It is the other backup drives that won’t work.Would that glitch in Macrium yesterday have cause issues on that drive? Doesn’t explain the others… Guess I’ll see if I can figure it out, but right now, I can’t even get to the Macrium backup to restore the laptop if I needed to.ĭoes that sound like a symptom of a failing drive as well? It all worked fine before I tried to make the Macrium backup yesterday.ĮTA – spoke too quickly – my Pioneer 250GB external USB SSD is recognized now when connected to the laptop. It isn’t the ports as they work with the thumb drives, and the dongle for my wireless mouse is working in its USB port as well. So – to start any type of manual backup, I guess I’m going to need to use a couple of thumb drives till I can figure out this external drive issue.

But, when I connect them to my Win 10 laptop, all is fine – they are visible and accessible. I restarted the laptop and it is the same – thumb drives are recognized, backup drives aren’t.

Thumb drives do – but I have tried that Seagate and two other backup drives in both available ports – one 3.0, one 2.0 – and none are recognized. I believe it has some tools included, but the new issue right now is that none of my backup external HDDs seem to work in my USB ports. The drive I use is an external Seagate Backup Plus, 2TB. Is there any way around this to get Marcrium to run? Would a newer version possibly help? Mine is Macrium Reflect v. My question – how long might such a process take, and should I go ahead and schedule it to run when I reboot? This laptop takes a LONG time to reboot and there are always a lot of things that run – like TrustedInstaller – that seem to go on forever, so I don’t want to create a worse situation as far as a reboot taking hours to complete. I did try running chkdsk C: /r but the message was that the volume was in use and to schedule that to run on reboot. I am not sure what that means – but a search for that error did say that chkdsk might “fix” it. I did create a System Restore, but every time I run Macrium, I get the following error message: MFT corrupt – Error code = 6. I have been having a series of weird issues with the laptop itself – random freezes, needing to reboot, etc over the past few weeks, and so far, I can’t isolate the cause of that behavior.Īfter I had uninstalled the Lenovo Solution Center (after reading that it was a possible security issue) – it started running better, and so I decided I needed to make a backup while it was in a good state. I am running the free version of Macrium Reflect 7 on my old Win 7 Thinkpad.

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