I normally sign into my PC with a Standard User Account (what used to be called a Limited User Account, LUA). All schedules backups happen in the background without any notifications. However, I have noticed that when I sign into my other Administrator account, Reflect provides me an initial pop-up window allowing me to defer the backup if I want and then gives me notifications about what it is doing, including a handy "finished" notification. Should the behaviour for Standard and Administrator accounts be different? Is there a setting I have missed to turn this on? I am using Windows 10; I don't know if this also occurred in Windows 8.1 because I never tried it.
Just in case anyone was wondering about what happens with Macrium when upgrading to Win 10. I did an upgrade from Win 8.1 to win 10 with Macrium 6 (paid) installed along with the boot menu option. After the upgrade (using Media Creation Tool) the boot menu now showed Win 10 as a choice. Opening Macrium it verified my licence and then opened the GUI.
I've done a clean install of Windows 10 but had to utilise the legacy BIOS boot order to do so. I installed Macrium and added the boot menu. The system does show the boot manager screen showing Windows 10 and Macrium even though the Windows Boot Manager isn't listed in the legacy BIOS boot order. It is listed in the UEFI boot order above this which I disabled for the purposes of successfully doing the clean install of Windows 10. I was wondering whether to re-enable the UEFI boot order even though I don't actually have UEFI or to continue using the legacy BIOS as it all seems to be working fine. If I re-enable the UEFI boot order I might have to re-add the Macrium recovery boot option. It may remember the previous setting; I don't know as haven't tested yet.
Tony, if it was built in LEGACY you should leave it that way... all should work just fine. I'm surprised you had to use LEGACY to do the build... the W10 build should have been successful under either mode (I personally use LEGACY-MBR for all my builds).
I'm going to leave as it is because it boots fine to the Windows Boot Manager offering the option to either boot into Windows or the Macrium recovery environment. I was surprised too, but there was a warning message at the bottom of the screen before deleting the original MBR partitions. As this is a Macrium Reflect thread, I won't derail it to discuss it further suffice to say disabling the UEFI boot sources and using only the legacy boot order resolved that.
I noticed that if I boot from macrium USB rescue media, and attach a USB flash drive or USB hard drive after completing the boot process of rescue media, recovery environmen doesn detect these devices. However it does detect these devices if they are already attached to the computer, before I start booting from the rescue environment( installed with boot menue). Probably macrium doesn't load drivers for USB devices if they are not attached during its boot process. This is a problem for me as my tablet gas only one micro USB port. I use this port to boot from a Macrium rescue USB stick. Once recovery environment is loaded I remove the Macrium USB stick and attach the USB drive/stick containing images. How can I force recovery environment to load USB device drivers during boot up even if no such device is attached to the system.
hi i did a test create an image and restored why does macrium v6 winpe edit the windows 10 bcd when the restore in completing?
Either create multiple schedules in Reflect (each initiating a backup on a different hour), or create a single daily schedule in Reflect and then edit it in Task Scheduler to add hourly repeats.
I just did a test. I booted into Macrium RE through a flash drive, removed the flash drive and then plugged my external HDD. Macrium RE detected the external drive OK. I did have to click "Refresh" for it to reload the drive configuration to see the new external drive. Did you click "Refresh"? You did not specify the version of your Macrium WinPE RE, is it based on 3.1, 4, 4.1 or 5? and is your usb port version 2, 3 or 3.1? WinPE 3.1 natively includes usb 2.0 drivers but does not contain usb 3.0 and above drivers. If your Macrium WinPE RE is based on 3.1, try making a new RE based on WinPE 5, that should natively include all usb drivers.
As taotoo mentioned, the easiest way is to edit the Macrium created incremental task in Windows task scheduler, and enable the advanced settings on the trigger tab to repeat the increment backup task every hour indefinitely.
hi i haven't macrium installed , i have only the winpe rescue cd how can i know if when i restore an image with winpe v6 it changes my bcd?
Doesn't work for me. It doesn't detect any USB flash stick, USB external hard disk. However it does detect these devices if they are already attached to the computer, before I start booting from the rescue environment via isntalled boot menue. Interestingly it never detects my memory card. May be it is something special on my system. But I remember very well that this was not the case when I used Macrium version 5 in the past. It use to detect flash sticks just fine, however it also never detected the external hard disk. This scenario is with my tablet. I think i need to test my recovery flash disk on my laptop to see how it behaves there and then also to test v5 recovery environment on both systems.
If the tablet in question is the Lenovo Mixx 2 8" that you mentioned in the hardware forum here, then this is what is causing the problem. I checked Lenovo's user manual, and it does not say that the tablet's micro usb port is designed to work with a usb OTG cable or is compatible with usb OTG standard. You can force the tablet to work with especially designed usb OTG cables as discussed in this Lenovo thread, but this still is a stop gap measure, and this is probably why Macrium cannot detect your external HDD connected to the tablet with a usb OTG cable. The test I did earlier was with usb 2 port and Macrium v6 WinPE 3.1 RE booted through a flash drive. After removing the flash drive and connecting the external HDD in the same port and hitting "refresh", Macrium was able to detect the external HDD. So, in short, it is not Macrium but your hardware that is causing the problem here.
Macrium is probably checking to see if the image it just restored is bootable. I am not sure if it does actually edit the BCD. But your BCD files will change periodically as @Pandlouk mentioned in your other thread. So you do not need to worry about it.
loads of misinformation on macrium pro. you can, and have been able to in older versions, get macrium to add an option to your boot menu to run macrium and restore your boot drive without any cd or flash drive from a winpe wim file. you do need to have your restoreable image on another drive than the one you're restoring to. you can even start the restore from within windows by running macrium 7 starting the restore from windows, it will inform you it needs to restart & it will run and do the restore of your boot drive sans cd or usb thumb drive. again you must have the image on another drive, real or another partition. i have recovered my boot partition many times this way. i do have amacrium rescue cd somewhere gathering dust, just in case the hard drive get cratered to the point you cannot get to the normal boot menu. i even have the choice between win10 & macrium on boot up. i did a rapid image restore last week when i screwed up something tweaking win10. it took 1 min. 30 sec to restore from the night before's incremental. and i did NOT use a cd/dvd or bootable usb drive. macrium pro gives you the option to restore the bcd from the backup image or make a new one. former is reccommended. you do need a cd/bootable thumb to restore to a new unused replacement hard disk/ssd without the appropriate bsd boot info.
Wayne... it's not Macrium 7 it's currently Macrium Reflect v6.x and it's not Macrium Pro it's Macrium Reflect WORKSTATION or SERVER. Macrium's option during restoration is to restore the original MBR or make a new one. Everything else seems OK...
My PC is currently running Windows 10 with a system reserved partition of 500MB. I have a Windows 7 image that includes the 100MB system reserved partition. Will Macrium restore the W7 image without any other steps needing to be done on my part in relation to the system reserved partition? Just wondering if it is possible to restore to a image with a different system reserved partition size. Previously I was able to do restores under Windows 7 and later with Windows 10 because the images all had the same system reserved partition size.
Just installed clean Windows 10. Then installed Macrium Reflect v6 latest download x64. Received the following error when trying to image C drive onto USB backup Starting Image - Wednesday, August 12, 2015 00:03:27 Initializing Destination Drive: UNTITLED (E - Free Space 59.62 GB Creating Volume Snapshot - Please Wait Failed: Code: 0x80042306 - Retrying without VSS Writers ERROR: COM call "m_pVssObject->BackupComplete(&pAsync)" failed. - Returned HRESULT = 0x80042301 - Error text: VSS_E_BAD_STATE Gathering Windows Events - Please Wait Backup aborted! - Failed To Create Volume Snapshot. Result Code: 0x80042306
It looks like your VSS (Volume Shadow Service) might not be running... a requirement for Reflect to image your system.
According to Windows, the service is running fine. Further logs from Macrium. Date 12/08/2015 01:56:52 Type Error Event 12289 Source VSS Volume Shadow Copy Service error: Unexpected error CreateFileW(\\?\GLOBALROOT\Device\HarddiskVolumeShadowCopy12\,0x80000000,0x00000003,...). hr = 0x80070001, Incorrect function. . Operation: Processing PreFinalCommitSnapshots Context: Execution Context: System Provider
Situations like this is why I only do cold image/restore of the OS drive. You got the prime status of your OS drive backed up without unnecessary software, even the imaging software itself.
