Comments on: Hasleo Backup Suite Review – Part 2

By: John Durso

John Durso — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 00:44:20 +0000

In reply to Nascar.

Hi Nascar,

You would use the WinPE-based bootable media to boot to Windows, then restore.

John

By: Nascar

Nascar — Mon, 09 Sep 2024 17:18:55 +0000

E. g. your SSD/OS is broken, the backup of the OS is on an external HDD. Win will not start, of course. How do you restore the OS?

By: John Durso

John Durso — Sat, 21 Jan 2023 22:30:22 +0000

In reply to Reg Watson. Although I didn't specifically test this exact scenario, if I understand your question, then yes, I don't see why Hasleo could not do it. However, you are correct, if you somehow lost the ability of your PC to boot and you didn't think ahead and prepare an emergency boot disk and you didn't have another computer to create a boot disk, then you would be out of luck.

By: Reg Watson

Reg Watson — Sat, 21 Jan 2023 21:49:34 +0000

Thanks John for another very useful guide and for pointing out a couple of things to be wary of.
Just a query if I may – I think (hope) the answer will be yes but just to be sure !
If you had your Windows Drive along and all of it’s system partitions fail and you were restoring a previous Hasleo Full Windows system image to a brand new replacement Drive would Hasleo just re-create everything seamlessly on a new drive including those smaller hidden Windows system partitions – and would it matter at all if the new drive was larger or smaller (if smaller, assuming still enough space to accommodate the previous restored image) ?
I guess it would also be advisable to have prepared in advance for such an emergency and have created the Hasleo O/S previously to be ready and waiting on a USB drive as you would have lost the Windows Boot Menu option to choose to boot into Hasleo in order to commence the restore. If you didn’t have a second machine available to make a Hasleo USB bootable drive you could be temporarily stuck until you could get to one ?
Cheers and thanks
Reg