Boot the VM from the recovery media and restore the image to its virtual drive(s). Configure a new VM to boot from an ISO of the recovery media for you backup software, both Macrium and Shadowmaker have an ISO as one of the options in their media builder. Whether you use Hyper-V or VMWare, the principle is the same. I restored its Macrium image to a VM and have been running it for about a month now as a 2004 VM. I have restored Macrium images to a Hyper-V VM, most recently to test upgrading my main machine to the release preview version of the up-coming Feature Update to version 2004. Then why not restore to a virtual machine? If you have Windows 10 Pro then you have Hyper-V available, if you have Home then you could use VMWare. On the other hand, not many have a spare drive lying around, or the time and/or skills to install it. When done testing, put the original back and it will carry on as if nothing had happened. If you have a spare empty drive you could swap out your original, put in the spare, then restore to that. However, that doesn't necessarily have to be by overwriting the original drive. If I recover the image to my main drive and something goes wrong I will lose the entire contents of my "C" drive and external drive which would leave me no data! What is a safe method to test the image? I am using windows 2.778There is no substitute for doing a full restore as a test. I am using MiniTool ShadowMaker and want to test the backup image of my main "C" drive including "System" files stored on my external dirve.
Only that the image is good, as far as the verification is correct. VERIFY image is a good first step, but does not indicate that restore of the image is possible.
Restore System Image from External Hard Drive in Windows 10/8/7Īs explained by my colleague, on his post The points I have covered regarding recovery are also explained on the minitool link here Shift and restart if you can get to lock screen That said on 10 you can get a boot of course from recovery options, forced boot on three failed attempts with power button I see that Minitool also offers a boot from WinPE On many image creating softwares, the image must be on the root of the external drive, if you put it in a folder, on the drive it will not be seen by the recovery. I have also made a Macrium recovery method. I previously used Easeus, but prefer Macrium. Remember also that if you cannot get into windows, you need a way of booting to recover the image This is one of the easiest to understand articles on what tests you can conduct without going to the full measure There is no easy way to test, without as you say the ultimate test, which as you so correctly say - if it goes pears shaped ?
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