New Macrium Reflect Updates [2]


  1. Posts : 10,311
    Wndows 10 Pro x64 release preview channel
       #1051

    Just downloaded.


    New Macrium Reflect Updates [2]-mr.png
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  2. Posts : 27,165
    Win11 Pro, Win10 Pro N, Win10 Home, Windows 8.1 Pro, Ubuntu
    Thread Starter
       #1052

    f14tomcat said:
    Just got a notification pop-up! @Cliff S

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    Thanks TC 1st post updated.
    Oh and: #me too
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  3. Posts : 31,471
    10 Home x64 (22H2) (10 Pro on 2nd pc)
       #1053

    Legacy MBR Systems

    • For MBR Windows 10 systems the 'Create an image of the partition(s) required to backup and restore Windows' now includes the Windows Recovery partition.

    And about time too! It always annoyed/puzzled me that I had to manually include it.....
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  4. Posts : 2,450
    Windows 10 Pro x64
       #1054

    Thanks Dick and Cliff.
    I keep having the MR update notifications to off. I don't need it, as here's my notification.
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  5. Posts : 29,078
    Windows 10 21H1 Build 19043.1023
       #1055

    CountMike said:
    This is spooky, how did they know I was going to make a backup in about an hour ?
    Hmmmphphphhhh! My backup happened about an hour before I saw TC's announcement about the update. Oh, well . . .
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  6. Posts : 19,516
    W11+W11 Developer Insider + Linux
       #1056

    Wynona said:
    Hmmmphphphhhh! My backup happened about an hour before I saw TC's announcement about the update. Oh, well . . .
    Lol.that's what usually happens to me.
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  7. Posts : 88
    Windows 10 Professional
       #1057

    Wynona said:
    Hmmmphphphhhh! My backup happened about an hour before I saw TC's announcement about the update. Oh, well . . .
    Ah... I believe that's what has become known as the "Macrium Effect".

    Happens to me all the time. Shortly after I make a backup, updates suddenly become available for one or more of my installed programs. Macrium Reflect.... Firefox.... Thunderbird... etc.

    I have Check for Updates turned off in Edit Defaults in Macrium Reflect and I just check manually from time to time or when I see an update posted in this thread.

    Hmm...

    Bug fixes and Improvements v7.2.4971 - 16th June 2020
    For MBR Windows 10 systems the 'Create an image of the partition(s) required to backup and restore Windows' now includes the Windows Recovery partition.
    Well, I don't need to worry about that. One of the first things I did after (clean) installing 2004 a couple of weeks back was delete the recovery partition. I have no need for it when I'm using Macrium Reflect. Mind you, Microsoft don't make it easy to remove, do they? (You have to use diskpart to get rid of it).
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  8. Posts : 1
    Win10
       #1058

    Bug: Restore warns that it is about to wipe out the backup drive


    I'm trying out the free version of Macrium Reflect, and it wasn't long before I encountered a serious bug.

    I'm helping a friend with his computer, and he's been using Macrium Reflect Free to take regular backups, and his HDD failed. So I installed a new HDD (2TB, same as the old one). Then I installed Macrium Reflect Free on my computer, so that I could generate recovery media. Then I created the WinRE version recovery media .iso, and burned it to a CD. Then I booted it on my friend's computer, with the new (unformatted) HDD installed, and his USB backup drive plugged in.

    I chose restore, browsed to his last backup, and selected it, then chose the unformatted new drive as destination. Then I clicked Finish, and Macrium Reflect gave me one last confirmation screen before it wiped out the "Backup Plus" drive.

    Say WHAT?!? "Backup Plus" is my friend's USB backup drive. I did NOT tell MR to restore to the Backup Plus drive, I told it to restore to the unformatted drive!

    I quit, and started over, and repeated the process, with the same result.

    The USB "Backup Plus" backup drive is 2TB, and formatted exFAT. The new, blank drive is also 2TB, but it is intended to be an NTFS Windows 10 system drive.

    I obviously could not let the restore continue, so I'm currently copying the backup drive onto a scratch drive, from which I intend to retry the restore.

    I've heard good things about Macrium Reflect, but encountering a bug like this the first time I tried it does not give a good first impression.

    Has anyone else encountered this bug?
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  9. Posts : 1,020
    Windows 10 Pro 20H2 19042.572
       #1059

    geeksalive said:
    I'm trying out the free version of Macrium Reflect, and it wasn't long before I encountered a serious bug.

    I'm helping a friend with his computer, and he's been using Macrium Reflect Free to take regular backups, and his HDD failed. So I installed a new HDD (2TB, same as the old one). Then I installed Macrium Reflect Free on my computer, so that I could generate recovery media. Then I created the WinRE version recovery media .iso, and burned it to a CD. Then I booted it on my friend's computer, with the new (unformatted) HDD installed, and his USB backup drive plugged in.

    I chose restore, browsed to his last backup, and selected it, then chose the unformatted new drive as destination. Then I clicked Finish, and Macrium Reflect gave me one last confirmation screen before it wiped out the "Backup Plus" drive.

    Say WHAT?!? "Backup Plus" is my friend's USB backup drive. I did NOT tell MR to restore to the Backup Plus drive, I told it to restore to the unformatted drive!

    I quit, and started over, and repeated the process, with the same result.

    The USB "Backup Plus" backup drive is 2TB, and formatted exFAT. The new, blank drive is also 2TB, but it is intended to be an NTFS Windows 10 system drive.

    I obviously could not let the restore continue, so I'm currently copying the backup drive onto a scratch drive, from which I intend to retry the restore.

    I've heard good things about Macrium Reflect, but encountering a bug like this the first time I tried it does not give a good first impression.

    Has anyone else encountered this bug?
    Have you formatted the NEW DRIVE ? Use "Disk management" to set it up.
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  10. Posts : 134
    Windows 10
       #1060

    I'm using AOMEI backupper free at this moment, but I'm not happy with it, because it crashes computer during the backup if I enable schedule backup.

    Should I try this software instead?

    My basic requirement is that backuper software could do backups of my whole disk every month, so if something happens to my Windows, I can easily restore it with my backup with all the games and apps installed like I had before. Right now, I'm doing backups manually with AOEMEI as it's schedule feature is bugged.

    I have one question regarding this Macrium free edition - Will I have customization of retention rules in free edition? I would like to have 2 previous backups saved.
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