Macrium Reflect Free nightmare. Will not work.


  1. Posts : 26
    Windows 10 64bit
       #1

    Macrium Reflect Free nightmare. Will not work.


    I had no problem when I had/used Reflect on Windows 8/8.1. Now that I've upgraded to 10, I can't get Reflect to work at all.

    I followed the directions to the letter on their website. I use disk part exactly as they say. Then 1 of 2 things happen when I try to create rescue media. 1) I'm told that there's more than 1 partition on the drive. 2) No room on the drive that I just reformatted using disk part.

    I've tried this at least 10 times with the exact same results.

    I'm using a 128GB flash drive for the backup.

    When I open the drive, it shows 1 folder. System Volume Information. That folder shows that the size is 0 bytes and 0 files. When I look in This PC, it shows the drive as 119GB in size and 119GB free.

    I'm at my wit's end.

    TIA
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  2. Posts : 4,131
    Windows 3.1 to Windows 11
       #2

    The rescue media has to be a Fat32 partition and it only support 32GB...

    so the rest of the 128GB will be useless - use a smaller USB for the rescue media...
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  3. Posts : 1,621
    Windows 10 Home
       #3

    Wait, keep the 128GB stick for your external media -- for use in putting your data material on it as you copy such off of the internal hard-drive. Meanwhile, get a 8GB-16GB usb stick for your rescue boot, I have a bunch of those around with all kinds of rescue boots.
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  4. Posts : 26
    Windows 10 64bit
    Thread Starter
       #4

    Kyhi said:
    The rescue media has to be a Fat32 partition and it only support 32GB...

    so the rest of the 128GB will be useless - use a smaller USB for the rescue media...
    Doh! I had a total brainfart.

    I wasn't thinking at all.

    I should've referred to Imaging. OK, have another couple questions. Exactly which partitions do I need to image?


    Just C or all of them? Also, when I now try to do an image, it's asking for a username and password. That wasn't the case with 8.1.
    @Roland, I have an external drive for my media. The flash drive I bought to do hard drive images.
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  5. Posts : 3
    Windows 10
       #5

    Hi everyone. I just joined specifically to share the solution to the same problem with my own Windows 8.1 ASUS laptop.

    Regardless of trying many possible solutions, the Macrium Rescue Boot USB would not boot, or simply stall every single time and go no further.

    I discovered this through much trial and error from searching online for literally hours.

    Please see the two screenshots here, as this most definitely worked for me and should for you too.

    For Windows 10 you should choose Windows PE 10.0 as your rescue media option...

    Macrium Reflect Free nightmare. Will not work.-1.-vip-procedure-using-macrium-reflect-rescue-boot-media-restore-image.jpg


    Macrium Reflect Free nightmare. Will not work.-2.-vip-procedure-using-macrium-reflect-rescue-boot-media-restore-image.jpg
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  6. Posts : 1,020
    Windows 10 Pro 20H2 19042.572
       #6

    Odos270 said:
    Doh! I had a total brainfart.

    I wasn't thinking at all.

    I should've referred to Imaging. OK, have another couple questions. Exactly which partitions do I need to image?


    Just C or all of them? Also, when I now try to do an image, it's asking for a username and password. That wasn't the case with 8.1.
    @Roland, I have an external drive for my media. The flash drive I bought to do hard drive images.
    My guess on which partitions to backup, would be 1,2,4. But since doing all of them the results will still be less than 80gb. But I believe the problem your having is when you selected to backup, Macrium has no idea where the target drive is because it hasn't been specified. I would guess it selected your USB drive for backup thus you get the partition error message. After you select these 4 partitions, make sure your target (USB Drive) isn't selected (note the window may be scrolled up).
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