Just a brief question about Macrium Version 6 Free. I am getting a red bar in one partition when Macrium saves an image . Is this a problem I should address? Screenshot attached:
Hello ALL: I use Free V6 and just upgraded to Windows 10 from Windows 8.1. Should I rebuild my PE Media or will the 8.1 be OK?
It would a good idea to create a new restore DVD. Choose WinPE 5 under switch WinPE versions, before building the new media. Also choose the your Windows 10 32 or 64 bit you installed. The rescue media builder allows you to add new drivers after you install Reflect 6 in to your Windows 10 drive. It will load the drivers Windows 10 put in your drivers folder. These drivers will be loaded in to the booted media DVD. Your required hardware will work after you boot the rescue disc. Daniel
You can only build PE media for 8.1 at present but it works OK. What you do need to check is that your definitions of the partitions you want to image are still valid. The windows 10 upgrade creates a second recovery partition after C: so any partitions after that will have a different sequence number.
The version of WinPE media you have (and you have checked that it can boot and restore correctly on your PC) has nothing to do with the version of Windows you are running on your PC. Just make sure that when you created the WinPE media, your Macrium was running the latest version, because the latest version of Macrium is compatible with Windows 10, so even if you have WinPE 3.1 based media, it will still be able to restore Windows 10 based image.
Guys, my 180 GB SSD only as 22 GB left and that is with me pushing certain data and other files to other drives. Ideally, I wouldn't have to move samples for music recording /production off the SSD. So I'm considering a 250 or 500 GB SSD. Have Macrium Server edition. How does one clone the existing drive on to a new, larger drive? Are there key "things to remember" to be set up before? If I have to take the old drive out of the PC to put the new one in the PC, how does one hook the two drives up? Thanks much, Chamlin
Hi! at last the MR Team have finally made a Complete User Guide in PDF format! i waited a very long time for this! here is the link: http://updates.macrium.com/reflect/v6/user_guide/macrium_reflect_v6_user_guide.pdf [22.6 mb]
The best answer would be to go through this KB article to figure out how to clone to a larger or smaller drive with step-by-step instructions. However, as you guessed yourself, for cloning you will need both drives connected to the PC at the same time. In a laptop that can only accommodate one drive, the preferred approach is to image one drive and then restore the image to the new drive. Follow the step-by-step instructions for restoring an image to a larger drive in this article. If you still have any questions feel free to ask them here.
So, now that I have upgraded to Windows 10, do I really need to save all 5 partitions? I guess it is only about 300MB more than the 4 in win 8.1.
MPSAN, The fifth partition is the Win10 Recovery partition. The Win8 Recovery partition is no longer in use and can be deleted if you don't plan to go back to using Win8.
I deleted my win8.1 partition. To be clear, the new win10 recovery partition will be immediately after your C: drive and the win8.1 recovery partition will be the other one. In my case the win8.1 partition was the first one on the disc, so using this space for win10 meant I had to move all my partitions to get some free space before C:, then move C: to put the free space after C: using minitools partition wizard free, then expanding the C: partition to include the free space using windows disk management. I could not move the MSR partition using partition assistant so had to remove it, then re-create using DISKPART. If I do want to roll-back to win8.1 I have an image of it created with Reflect.
I'm not suggesting anyone do this but if you delete the Win10 Recovery partition and the MSR then Win10 still loads. The deletions must be done in Windows. It doesn't work if you delete the partitions offline. Win10 won't load and you get a BSOD. FYI.
What That's interesting - I would like to get rid of those two partitions, but the process I found elsewhere to do so looked a bit convoluted to attempt - so tempted to give this a try. What tool did you use to remove them - Disk Management doesn't appear to allow me to delete the Recovery partition?
Maybe one exception Brian. I deleted that stuff using Shadowprotect by first imaging the whole disk for safety. Then as part of the restore, I deleted both partitions, leaving the whole disk unallocated, and unformatted. Then I told SP to create a new partition using all the unallocated space, and restored the partition. As part of the repair, SP fixed the boot stuff so the main C: partition is now the only partition and it's bootable. When I installed W10 over it the configuration was maintained. Only one partition. Pete
Well, for now, I think I will leave it all alone. It does not seem worth it to save 300 MB. What IS worth it seems to be getting rid of $windows-BT&WS and windows.old. I guess I can use DiskCleanup...it shows I will save 25+ GB!
I would be SURE you wanted to stay with Windows 10 before you start to carve up that configuration... give it some time.
taotoo, I used TBOSDT for BootIt. The delete line would be something like... del partition 0 0x3 The first 0 is for HD0. 0x3 is a partition. You find the Partition ID from... list HD 0 /f /u
