Paragon Hard Disk Manage 15 Suite (Recovery Media Builder)
January 26th, 2020
ADK/WAIK
or
advanced
I select ADK/WAIK, then the usb mass storage device, next the gui dialogue asks for the explorer path to the WAIK/ADK installation.
using windows 8.1
I select the default path= please specify where to find waik/adk path does not seem valid
I manullay navigate to various folders in Windows Kits/8.1= please specify where to find waik/adk path does not seem valid
I Dowlnload the effing thing, navigate to said effing thing= please specify where to find waik/adk path does not seem valid
what’s up with that?
A side issue: with the Paragon Hard Disk Manager 15 Professional 10.1.25.710 WinPE 8.1, the gui does not display all usb mass storage device and then whines about HAL Drivers, which i can find very little information on. what is that about?
What do you want to do? I use their free Rescue Kit 14, no problem at all with creating the usb media, haven’t used it with a 8/8.1 machine but they claim it fully suipports it, I highly recommend it. Get it from them and d/l the manual first to see if it has the function you are looking for. I highly recommend it (btw it provides you 2 environment options, a dos one and a linux one).
http://www.paragon-software.com/home/rk-free/ If you don’t want to give an email, tell me and I’ll send you my upload plus my key (hopefully it’ll work).
Edit: It seems that they don’t have an installer that requests a key now and they moved it to cnet instead.
Edit 2: Nope, registration is still needed, Also I just saw the new option too to the latest installer, it’s to restore from a previously created WIM file, don’t check it, you can press “next” without checking ANY option, just leave them both blank.
I am trying to create a system that if my current os/installation (8,1) crashes (which it will given it is on spinning hardware) I can either use a boot menu or disk and go to a usb mass storage device and either boot directly to it or replace the non functioning hdd or recover/replace the corrupt system files to get it to boot again normally. I want to do this without having to do the ever popular scouring the earth looking for drivers/reinstalling junk like adobe which is always a pain….. you get the idea I hope. some process (clone? whatever) that will get ne back to where I was, files and all.
edit: “you can put them to USB sticks with Lili”, yes for linux
You need a system imaging tool, what you have (the paragon tool I mean) is already capable for it, I think you need to use the postmortem backup wizard. I use DriveImage XML or Clonezilla which come with live CDs too (you can put them to USB sticks with Lili).
no doubt paragon would work fine but the learning curve is a bit much for me and it is evidently beyond the scope of this board to answer why paragon can’t get the path right to the ADK files in media builder. so i’ll forget about that one.
on the other hand:
EaseUS Todo Backup
select system backup, then select a usb mass storsge
then go down the menu to tools, select enable PreOS.
works great for my purposes.
Thers a torrent with them all pre made
Paragon Hard Disk Manager 15 Professional 10.1.25.294 BootCD_Recovery Boot Medias
PHDM 15 Pro 10.1.25.294_000 RBM w8.1PE-x32.iso PHDM 15 Pro 10.1.25.294_000 RBM w8.1PE-x64.iso
Thers a torrent with them all pre made
Paragon Hard Disk Manager 15 Professional 10.1.25.294 BootCD_Recovery Boot Medias
PHDM 15 Pro 10.1.25.294_000 RBM w8.1PE-x32.iso PHDM 15 Pro 10.1.25.294_000 RBM w8.1PE-x64.iso
thanks. I already have the iso you referenced. it was more a curiosity as to why, after how many years of build after build can they release a product that fails so miserably at such a simple task, i.e. load some files it linked to itself?
The other part was with the boot disk you posted links to: Paragon Hard Disk Manager 15 Professional 10.1.25.710 WinPE 8.1, the gui does not display all usb mass storage device and then whines about HAL Drivers, which i can find very little information on. what is that about?
I mean, is it too hard for them to release a product that recognizes “all” usb mass storage devices without this bitching about some obscure driver thing? whatever. good luck to them on that. precisely why places like this are excellent: you get to try the full product without getting suckered. I’ve done that personally, paid for software then once they cashed the check, adios sucker.