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Quote: And you get the "clean" version of the Windows PE... how?
Macrium Reflect and probably AOMEI will create bootable rescue media for you, that will boot the Windows PE operating system. This operating system is necessary to restore previous images. It's a tiny OS, just a few hundred MegaByte, so it fits comfortably on a CD, but you can also flash it onto a USB stick, that will be bootable. I prefer doing it on a CD, then I know it can never be corrupted by a virus, however small that likelihood is.
Macrium also allows you to base the PE system on the kernels of different versions of Windows. You just check the kernel version box for your system.
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modified 5-Feb-17 13:59pm.
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But then... do you need to install the software in every computer before? or is it like Hiren's Bott CD, that you can (or could, I tested the HBCD as well and sadly didn't work any better) use it everywhere?
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You need to install the software on every computer that you want to image.
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That's what I like from Ghost, you don't need to have it installed. You do everything from the boot cd.
But... it is not working anymore, so I will have to change the method.
thanks for the conversation 
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Quote: thanks for the conversation
You're welcome!
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I vote for Clonezilla. Ugly interface but works every time. Make sure you use the latest version. Free.
I only run Windows in a virtual machine, easy to backup, just copy the files to the NAS.
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theoldfool wrote: I only run Windows in a virtual machine, easy to backup, just copy the files to the NAS.
That's been my strategy for years now--I use VMs a lot, and don't have any software running on the host OS at all, except for motherboard drivers. It's fast enough to reinstall Windows from scratch nowadays, and cumulative updates are now refreshed every month, so I don't bother backing up the host OS.
With that out of the way, backing up entire VMs is just a matter of copying a few select files (or just the VHD when it comes down to it). Migrating them from machine to machine is also trivial.
That means you're also not dealing with proprietary backup software file formats, and don't have to worry about partitioning and all that crap.
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If the tool can't deal with EPT, then the backup won't run through anyway. You need a newer tool. There's a great one from a German IT magazine, but I can't find anything English on that.
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You can give me the link to german info. I live near Munich
Thank you in advance
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modified 6-Feb-17 11:58am.
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Danke sehr
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I just use the built in Backup and Restore (Windows 7) to create system image backups. This is the windows 7 tool that they have left in place for the time being. The images are vhd as well so you should be able to mount them if you need to access a particular file. There are probably some limitations compared to a paid product like Acronis, but it works fine for me.
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I don't have any problem in Win7, the issue has come with new Laptop and Win10
Thanks anyways 
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I am talking about windows 10. They have left the old windows 7 tool in windows 10.
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Ahhhh... sorry, I didn't understand it that way
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.. the unemployment (employment?) website in France www.pole-emploi.fr.
You get an account as an employer to manage your "employees" - we are talking about the nanny of my children here - and they send you a password and identifier by snail mail for your first connexion. And .... *drum roll*
The password does not match the password rules (no special char where one is required, password is too short, etc...) !!!!  
So it gets rejected when you try to connect. OK, let's recover another password using the "recover lost password" : They send you another password over email. Which has the correct length. But still no special char... So I gotta call them on Monday to get my access, which means I need to stay at home because I cannot call them from Germany where I work - it's a special phone number, not working abroad. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA.
Who on Earth performs syntax checks on password at login time ? Who sends out passwords to users that do not match their own password rules ?! WTF ??? 
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And WTF sends passwords in snail mail?
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*cough* This is why you use ASP.NET MVC and lazy evaluation (jQuery Validate) or filters *cough* Or whatever you prefer, I've taken a liking to this as of late. Sounds like a terrible situation, best of luck!
modified 4-Feb-17 13:19pm.
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Jon McKee wrote: ASP.NET MVC and lazy evaluation
is no answer to abject incompetence and idiocy on the part of the developer of the site.
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Very true! Re-reading that I misread part of it. They seem to have some form of validation, just not for their own self-created tokens
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Um ... When TalkTalk bought Tiscali, they inherited a lot of customers, and correctly imported their accounts, including passwords.
But ... the Tiscali passwords were not checked for length, special characters, or anything else, so one old(ish) lady I support had her connection and email password set to something she could remember: "pepsi" - the name of her late cat.
But TalkTalk does check passwords - so when she bought a new machine and tried to set it up, she couldn't enter her password to configure anything. (The old one was hashed and the hash stored, so it "just worked")
OK, no problem, we'll change the password. TalkTalk checks password security - particularly when it comes to changing them, and won't accept a five character password as the "existing password" so you can't change it either ...
Welcome to the nightmare of explaining why she can't log in, or change her password to tech support people working from a script. 
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OriginalGriff wrote: Welcome to the nightmare of explaining why she can't log in
Very easy to explain; the company that provided the key (point to real key) is incapable of buying keys that fit their own locks. Some good advice - don't store anything of value there.
And no, I don't understand the mechanic either when he/she is talking technically about cars.
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Rage wrote: France
Ah.
I think I've identified the root cause.
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Black Sabbath plays final show ever tonight[^]
And given what Ozzie has ... uh ... "consumed" over the years I'm gobsmacked he is alive!
OT: Saw him on a TV series last year - Ozzy & Jack's World Detour - and apart from some understandable age and drug abuse related problems, he is doing pretty damn well!
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