@RustyRail - unless you need more than 4 PRIMARY partitions on your System, there is no need to pre-format your 2tB disk with GPT. Just blow it away and have it be an MBR disk fully unallocated. The restore operation will take care of formatting and locating partitions. Your image should contain all the partitions that were on the original disk, not just Recovery and OS. Many early MBR-Legacy Windows 7 builds did not have a small MSR partition (Microsoft System Reserved), if you don't have it, it's fine. My suggestion would be to take this process in steps. Start with a blank 2tB NvME (it should be a basic MBR disk at that point, not GPT) and restore your complete existing 512gB image to that disk. During the restore process, Hasleo offers you a screen at which point you may expand your existing OS from the smalled partition in the original disk to a larger partition, if you'd like. At this step, once your partition geometry is as you'd like it, move on 'til the restoration is complete. Shut down the System and swap the 2tB with the existing NvME and it should BOOT just fine as your original System... get that running first. Changing it to UEFI is a whole different ballgame and requires some hairy steps in the process... I would never try and do both in the same process. Let's get your basic System running on the bigger disk first.
@beethoven - I haven't seen any specific instructions in their Release Notes that have ever asked for that, BUT... if you want the latest version of Hasleo (and what it's fixed) on that recovery media, you'll need to do it. The update process itself removes the WinPE it created when you created your Emergency Disk, and I believe if you use the BOOT menu, it will tell you that needs to be recreated when you run it after updating. I just look at the release notes and if the fixes affect either the imaging or recovery modes, I do an update. If the new update requires a large download once again, Hasleo has a simple FREE Tool which gets you a copy of the latest Microsoft WinPE which can be used for both W10 & W11 and make it resident on your System. If you need to rebuild the recovery/BOOT menu media, you can ask for the download at that point in the process and the next screen asks either for the download or a local copy of the WinPE. You can point to the local WinPE (*.OPE) and the building process does not need the download anymore. I keep a copy of that latest release on my System and use it for all my Hasleo media building... saves a ton of downloading.
@TheRollbackFrog How to add a text comment to a backup being created? I've seen the option "Allow comments when manually executing the backup task", but I don't understand how it works. Or should I create a backup task and manually run it? When booting into the recovery environment, how can I launch any custom portable program, because there is no file manager?
Where is the boot.wim from which the recovery environment integrated into the Windows boot menu is booted? Wanted to remove some drivers. winpe.iso in this path C:\Program Files\Hasleo\Hasleo Backup Suite\bin\ has nothing to do with this booting.
@aldist - When you have that backup option set, whenever you start a manual backup process (any type), the next window will offer you a comment field to fill out.
@aldist - the built WIM for the BOOT menu resides in c:\boot. The <ID#>.WIM is the actual Hasleo built WIM and, I believe, the "winpe_10_64" folder contains the bare WIM before Hasleo installs its software (just a guess without looking deeper). A portable version can be produced without too much trouble if that's what you're interested in doing. It will be a FileSet to included on any WinPE with a FileMgr.
@TheRollbackFrog - Thank, super, I located this wim I don't need the Hasleo portable, after booting into the Hasleo recovery environment I want to run my portable applications located on the flash drive, like NotePad2 or Explorer++.
More complicated or less intuitive seem the same thing. No, simply I said that I don't like the GUI from an aesthetic, visual point of view. But I said also that it's not very important.
To disable networking when booting from WinPE, you need to delete two folders with network drivers (built-in network adapter and PCI-e network adapter) from C:\Boot\your_36-character_ID.WIM. When WIM mounted, this two folders located in ...\Windows\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository\
The default backup name is presented in such a long convoluted form that it is difficult to navigate: System Backup 20240322092911_20240322_Full_V1_1.DBI It seems like the default name should have looked like this: System Backup 2024-03-22_09-29-11_2024-03-22_Full_V1_1.DBI I didn't understand the purpose of duplicating the date at the end (red). If it has no sacred meaning, the name would look like this: System Backup 2024-03-22_09-29-11_Full_V1_1_1.DBI If this seems rational to you, please add it to the wishes on the official forum.
Protection is enabled in OSArmor. When clicking the Tools button in Hasleo, HBS hangs indefinitely (no access to BCDEdit), HBS can be closed only by killing BackupMainUI.exe process. Perhaps there should be an Cancel button.
I have installed the latest version, and created an initial full backup of 58 GB to a USB hard drive, yesterday evening. This evening I had updated Windows Updates, i.e. (KB5035845) which is the latest Cumulative Update. I have just run a Differential backup, just a short time ago which was successful. This will now have the successful Windows Update included in the differential. Should I have done an incremental instead?
If it's your 2nd image in the chain, it makes no difference... a differential would be the same size as an incremental. As your image chain gets longer, incrementals are more efficient as far as storage space is concerned.
OK.... I have yet to test the restore function, so how would I select which to restore, i.e. the initial full system backup, or the differential?
And then select the path to a full backup (if you want restore without KB5035845) or a differential backup (if you want restore with KB5035845).
There are various ways to do this through the UI. You select the time point of your backup chain that you want your System restored to. When you start the restore operation, the 1st window that appears shows you the selected time point with its date and backup type. If you continue, that's the System state you will restore. To the right of that image date/time is a "Change version" LINK... this will allow you to select a different time point in your image chain that you'd like to restore to. Once you've selected your time point, lower in the window you need to select which disk/partition(s) you'd like to restore... this will be different depending on what type of image you have made (System Backup vs Disk/Partition Backup. A complete User's Guide is available online HERE (select the User's Guide TAB) if you need additional information.
Thanks...Probably, the differential is the best option for a first restore. BTW, I am posting this from my laptop that doesn't have Hasleo backup installed. That has Terabyte, instead.
Yes, I have already found that guide, and started reading, [late] last night. The information you have provided gives me food for thought. Will look into it later, today. Just had my first sleep interruption of the night. Will have two more before the night is out.
Is there any difference in function between the clone feature in Hasleo backup Suite and their separate Disk Clone app that they offer?
@Adric - after reviewing the User's Guide for Hasleo Disk Clone, it appears the cloning function in the Hasleo Backup Suite is exactly the same. Since the cloning tool came way before they even started the Backup Suite, I'm guessing they just decided to include it... after all, it is a Suite. (of tools).
Great input @TheRollbackFrog. I got the transfer/restore done ( it went without a single hitch ). Thank you! I'm working through the UEFI conversion docs.
I'm thinking about giving this a go, but not planning on ditching the free version of MR just yet. Any advice for a new install? Can you create bootable UFDs similar to MR? If so, can I use the same UFD for both MBR BIOS and UEFI machines? It's a rather long thread to read through. Thanks.
