I saw that. I rebuilt the PE and added the LAN driver from my MoBo DVD but it did not work. I will try again and tell it to rebuild! When I did this it said all drivers were now present and that the LAN driver was in the drivers folder.
Are you building the WinPE on the same PC that you are booting into? Because, first the LAN driver should be included in WinPE and second, if it is not Macrium will add it by going through your installed drivers. Did Macrium show you a list of drivers that will be added to the WinPE during the WinPE creation? Was the LAN driver included?
They got that right. In my 4-5 years of using Macrium, I do not recall ever booting into the Linux media even once.
Since no one answered you, I wanted to mention here that the RED does not mean anything is wrong with the partition. It is just a way of showing you that your partition is almost reaching its full capacity. The reserved partition normally should stay the same size unless you added something to it. Did you by any chance accidentally add the Macrium bootable WinPE to the reserved partition? In any case, you should not be concerned just by the fact that your reserved partition is showing RED in Macrium.
Yes, I am building it on the same system. At first it shows the list of devices and said it can not find the lan driver. OK, so I had it search my MoBo DVD and it added it OK. My NEW Rescue media even now has the Lan driver in the drivers section, however when the rescue boots, it does not like the driver it had found and liked!
Try this. In the WinPE click Other Tasks, Network Config. Does it show your Network card and an IP address?
Just did an image of my laptop using Macrium 6 free and then tested the boot-up media I burnt. While the PE environment created fine and I could see my image and access, exploring the files of the mounted image was different from what I expected. While I can see all of them, I can actually open any files. No matter if I try doc, jpg or avi files, "no associated programs" can be found. What does that mean? When I do this type of testing in Shadowprotect, the relevant file will run fine.
The Macrium WinPE networking works well in my test computer. No matter how you use the WinPE networking, a UNC path is needed. I've found it's faster to do this from a Command Prompt. At the prompt type something similar to this... net use V: \\computername\sharename /u:username password Connection is fast. Minimise the Command Window To restore, Browse for an image file, open This PC, slide to the very bottom and you will see Network Locations which contains V: (your mapped network drive). Open V: and you will see your image.
Are you saying that you booted through the Macrium WinPE and mounted an image file inside the WinPE and tried to open a file like a .doc and it would not open? If the above is true then everything is as expected. The only way for Macrium WinPE to open a .doc file is if Macrium buys a license of Microsoft Office and includes the software in every WinPE of Macrium. Same should be true for any other file type. The images inside WinPE are mounted through a basic file explorer. It gives you the ability of browsing through your image and even copying important files, but it does not have the ability to open video, audio, docs etc. Now if you mount an image inside Windows, then you are able to use all the software that are already installed on that Windows. I doubt ShadowProtect does anything differently. Though I have not used ShadowProtect in over 5 years.
It is a strange problem. Do you have an updated LAN driver installed on your computer? Because the one on your DVD might be an older outdated one. I have personally never experienced a driver related issue with Macrium WinPE, so my experience in this area is limited. Therefore, I suggest you follow Brian K's advice, he seems to have experience in this area. Did you google your LAN card and WinPE? Because if your LAN driver is not included in WinPE, other users of the same card would have issues too and perhaps somebody has already discovered a solution specific to your LAN card and WinPE.
Raza0007: Thank you for your answer! I was hoping that the red coloring of the reserved system partition bar was not an indication of a problem. Having confirmation of that is a big relief. Thanks again for the info. Looking through this forum has been very helpful – I’m impressed.
Slacker Sonny, Where do you see the red MSR? Can you upload a screenshot? My MSR isn't red. Or are you referring to a different partition? Edit ... It's confusing as there are.... Microsoft Reserved Partition System Reserved Partition but not Reserved System Partition
Sorry, maybe I am unclear re the terminology. I wanted to check on the image by opening a file or running a video. I realise that this is not the same as actually restoring the image but if I don't have to override the OS, I prefer to do it that way, just another way to validate. In SP I click on a little video and this will play once I have mounted the image. I think this is what I did in Macrium, though it does not say mounting, it offers browse for an image or open an image in windows explorer. Seems to me both mount the image as a separate drive, don't know what the exact difference would be between these options. How would I mount an image in order to actually open or run the file? Can I only do that by restoring the image? If so, that's definitely something I can do in Shadowprotect without a full restoration.
Guys, thanks for the clarification. , Yes, the difference is that I have SP installed and mount the images from the installed installation? When I tested macrium I did use only the recovery disk. Doing it from the installed program, it works the same way.
Peter, thanks for alerting me though on my main rig I am sticking with SP and Instant Rescue which works well for me. On other pc I do try other options and do like Macrium and Image for Windows.
No Network present and I know why and can not fix it. Perhaps there is a way to remove just the winpe file from MS and start over? Here is what is in the log... Started 6/22/2015 11:41 AM v6.0.685 DrvLoad: Successfully loaded x:\drivers\Network\VEN_8086_DEV_15A1\e1d62x64.inf. OK, that is the problem but it will not let me fix it. Why? I am glad you asked. This was loaded from my ASUS MoBo DVD and yes it does have the LAN drivers. However, I can tell from my working Win8.1 system that I am using the e1d64x64 drivers, etc and NOT the e1d62x64 driver. So, what is going on is that there are 3 directories on the ASUS disk.......NDIS62, NDIS63, and my NEEDED NDIS64. Macrium is picking the first one, which is why I get the e1d62x64 stuff. I tried to update the driver when building a new WINPE by updating the driver and pointing to the NDIS64 directory and it says no comparable driver found. So, if the vender is wrong, I do not see how to remove the driver and start over...it only lets me update a driver and not remove it! And, Yes, I know, that this has no effect on my Backup, but I thought that I should be able to get networking working.
Sorry for the confusion - I have not made any partitions on my drives, but, of course, Windows 7 created its own small partition. Macrium Reflect Free v6 shows the SSD as one small (100MB) reserved partition labeled “1-Data (None) NTFS Active” and the large “2-(C: ) NTFS Primary” partition. I am actually using Samsung’s cloning software to clone from a Samsung 850 EVO 500GB SSD to a smaller Samsung 850 EVO 250GB SSD. I am using the packaged Samsung “Data Migration v2.7” software (I had it before Macrium Reflect Free v6 and it has been working well). BEFORE upgrading from MR Free v5 to v6, when I ran Macrium Reflect it always showed all the disk partition bars in blue. (Unfortunately, I did not note the size of the “1-Data (None)” partition at that point.) Then I upgraded to the new MR Free v6. Now after cloning w/ the Samsung software, MR Free v6 still shows the SOURCE (500GB SSD) drive with blue bars, but when I install the cloned 250GB SSD in my laptop, the 100MB Data partition shows in red. It appears that Raza007 is correct that the amount of data is approaching the limit of that small partition on the newly cloned 250GB SSD: SOURCE 500GB SSD is using 29.7MB of the 100MB “1-Data (None) NTFS Active” partition (MR Free v6 displaying a BLUE colored bar). CLONED 250GB SSD is using 93.3MB of the 100MB “1-Data (None) NTFS Active” partition (MR Free v6 displaying a RED colored bar). I switch these two drives from time to time in my laptop. Both seem to be working normally. I have no idea where the 63.6MB of “extra data” came from. My question was if I needed to worry about this….
Thanks, all clear. You should be able to mount the SRP images and see what is present. It's weird the new one should contain 93.3 MB of data. The OS is booting OK so nothing to worry about. The SRP contains the booting files and memtest.exe. Here is a Win7 SRP...
Hello ALL: OK, simple question... What can I remove to force Reflect v6 to redownload the pe5 rescue file from MS as I want to start clean and see if I specify the LAN driver from my new location? I wonder if my issue is that I can not change the driver that I KNOW I need, so I want to start over. I see were the kit is, but would think I can just remove a file to force it to get it again from MS. I also see the zip d/l from Reflect ver 5...so I can remove that if needed. I guess what I am asking is how to force a new D/L of the WinPE component from MS so I can do a new build.
The easiest and cleanest method would be to uninstall Macrium, during which process it will ask you what you want removed. When you reinstall it, you can use the "Edit Defaults/Advanced Options" to select wherever you want the PE files to reside... do this before you build your Recovery Media. I have the PE files placed on a different volume (they will be under a folder called "boot") so that a System volume restore doesn't back me up to a point in time where I had different PE files. It also allows me easily to blow away the current file set in case I need a new one (like you do).
OK...so just removing everything from programdata/.....windows kits/8.1/assessment and deployment would not work? I will see if the Advanced Options on the FREE version will let me select where I put the PE files.so, I see advanced options, and it only lets be select a drive. I guess then it will put the files in BOOT. Can I just remove BOOT from my current C drive and have Reflect reload the file from MS? I guess I should do an image backup and then remove Macriom Free and start over...huh!
