imo not thrilled right now. waiting for a response from them. i have a lic issue. its saying its expired even though its the newest version 3pack pro lic... it just asks me to enter a new lic. not cool. im away and i can not restore my incrementals now because i do not have a boot disc with me and the free one does not do that.
I just installed Macrium to my wife's new ASUS laptop that does not have a DVD/CD drive. So, I attempted to create the rescue media on a flashdrive/zip drive. However, after trying 2 different flashdrives, both of them give me the same error message: "The USB Disk contains the maximum number of partitions allowed. Please try a different USB disk, or remove partitions. Error Code: 5" Anyone have suggestions on how to remedy this? I tried formatting the usb sticks in both FAT32 and NTFS and neither worked. Thanks.
Here is Knowledge base that describes boot USB disk creation. Check to see if your USB disk is properly formatted and partition was made active (described in error code 2). http://kb.macrium.com/KnowledgebaseArticle50210.aspx
I have gone through this process and my flashdrive still does not work. I am wondering if it's somehow maybe too old of a flashdrive? It is a 1 GB flashdrive that is a couple years old. Would this make a difference?
I had problem with flashdrive that was formatted in Windows Xp. After re-formatting it in Windows 8, the problem was solved. You can try deleting all partitions (if you have more than one) on that flashdrive and recreating one partition from scratch. I don't know if there are any problems with older flashdrives.
Alexhousek, I just did a test and saw the same error. Using BIBM I wiped the first 1% of the UFD and then created a NTFS partition. The Create Rescue Media sequence then worked and the UFD booted into the Macrium Recovery Environment. Edit... Using a FAT16 partition or unallocated free space doesn't work. A NTFS or FAT32 partition does work.
My apologies, but that sentence sounds Greek to me. 1) I don't know what BIBM is? 2) I don't know what UFD is? and 3) I don't know how to use BIBM to wipe the first 1% of the UFD. Again, I apologize for my ignorance, but could you please provide step-by-step directions or send me to a link where I can learn? If my question is beyond the scope or purpose of this forum, could you please PM me? Thank you. P.S. BTW--thanks for verifying that you also had an issue and that I'm not going crazy. (Or more crazy.....)
@Alexhousek I have tested the procedure and couldn't create boot flash drive also. Only way I could make it was to delete partition and let Macrium create and format new partition. Here are instructions how to delete partition on usb drive: http://superuser.com/questions/536813/how-to-delete-a-partition-on-a-usb-drive Be careful, you will lost all data on that flash drive!
Sorry about that and thanks to zfactor for the translation. I did the above steps to prove the Macrium error message was incorrect. The following was not true.... "The USB Disk contains the maximum number of partitions allowed". I saw this message whenever I used a single FAT16 partition. If the partition was FAT32 or NTFS then everything worked. If there was no partition and no Master Boot Record (MBR) it didn't work. I didn't try no partition with a MBR present. So I'm confidant we can get your boot media to work. A few questions... What size are your UFDs? In Disk Management, what is the UFD formatting? (FAT, FAT32, NTFS, exFAT) In Disk Management, is the partition size the same as the Disk size? The Disk size is in the square to the left of the partition rectangle. Edit... No partition with a WinXP or Win7/8 MBR works.
For those who don't want to do the large Microsoft download for the WinPE, you can make a Grub4DOS UFD using the Linux Rescue.iso.
I tried 2 different 1 GB flashdrives. I went through the diskpart process on both (as indicated in here: http://kb.macrium.com/KnowledgebaseArticle50210.aspx). I brought home a newer 8 GB flashdrive from work that I'm going to try tonight. Thanks for everyone's assistance.
I hope the new UFD works. But you don't need to use a UFD at all. Your wife has a laptop with a single HD, I presume. So she will need an external HD to store her images. You may as well dispense with the UFD and make the HD bootable. So you will boot the USB external HD, create images to the HD and restore images from the HD. The UFD isn't needed. The USB HD should boot in all your computers. When you Create Rescue Media select the USB HD partition. Don't worry about any data on the USB HD partition being deleted, it won't be deleted, just the Macrium files (to make the partition bootable) will be added to the USB HD partition. I rarely use UFDs for restoring images. My recovery environments are mainly on internal HD partitions. And a few are also on external HD partitions, such as the above method.
Interesting idea. I never thought about using an external drive that I store images on as also hosting the rescue media/boot disk. After pondering this idea for a while, it kind of makes sense. There's actually no real difference between booting from a UFD vs. booting from my backup external HD... I do have a 500 GB external HD that I am using to backup my current Windows 7 laptop so that I can then move or transfer my documents (pictures, spreadsheets, etc.) to the new Windows 8 laptop.
The issue which I didn't test was UEFI booting which will probably be needed on the Win8 laptop. Some UEFI systems will boot MBR and UEFI USBs. You might be lucky but otherwise the Win8 laptop will need a UEFI USB or a MBR USB with the BIOS in Legacy mode and Secure Boot turned off. Edit... I just made USB Rescue Media and put a tick in "Enable multiboot MBR/UEFI USB support". It boots in both MBR and UEFI systems. Easy.
"The USB Disk contains the maximum number of partitions allowed" I saw this issue again on a NTFS Macrium UFD. This is what I suggest as a "cure". Use Diskpart as in... http://kb.macrium.com/KnowledgebaseArticle50210.aspx ... but only go as far as "clean". Don't create a partition. The partition will be created when you build Rescue Media. By the way, the "clean" command zeroes the first 2048 sectors on the drive and writes Win7 (same as Win8 ) boot code to the drive. The above Macrium page says "This will erase all data on the USB pen drive". That isn't really true as you can recover all data on the drive (if you want to) after using "clean". The data is still there but you can't see it as there is no partition.
Thanks for asking. Sadly, I haven't had a chance to get back to trying the UFD. I actually brought an 8 GB home from work that I'm dying to try. The issue at this point is that this is actually my wife's laptop that I'm working on and she's been on it every night doing school work. So, I haven't been able to get on it. (I tried kicking her off, but she won that battle.... )
Why does Macrium Reflect show a 128 MB unformatted partition, but Disk Management doesn't? Also, some PCs show a 300 MB Recovery Partition and some show a 100 MB System Reserved partition. There are also 99 MB EFI System Partitions on some computers, which I understand about.
Hadron, All GPT discs have a 128 MiB Microsoft Reserved Partition. As you mentioned, it doesn't show in Disk Management. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/dn640535(v=vs.85).aspx
I think I may have my own answer for this. I think a clean installation of Windows 8 or 8.1 uses 300 MB Recovery Partition, and older operating systems use a 100 MB System Reserved partition. Please correct me if I am wrong.
Hadron, the MSR isn't seen in Disk Management but it is seen in Diskpart. Yes, Win8 uses a larger WinRE.wim than Win7. Win8.1 uses a larger WinRE.wim than Win8 and that's why you can often see two Recovery partitions. The 100 MiB Win7 SRP is analogous to the Win8 ESP, not the Recovery partition.
