Backup and Restore with Macrium Reflect  

blueskyler said:

thanks for reply.Cause i have a 32GB usb drive, after i created the boot drive from macrium software, can i include a custom folder on the root of the drive(i need put some personal backup files) without break anything.?thanks

Yes, you can, as fdegrove said. Best advice I can give you is look to see what Best Buy, Office Depot, etc. have on sale for 4GB (if you can find them), or 8GB thumb drives, and pick up a couple. I understand the 32GB space not being wasted, but it's best and safest to have a small dedicated thumb drive all by itself for the Rescue. That guards against any accidental deletion or damage from other use. Just my advice.

blueskyler said:

thanks for reply.Cause i have a 32GB usb drive, after i created the boot drive from macrium software, can i include a custom folder on the root of the drive(i need put some personal backup files) without break anything.?thanks

An extra folder is fine. Mine has one with portable apps.

f14tomcat said:

Yes, you can, as fdegrove said. Best advice I can give you is look to see what Best Buy, Office Depot, etc. have on sale for 4GB (if you can find them), or 8GB thumb drives, and pick up a couple. I understand the 32GB space not being wasted, but it's best and safest to have a small dedicated thumb drive all by itself for the Rescue. That guards against any accidental deletion or damage from other use. Just my advice.

Good advice - in fact, it makes sense to create two. You can never find the usb when you need it, or it decides to fail.

cereberus said:

Good advice - in fact, it makes sense to create two. You can never find the usb when you need it, or it decides to fail.

Also create a boot menu entry, difficult to lose that.

kado897 said:

Also create a boot menu entry, difficult to lose that.

Ironically, if you use the "fix Windows boot problems" link, it loses the boot entry for Macrium - lol

cereberus said:

Ironically, if you use the "fix Windows boot problems" link, it loses the boot entry for Macrium - lol

Didn't know that.

Soapm said:

I got this error after creating the USB recovery stick, what it doesn't say is HOW to go about this? I want to make sure I get this right so it works when I need it.

Run this from administration command prompt

diskpart

list disk

select disk # (# is number of usb drive)

clean (Warning - this wipes whole drive - backup data first)

convert MBR

create partition primary

select partition 1

format fs=fat32 quick

assign

active

exit