that my PCs disk isn't there and on checking in Disk Management it said something along the lines of the drive being offline by group policy.

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I gave that a try (twice, note to self: PC doesn't see drives with 'MBR for BIOS', use 'GPT for UEFI' instead), rather nervously when the Windows setup seemed to be insistent on wanting a Microsoft account, as I was worried about it potentially buggering up the activation for my PC.

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Infrasonic wrote:AFAIK it is possible to run W10 persistently from a USB/Thunderbolt drive via third party software like Win to USB/ Rufus, even though Windows to Go is no longer supported by MS. The USB drive currently has a single NTFS partition, which I could shrink, but whatever I end up with has to have the partition the NAS will be copying to first.

Additional partitions are not recognized.

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There may be a gotcha in that the NAS manual says, only the first partition of a connected USB drive is mounted.

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So, presumably I create ISOs and put them, somehow, on the USB drive, but what's the ins and outs and hows of that? I'd also presumably need to be able to choose between the desktop ISO and laptop ISO in order the get the right drivers for each? And could I also put windows itself on the USB drive, to be able to boot that too? Of course, I have Macrium rescue media (CDs) for both PCs and have, indeed, successfully restored backups from the NAS before, using the CD, when the drive on my laptop needed replacing (twice in fact), and I could use those CDs in conjunction with the USB drive.īut if possible I'd like to also set up the USB drive to be a bootable device, booting the Macrium rescue media, so I could just boot and restore directly from the USB drive. So, the USB drive will contain copies of those backups. The main purpose of the NAS itself is for where the Macrium backups of my W10Pro desktop and W10Home laptop go. If you would like for me to post this as a new thread, I'm happy to do so.My NAS has the ability to make copies of the NAS to a connected USB drive, on an automated schedule, of which I've just brought one for the purpose. I looked in the Drivers folder, but there is nothing there that seems like something to click, but as you can tell, I'm somewhat naive regarding this process!Īny help would be greatly appreciated. I am guessing when I think that perhaps the Boot folder would be a good place to start. So, the files listed are:įour folders: boot, Drivers efi and sources I made a screen shot of the drive's contents, but I am unable to paste it into this post. Macrium recommends testing the boot drive to make sure it works, but it is not apparent to me how to do that. I jumped through a few hoops to create the disk including using diskpart to reconfigure the USB drive. Is anyone still watching this thread? Many months later, I myself have just successfully created a Macrium rescue bootable USB drive in preparation for updating my Windows 7 computer to Windows 10. Obviously this is user error and ignorance on my part as, while I have always religiously created file and folder backups using a variety of different software, I have never made a recovery disk.Ĭould someone guide me through the steps to boot from a recovery USB so I can identify the gap in my procedure? I can see content on the flash drive, but honestly do not know if something is missing or not. I've tried this several times, but get the same message. However, when I turn on the machine, go into the boot menu and select that USB 2.0 (with the flash drive inserted), I get a message something like 'operating system missing'. To test the recovery USB I then tried changed my boot priority to what I see as option USB 2.0, pushing that to #1. I went through the Macrium Rescue Media Wizard and let the wizard walk me through creating a recovery USB flash drive which seemed to have been created with no errors. Since this is a trial, I was hoping someone with Macrium experience here might be able to help. I can't post this in the Macrium forum because you have to be a paying customer first.

All, I am trialing Macrium Reflect 6 and have a questions about the use of a recovery USB created using Macrium Reflect.

How big does a macrium reflect rescue media usb need to be