New Macrium Reflect Updates [2]

CountMike · 23 Oct 2019

pietcorus2 said:

Seems to me this thread is solved..............

Can't be solved, it's sure there will be more updates to MR.

Phone Man · 23 Oct 2019

Maybe BrummyFan needs to start his own thread as he has a problem with Macrium and USB 3 external drives.

Jim

brummyfan · 23 Oct 2019

f14tomcat said:

What's your issue with the USB 3.0 ports? That's all I've used for years. Can't see them? Crashes? Takes forever?

Hi Tom,
I can not backup with macrium to external HDD connected to USB3.0 port since version 7.2.4473, I think Macrium reflect team knows about the problem and working on it.

brummyfan · 23 Oct 2019

Caledon Ken said:

Post in the Macrium forum. Really good response times.

There is an option to override the USB drivers Macrium uses in media. Start Create media, Advance, Device & Drivers tab, at the bottom. Have you tried this. I would also delete the drivers folders in c:\boot and start with a clean USB thumbdrive. (I'd keep the old one until I knew I had a working new one.) Then create boot media.

I've gotten around the USB3 issues, mostly on older devices, by using a more advance WIM. (Win 5.0 PE and above) That said some older machines and their implementation have this driver issue and they created the USB override.

I assume your USB3 issue is that Macrium doesn't see anything attached to a USB3. At least this is how I've experienced the issue.

Yes, that's correct, Macrium doesn't see my external HDD connected to USB 3 port. Unfortunately, as a Macrium free user not allowed to register to be a member in their forum.

brummyfan · 23 Oct 2019

pietcorus2 said:

No problems at all , just made a fine backup from internal SSD-MBR-partition C:\ with destination to external HDD ( GPT-partition ) on USB3 .
Had to boot the Macrium-cd first , then switched on my external ( Seagate) HDD.
This external HDD on USB3 is "seen" with all the other SSD, HDDs ( USB2) in the Macrium-program.
Backup went fast, with verifying about 5 minutes ( 14GB) ............so , I dont see any problem with external USB3-drives..........

" Macrium doesn't see anything attached to a USB3 ".............not true !

I suppose, you haven't seen this:USB 3.0 driver issues in WinPE 3.1 (v7.2.4473)

brummyfan · 23 Oct 2019

pietcorus2 said:

Seems to me this thread is solved..............

This is not a normal thread, it's a Sticky thread.

cereberus · 23 Oct 2019

brummyfan said:

Yes, that's correct, Macrium doesn't see my external HDD connected to USB 3 port. Unfortunately, as a Macrium free user not allowed to register to be a member in their forum.

So you are basically whinging about a product you get free?

brummyfan · 23 Oct 2019

cereberus said:

So you are basically whinging about a product you get free?

Hello, I am not whinging, you mind your words, it was not a complaint, I was only making a statement in the hope that someone from Macrium might read it, anyway, did you read my post, which part made you think i was whinging.

magilla · 23 Oct 2019

brummyfan said:

Hello, I am not whinging, you mind your words, it was not a complaint, I was only making a statement in the hope that someone from Macrium might read it, anyway, did you read my post, which part made you think i was whinging.

Been using HDD connected via USB3 port for years on 7 computers, none of which have caused problems and backups have been used to restore system as recently as over the last weekend. In fact 5 of computers use paid version but two use free version.

f14tomcat · 23 Oct 2019

brummyfan said:

I suppose, you haven't seen this:USB 3.0 driver issues in WinPE 3.1 (v7.2.4473)

Have you tried the suggestion of using WinPE 10? As stated in the forum....... USB 3.0 driver issues in WinPE 3.1 (v7.2.4473)

As a workaround, have you tried building Rescue Media using WinPE 10? You can do this by clicking Advanced, going to the Choose Base WIM tab, and choosing WinPE 10. It has USB 3.0 support already built in, and there's absolutely no requirement that your Rescue Media be built on the same kernel as your main Windows version.

If this works for you, as an alternative until you get a better fix, you could boot from the rescue media built with WinPE 10 and do a backup and/or restore.