Need Macrium help

Making the boot disk will overwrite everything on your USB.
After that, you can add anything you like.

The Macrium boot disk uses up about 600MB.

I suggested that you learn Macrium using the TenForumsTutorial about it. Link given in
my ditty - File backup vs imaging, imaging utilities, backing up drivers [post #3] - TenForums

BossSiggy said:

... should i choose: Windows boot menu or ISO file ?

I think you should make a boot disk & should add Macrium to your boot menu.
Instructions for both are in the tutorial.


Denis

There are decent videos on M Reflect on Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/results?sear...acrium+reflect

- some by Macrium Reflect staff too.

And it has a huge help file, built in and on line.

BossSiggy said:

...anyway i saw that the first thing Macrium tells you to do is: https://updates.macrium.com/reflect/...user_guide.pdf (using the Media Rescue Builder) how much space does that take ? Because the guide doesnt show that.

Secondly would it be possible to a backup and this bootable thing on the same external hd ?

and last question for now: If i use this Media Rescue Builder should i choose: Windows boot menu or ISO file ?

Usual practice is to make a bootable rescue USB stick. That way you can boot and restore an image even if the hard drive has failed and been replaced. Adding it to the boot menu is convenient, but relies on the drive still being bootable. For safety, most of us make both.

The rescue media builder option to make a USB only appears after you plug in a USB.

As Try3 says, less than 600MB is required, so it makes a good use for any old small USBs you may have to hand.

@BossSiggy

I also made a quickie picture guide for new users...

Macrium Reflect and Bootable Rescue Media, pictures... | Windows 11 Forum



Pretty much everything you need is gathered there.

Try3 said:

Making the boot disk will overwrite everything on your USB.
After that, you can add anything you like.

It does not work like that (in most cases).

If usb drive is fat32 formatted, the boot files are copied to it and existing files are not deleted (unless drive is really full perhaps).

If drive is ntfs or exFat formatted with no fat32 partitions, the partition will be deleted and a new fat32 partition created.

However it is safer to assume other files may get lost so should be backed up.

BossSiggy said:

I think im blind bro, i literally cant find the part about making Rescue Media. I can only find where it says how to: Restore from a backup, using the bootable Rescue Media ?

Here... I removed everything BUT making the rescue media.
The big box in the middle is the only really confusing part.
Whether to choose PE or RE. I chose PE cause I don't have a Recovery partition.
If you have one, you should be able to choose: RE


Step #1.5 is where you choose PE or RE


1. In step #1.5 click the "show more arrow" on the far right.
2. In step #2 you choose: what you're going to put the Rescue Media... ON. Like USB stick or CD.
3. The rest should be self explanatory.







In step #2... I highly recommend choosing either USB stick or CD.
Macrium will make either the USB stick or the CD bootable... automatically.
Just format the USB stick to FAT32, to make it acceptable to the Rescue Media Builder.

Choosing "boot menu" can come back to haunt you, if your... boot menu ever becomes corrupt,
or if your Windows drive ever dies.



If you need to convert the USB stick to MBR... here's how...

Convert GPT Disk to MBR Disk in Windows 10

BossSiggy said:

You'll have to re-initialise that USB stick as MBR instead of GPT.
See

Convert GPT Disk to MBR Disk - TenForumsTutorials
Convert GPT Disk to MBR Disk - MiniTool Tutorial
Convert MBR to GPT or GPT to MBR - EaseUS

Somebody might also post instructions for doing it with Disk mgmt or using Diskpart commands.

It's not a subject I know about.

Denis

cereberus said:

It does not work like that (in most cases).

Thanks for that info.
My brain must be stuck on Windows installation disks & Acronis boot disks.

All the best,
Denis