New Macrium Reflect Updates

I wondered about the upgrade from version 6 to 7. I use the free version of 6 and I do understand a free version of 7 won't be available for 2 to 3 months. My question is how does it update when the time comes? Do I simply update from within the software itself using the update check (fingers crossed for this due to its convenience) or does macrium free v6 need to be uninstalled and macrium v7 free need to be downloaded from their site and installed that way?

thanks
wayne

Well I upgraded home version from 6 to 7 within it - needed to do that to get free upgrade.

Once I got upgraded, I uninstalled it including all the adk stuff etc, and reinstalled. I did this simply to ensure I had latest adk files etc.

So simple answer is no you probably will not need to uninstall, but I would do that anyway.

Hi there

If what you currently use works and is 100% reliable - there is absolutely NO reason to upgrade immediately - and even when you do I'd test the NEW version first (using a stand alone version) - ensuring that it at least backups and restores correctly -- not only that you want to see if it restores a backup made with the previous version correctly too

I'm not sure how many backups people keep but it makes sense to have MORE than just 1 - at least for the OS - I usually have 5 of these and for data usually 2 full backups and several "incrementals" - I usually do a full data backup once a month -- even with several TB it doesn't take a humungous long time to run the data backup overnight.

By all means go for latest version of Macrium - but unlike other software don't panic if it takes a while to get an update if what you already have works satisfactorily - and when you DO get it test it properly. Do the restores as well -- no point in having what you think is a successful backup if it won't restore properly - and although Macrium IMO is as reliable as it gets - some backup systems DO give problems on restore even though the Backups have run successfully.

Cheers
jimbo

Hi all, ... here a recovery question.

Just updated to version 7, but for installing the "Recovery Boot Menue Option",
I now get the old windows black-white menu



instead of the GUI Windows 10 menustyle, see attach.
Someone have an idea or recommendation how to fix,

thanks in advance & BR liquid65


Do any have an idea how to fix this. For version 6 all worked fine,

liquid65 said:

Hi all, ... here a recovery question.

Just updated to version 7, but for installing the "Recovery Boot Menue Option",
I now get the old windows black-white menu



instead of the GUI Windows 10 menustyle, see attach.
Someone have an idea or recommendation how to fix,

thanks in advance & BR liquid65


Do any have an idea how to fix this. For version 6 all worked fine,

bcdedit /set {bootmgr} displaybootmenu True

sets old style


bcdedit /set {bootmgr} displaybootmenu False

sets new style.