I lost power at my house today.  When the power came back on, my computer wouldn't boot.  It would POST, but Windows would not boot.  I narrowed this down to a problem with the MBR.

I booted to the HBS ERD (emergency recovery drive) and chose the option to Rebuild MBR.  It told me to "select the disk to rebuild MBR" but there was only one option in the drop down, and it was for the X: drive, which is one related to the USB drive I booted the HBS recovery environment from.  I opened the OS command line interface through HBS ERD and verified that the drive/partition my Windows system is installed on was recognized, and it was.

I booted the ERD of a competing product and rebuilt the MBR using that software.  It worked fine.

I should mention that I did boot the HBS ERD using an ISO image on Ventoy.  I'm not sure if that makes a difference.  But, I booted the ERD for the other product using Ventoy as well and it worked fine.

Had I not had access to the tools of the competing software package this process would have been far more difficult, especially because I only have the one computer now.  I feel kind of let down!

I used Hasleo WinToUsb for Windows 11 to create numerous Windows installations on a portable SSD. They operate smoothly on my machine (Windows 11). I also have a not-so-old custom built that won't run W11 (now running W10 on internal), but the portable works great there as well. Both machines were specially built.

I wanted to use the portable W11 on a friend's computer, but none of his three (all W10) would boot up with it. Disk Management displayed the portable, but File Explorer did not.

These three of his PCs are ancient, lack TPM, and cannot install Windows. All are custom-built.

I asked Hasleo for guidance, and they told the WtG is offline by default when it runs for the first time. If that's the case, why do all of the WtGs I've created run fine on my two computers?

I read about including drivers in the WtG and asked Hasleo about it. They omitted that when responding. I wouldn't know which drivers to include or how to incorporate them.

Any suggestions? I'm not sure what his PC specs are.

Hi everyone,
I’m having a small issue with my EFI partition and could use some help.

Recently my system stopped booting properly. I checked the EFI partition and it seems something might be corrupted. I tried using EasyUEFI to repair the boot entries, but after rebooting, Windows still doesn’t start normally.

I’ve tried:

Checking the boot files in the EFI partition

Recreating the boot entry with EasyUEFI

Running bootrec /fixboot and bootrec /scanos

But the problem is still there.

If anyone has experience fixing EFI issues or knows another tool that might help, I’d appreciate the suggestions.
Thanks!

I have been testing a 2025 junk cleaning software program.  I suspect it may have targeted my Hasleo Backup Logs.  It most certainly did nuke my MR8 and ETBH logs. 

I can see the Backup Date Logs header for the two full HBSP backup jobs I have run to date, but neither has any data.  There appears to be no way for me to delete the headers from the dropdown list ...  I would like to delete those headers, since there is nothing there.  In the interim, I have adjusted that junk file cleaner to stay away from the Hasleo ... \bin\logs folder, as well as to ignore MR8 and ETBH.

Interestingly, the log of my WIM creation of a recovery drive when I first installed HBSP does contain data ... ?

Any assistance would be appreciated.  Have a great day.

Regards,
Phil

Brand new feature of Windows 11 in their DEV and BETA channels called Point-in-Time Restore...

Finally, after that miserable failure during Windows 7... MicroSloth decides to take on imaging (although limited) once again. Do I expect them to be reasonably good at this... maybe. Imaging applications have been doing this wonderfully for over 10+ years now... I think the method is well understood.

Will it affect existing imaging application's marketing positions... not sure. People who currently DO NOT IMAGE their machines will be very interested (and there are many of them)... especially if it's easy.

Seems nothing more than a full throttled SYSTEM RESTORE with scheduled IntraDaily options and a few days of total RollBack capability.

We'll see, I guess...

As per title. I have just changed one of my Linux partitions to CachyOS which has defaulted to btrfs. I have a backup set to backup two Linux partitions and their boot partitions and have set to backup sector by sector. Will the btrfs partition successfully restore?

Hi everyone,
I’m new here and have a quick question. After formatting a device, I see three options—Legacy, VHD, and VHDX. What do these choices mean?
Thanks in advance for any clarification!

Purchased a pro license, I saw the following text when hovering over the question mark next to the email input-field:
"By filling in your personal data you agree that 2Checkout, its affiliates and partners can use it for order related communications"

What does that mean?
1. When issues might happen regarding the purchase then: 2Checkout will contact you through the email address provided?
2. You purchased a backup tool license: 2Checkout or our affiliates/partners can send you offers regarding other software?

This is probably a 2Checkout related issue, but is the info provided safe from spam related things?

Can I assume you had never issues around this with other users?

Sorry to ask this but that line could go both ways.