My Fix For Macrium Reflect Free 7 Rescue Stick Not Booting


  1. Posts : 1
    XP
       #1

    My Fix For Macrium Reflect Free 7 Rescue Stick Not Booting


    Although my experience is with the titled product (and with Win XP and Win 7), I suspect, from reading all kinds of stuff about this subject, this would apply to any Macrium Rescue stick with this problem. There are several "solutions" out there, but mine is rather simple (and is the result of someone else's post somewhere): use DISKPART to make the Rescue Stick partition "ACTIVE". I had to do this even though Disk Management said it was already "active" before I performed the DISKPART!

    This tells me that Macrium did what it thought was correct in marking it as "active", but it really isn't from a boot program's perspective. Why Macrium cannot compare their partition after creating the rescue stick to the partition after performing DISKPART, in order to fix the problem on their end, is beyond me. I spent a whole lot of time on this, so I hope this helps many others.
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    Windows 11 Pro, 22H2
       #2

    Welcome to TenForums!

    My suggestion, to ensure that any WinPE or WinRE based boot disk works properly, is to do this before creating the boot disk:

    Run diskpart

    Within diskpart run these commands (I assume disk 2 is the correct disk ID in the below example. Substitute correct disk number for your media):

    list disk (to get the disk ID of the thumb drive)
    select disk 2
    clean
    convert mbr
    create partition primary
    active
    format fs=fat32 quick
    assign
    exit

    Now create your bootable thumb drive using Macrium, Acronis TrueImage, Veritas System Recovery, etc.
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