Macrium Recovery 'Drive'?


  1. Terrypin
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    Macrium Recovery 'Drive'?


    Opening Win 10 Pro's File Explorer at the 'This PC' level I see an unexpected entry 'Macrium Reflect Image'. As well as File Explorer it's also displayed by other tools such as TreeSize.

    Macrium Recovery 'Drive'?-m-macriumdrive.jpg

    I assume this arises from tentatively trying the first steps of the restore process (as discussed in the parallel thread) and browsing the last full image I made?

    It's obviously not one of my seven physical drives, shown in Disk Management:

    Macrium Recovery 'Drive'?-diskmgmt-28nov2019.jpg

    Is this 'M:' a 'virtual drive'? What storage is actually being used for it? Would it get deleted if I 'explore' another image?
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  3. dalchina
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    Win 10 Pro (22H2) (2nd PC is 22H2)
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    Did you mount (and thus be able to explore) one of your MR image files?

    Note the bottom option:
    Macrium Recovery 'Drive'?-1.png

    - you could search or browse the extensive help file.. or see this on line:
    http://updates.macrium.com/reflect/v...df?src=sidebar

    See page 73
    Macrium Recovery 'Drive'?-1.png
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  4. Caledon Ken
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    Just right click it in Explorer, click Macrium Reflect in Context menu, Unmount.
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  6. Hikertrash
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    Not sure what your problem is but that's a lot of data!
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  7. Terrypin
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    Thanks both. I must have used the FE right-click menu to Explore the image. I didn't realise that it would create a new drive. Have now unmounted it by using the same context menu.

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  8. dalchina
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  9. Caledon Ken
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    Cool. Not sure that it really uses any space on your computer. I know when I mount one from my NAS it is there instantly and some image are over 150GB's.


    Glad you got it sorted.
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