Hi Guys - in a bit of trouble here.... I have been struggling for days trying to work out a way to get my MS Surface Pro 5 to image the internal disk drive. The SPro5 is unable to boot but I can get through to a Command Prompt from a bootable USB drive. Once in I can navigate to the C drive of the SPro5 and go to: C:\Program Files\Macrium\Reflect. The Reflect program is there but when I type in Reflect -e "E:\SP5Backup" nothing happens. Nothing happens if I type "Reflect -h" either. Can anyone please advise how to get this to work? Just to add fuel to the fire, I had created an image backup of the SPro5 and stored it on a 1TB external drive but in the process of building a USB drive using MS's Media Creation Tool, I thought I was building it in a blank partition but it over-wrote the file structure and created just 1 partition with the boot drive on it .... bugger bugger bugger!. Now for safety I need to re-image the SPro5 C drive before I try and reinstall Win 10 (Op Sys only) leaving my data alone. I have also built a Macrium Reflect x64 boot drive from Macrium Reflect 7 running on a HP2640P HP machine (x64 processor running Windows 8.1 in 32-bit mode). Took a bit to work out the right configuration for the USB boot Drive in WinRE. I hope you can help sort out what I need to do to to get the SPro5 imaged. Last thing, once I have created a command prompt backup up image file on the external drive, will I be able to restore individual files from the created image using Macrium Reflect (7 or 8 ) from a Windows 8.1 or 10 operating system? NiteOwl
NiteOwls, I'm confused about what you are attempting. All you need for backup/restore is a Macrium Boot UFD.
Thanks Brian I was trying to run reflect from the C drive of the SPro5 by navigating to the folder and running the installed Reflect from the Command Prompt? I haven't tried running Reflect from the Macrium Boot UFD (USB drive?) - I'll give that a go today. AJ
Thanks - was just making sure. Do you know if I do a command line backup (reflect -e "d:\backup_file_name.xml") if I will be able to read that backup file (ie in the correct format) from an installed version of Macrium Relect under Win 10?
Thanks for all your help guys - very successful outcome. Not only able to image my Surface Pro but once I had made the copy I was able to address the non-boot issue by using the MR repair boot issues (rewrites BCD). After a couple of goes at that I was able to restart the SPro5 using the "Internal boot" option. This brought the whole PC back and I'm back to using the computer writing this. Thanks again. NiteOwls out.
