From: nospam@needed.invalid   
      
   On Fri, 4/25/2025 8:33 AM, bad sector wrote:   
      
   > That thick brown morass just keeps getting deeper and deeper...   
   >   
   > Were it not that the circumstances make this chore important to me I would   
   long ago have tossed the whole thing out into the dump bin; that, alas, is not   
   the case.   
   >   
   > So I caved in and bought Macrium (all-in-all close to $100cad) ......but   
   can't even install it because the only window that boots is w7 but it doesn't   
   have sha-2 and w10 is the one I want to salvage because it doesn't boot.   
   Anyway, to get sha-2 I had    
   to do another update but then the sha-2 update bombed on reboot and keeps   
   reverting to 'uninstalled'. Still I managed to INITIATE a Macrium install   
   before rebooting but could never complete it. It never ends for crissssake!   
   >   
   > Things have changed. This rentalware gets licensed to ONE computer so I   
   think I will re-install a w-10 freshie this evening on my Ryzen box and take   
   it from there beginning with making a rescue-CD.   
   >   
      
   Unless they removed it, the link I gave you was for a free version   
   of Macrium. You didn't have to buy it. For example, if you had   
   a Win7 32-bit as your daily driver OS, you could install the   
   second link here if you wanted. The filename is reflect-setup-FREE...   
      
   The three artwork links, correspond to the usage of this software.   
      
      https://download.macrium.com/reflect/v7/v7.3.6284/reflect_setup_free_x64.exe   
      
      Name: reflect_setup_free_x64.exe   
      Size: 115,719,576 bytes (110 MiB)   
      SHA1: B6724C7B6F5AF146406FAAA78F845A6C281D67D8   
      
      There is also a 32-bit one. For 32-bit setups.   
      
      https://download.macrium.com/reflect/v7/v7.3.6284/reflect_setup_free_x86.exe   
      
   Use the three artwork links, for details as to how to fill out the dialogs.   
      
   The 64-bit one, and Rufus, should be able to make a UEFI boot   
   stick. The 32-bit one looks a bit more of an issue that way.   
      
      Paul   
      
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