john1955
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Is there any downside to installing Macrium in Win-XP and doing disk backups and restores from there rather than backing up the active OS. Like using XP as Win PE to do Win-11 backups. Google says it’s OK but maybe not ideal (whatever that means)
The more often I boot Win-XP the faster it loads but there’s not much else to use XP for.
OS Windows XP, 7, 10 & 11
Computer type PC/Desktop
Manufacturer/Model Custom
CPU Intel i5 12400
Motherboard Gigabyte Z690 UA ATX DDR4
Memory Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB
Graphics Card(s) On Board (for now) and NVIDIA GeForc…
john1955
. . . Jack of all trades . . . master of one
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- #1
Is there any downside to installing Macrium in Win-XP and doing disk backups and restores from there rather than backing up the active OS. Like using XP as Win PE to do Win-11 backups. Google says it’s OK but maybe not ideal (whatever that means)
The more often I boot Win-XP the faster it loads but there’s not much else to use XP for.
OS Windows XP, 7, 10 & 11
Computer type PC/Desktop
Manufacturer/Model Custom
CPU Intel i5 12400
Motherboard Gigabyte Z690 UA ATX DDR4
Memory Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB
Graphics Card(s) On Board (for now) and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050
Sound Card ?
Monitor(s) Displays 43" Samsung tu7000
Screen Resolution 2560 x 1440
Hard Drives SAMSUNG 970 EVO Plus SSD 1TB NVMe M.2
PSU 500W
Case LIAN LANCOOL_205M
Cooling Bunch of fans . . . :o)
Keyboard Unicomp: Ultra Classic White Buckling Spring USB
Mouse M510
Internet Speed 50mbps
Browser Fire Fox
Antivirus Windows
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- #2
Would you setup your system to dual boot WinXP and Win11, and then reboot WinXP to run Macrium? Or how?
I don’t see the point. I just have Macrium run my Win10 and Win11 backups off hours, like starting at 3am or 5am. So the backups don’t interfere with my system use at all.
OS Win11 25H2
Computer type PC/Desktop
Manufacturer/Model Lenovo P520
CPU Intel XEON W-2245 8c/16t
Memory 128GB DDR4-2933 ECC
Graphics Card(s) Nvidia Quadro K4200
Sound Card Bultin
Monitor(s) Displays LCD 24in
Screen Resolution 1920x1200
Hard Drives 1TB SSD system, 16TB data 3.5in HDD, 16TB backup 3.5in HDD
PSU 900W
Cooling Air
Internet Speed 1Gb
Browser Firefox & Chrome
Antivirus MalwareBytes
Operating System Win11 23H2
Computer type Laptop
Manufacturer/Model Lenovo T530
CPU Intel Core i7-3520m
Memory 16GB
Graphics card(s) integrated CPU graphics
Hard Drives 1TB SSD
Internet Speed 1Gb
Browser Fiefox & Chrome
Antivirus Malwarebytes
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- #3
Downside is when running from either XP or 11, they both do not have options such as "Fix the Windows Boot problems", Windows Deploynent
OS Windows 11 Pro 25H2, Linux Mint 21.3
Computer type PC/Desktop
Manufacturer/Model Self Build Feb.2024
CPU Intel Core i9-14900K @5.8GHZ
Motherboard MSI MAG Z790 Tomahawk Max WiFi 7
Memory 64GB (2XG Skill F5-6400J3239G32G) @6800
Graphics Card(s) Radeon (TM) RX 480 Graphics (8 GB)
Sound Card Intergrated Realtek
Monitor(s) Displays Samsung
Screen Resolution 3840x2160
Hard Drives 1 - Crucial 705 1TB GEN5 1 - Crucial 705 2TB GEN5 2 - Crucial T500 2TB Gen4
PSU 750W EVGA-G3
Case Antec NX410
Cooling H2O Thermalright
Keyboard Logitech K800
Mouse Logitech Master 2S
Internet Speed 100 Mbps
Browser Chrome
Antivirus WD
Operating System Windows 11 Pro & Linux Mint X64
Computer type PC/Desktop
Manufacturer/Model MSI Z77 MPower (MS-7751)
CPU Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3770K CPU @ 4.20 GHz
Motherboard Z77 MPower (MS-7751)
Memory 32.0GB Dual-Channel CMY16GX3M2A1600C9
Graphics card(s) NVIDIA GeForce GT 740
Monitor(s) Displays 40" Samsung
Screen Resolution 1920X1080
Hard Drives WIN10 - 111GB Samsung SSD 840 Series WIN11 - 223GB Crucial CT240BX500SSD 2X931GB Crucial CT1000BX500SSD1
PSU Antec 850W
Case Antec 900
Cooling H20
Keyboard Logitech K800 Wireless
Mouse Logitech MX Master 2S
Internet Speed 100 Mbps
Browser Chrome
Antivirus Windows Defender
john1955
. . . Jack of all trades . . . master of one
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I already have XP as a boot option and was only going to use it for total disk imaging not incremental or differential backups. I only do manual backups and use AOMI bachupper for email and documents etc
OS Windows XP, 7, 10 & 11
Computer type PC/Desktop
Manufacturer/Model Custom
CPU Intel i5 12400
Motherboard Gigabyte Z690 UA ATX DDR4
Memory Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB
Graphics Card(s) On Board (for now) and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050
Sound Card ?
Monitor(s) Displays 43" Samsung tu7000
Screen Resolution 2560 x 1440
Hard Drives SAMSUNG 970 EVO Plus SSD 1TB NVMe M.2
PSU 500W
Case LIAN LANCOOL_205M
Cooling Bunch of fans . . . :o)
Keyboard Unicomp: Ultra Classic White Buckling Spring USB
Mouse M510
Internet Speed 50mbps
Browser Fire Fox
Antivirus Windows
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- #5
I already have XP as a boot option and was only going to use it for total disk imaging not incremental or differential backups. I only do manual backups and use AOMI bachupper for email and documents etc
Why not just create a 2MB partition on one of Data disks, Copy everything from USB to this patition then whenever needed, boot it from Boot Menu. This way Macrium will boot much faster than from USB. As shown below. I can boot Linux and 3 different Winpe’s: WinXpe, Windows Installation and Macrium from Boot Menu because I never use dual boot.
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OS Windows 11 Pro 25H2, Linux Mint 21.3
Computer type PC/Desktop
Manufacturer/Model Self Build Feb.2024
CPU Intel Core i9-14900K @5.8GHZ
Motherboard MSI MAG Z790 Tomahawk Max WiFi 7
Memory 64GB (2XG Skill F5-6400J3239G32G) @6800
Graphics Card(s) Radeon (TM) RX 480 Graphics (8 GB)
Sound Card Intergrated Realtek
Monitor(s) Displays Samsung
Screen Resolution 3840x2160
Hard Drives 1 - Crucial 705 1TB GEN5 1 - Crucial 705 2TB GEN5 2 - Crucial T500 2TB Gen4
PSU 750W EVGA-G3
Case Antec NX410
Cooling H2O Thermalright
Keyboard Logitech K800
Mouse Logitech Master 2S
Internet Speed 100 Mbps
Browser Chrome
Antivirus WD
Operating System Windows 11 Pro & Linux Mint X64
Computer type PC/Desktop
Manufacturer/Model MSI Z77 MPower (MS-7751)
CPU Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3770K CPU @ 4.20 GHz
Motherboard Z77 MPower (MS-7751)
Memory 32.0GB Dual-Channel CMY16GX3M2A1600C9
Graphics card(s) NVIDIA GeForce GT 740
Monitor(s) Displays 40" Samsung
Screen Resolution 1920X1080
Hard Drives WIN10 - 111GB Samsung SSD 840 Series WIN11 - 223GB Crucial CT240BX500SSD 2X931GB Crucial CT1000BX500SSD1
PSU Antec 850W
Case Antec 900
Cooling H20
Keyboard Logitech K800 Wireless
Mouse Logitech MX Master 2S
Internet Speed 100 Mbps
Browser Chrome
Antivirus Windows Defender
john1955
. . . Jack of all trades . . . master of one
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- #6
Downside is when running from either XP or 11, they both do not have options such as "Fix the Windows Boot problems", Windows Deploynent
That would be on the rescue media which is on a bootable thumb drive which Ive never needed to use.
OS Windows XP, 7, 10 & 11
Computer type PC/Desktop
Manufacturer/Model Custom
CPU Intel i5 12400
Motherboard Gigabyte Z690 UA ATX DDR4
Memory Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB
Graphics Card(s) On Board (for now) and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050
Sound Card ?
Monitor(s) Displays 43" Samsung tu7000
Screen Resolution 2560 x 1440
Hard Drives SAMSUNG 970 EVO Plus SSD 1TB NVMe M.2
PSU 500W
Case LIAN LANCOOL_205M
Cooling Bunch of fans . . . :o)
Keyboard Unicomp: Ultra Classic White Buckling Spring USB
Mouse M510
Internet Speed 50mbps
Browser Fire Fox
Antivirus Windows