New Macrium Reflect Updates

OldMike65 said:

Once you click on make a rescue disk, it tells you NEW Updates are available Josey. Then downloads them. That is what I have been saying.

I know that is what I meant.

OldMike65 said:

Your 1st lines were this "It is not always essential to do it" That is why I said I don't agree, as some people could read your statement and figure its not necessary to update their recovery files or their USB stick. MR Always has NEW Updated PE files on every new update / patch !! Period. This last one WAS a Patch, and STILL needed the PE files updated. :)

Well, you can agree or not but it is a fact that it is not always essential - read the many posts here where this has been discussed many times.

I never take the risk though.

cereberus said:

Well, you can agree or not but it is a fact that it is not always essential - read the many posts here. I never take the risk though.

Ok, but the last 8 updates / patches, have all had New Updates. :) And I think that number is on the low side.
If the user does not manually check for new PE updates, then they will never know if there are any or not.

CountMike said:

Looks to me that MR doesn't keep WinPE but just downloads it again every time a rescue USB/disk is made. I updated rescue USB only when MR update told me to and it never missed a beat.

Correct - this has been discussed many times here.

cereberus said:

Correct - this has been discussed many times here.

Yup, you can lead a horse to water, but ya can't make him drink. :)

I usually just recreate a USB when there is a version change (v5.0, 6.0 and now 7.0) or when it can't read my image backups anymore (will pop up an error message when trying to restore an image created with the latest Macrium).

badrobot said:

I usually just recreate a USB when there is a version change (v5.0, 6.0 and now 7.0) or when it can't read my image backups anymore (will pop up an error message when trying to restore an image created with the latest Macrium).

Problem is if usb does not read backup and OS drive has failed, as you have to use another pc to create latest usb which isba lot of faffing around.

I just used 6 month old rescue SD card on USB adapter to restore my Linux mint to second SSD so at least that old WinPE works. It's there just to BOOT and provide elementary OS for MR software to run.

cereberus said:

Problem is if usb does not read backup and OS drive has failed, as you have to use another pc to create latest usb which isba lot of faffing around.

That's correct. I think it is not an issue to the majority of us who have more than 1 machine. But most of the time I just use the secondary OS on the same machine to restore the image backup on the other drive
That's the beauty of having 2 OSes or more on the same machine independent of each other. Just wipe the other drive away. All data are on dedicated hard drive.
But anyway, it also only takes about 3minutes to make one with a new WinPE download.