Macrium Reflect

Read this thread, and decided to give it a try. On my daughter's computer with Macrium v8.0 Free, only manual backup is performed, no scheduling. I added a .bat with a registry file to the startup. Now there are no Macrium background processes or services in the process manager. When Macrium is started, the processes and service start and the backup is successful.

 

Or you could also delete ReflectUI.exe and replace it with a compiled .exe named exactly the same.

 

I tried to use the USB rescue media to no avail.

 

I tried another port on the IO panel. Made no difference. ALSO, I just noticed I can not restore any images made with V.X. When I try to I receive the same black window popup from Boot Manager that I received when I first tried to image back to a V.8 image. What a mess.

 

Ok, so you’re not even able to boot into the boot menu Rescue environment? As a first step, try removing and recreating it, which you can do in Rescue Media Builder by selecting Windows Boot Menu as the build target. If that fails, then remove the boot menu option, delete the C:\boot\Macrium folder to reset the entire Rescue Media file cache, and then add the boot menu again, which will automatically trigger a full rebuild.

Then as noted above, try booting from an actual Rescue Media flash drive to perform the restore. If you don’t have one, you should definitely make one because the method you’re using now relies on booting from Rescue files on your Windows partition. It’s certainly convenient, but there are all kinds if failure scenarios where that won’t be possible, so you should always have a flash drive that works regardless of the data state of your internal storage. And in this case, it will be a variable you can adjust for troubleshooting purposes.

 

Ok, here again, what does that actually mean? Remember, people on the Internet can’t see what you see on your PC. If we’re going to help, we need a clearer understanding of exactly what is or isn’t happening on your system, meaning what the lead-up to the unexpected behavior looks like and then the details of said unexpected behavior itself.

Also try using a flash drive built after deleting the cache as described above.

 

Based on the test conditions you’ve described, it doesn’t sound like this issue pertains to restoring V8 images specifically as opposed to VX images. If you can’t even boot into Rescue, it sounds like you’re having a problem with your Reflect X Rescue Media build in general — which could also affect the ability to restore Reflect X images. Or have you in fact performed the same test you described above to successfully use Reflect X to restore a Reflect X image?

 

OK......Everything is now working as it should. With the exception of my brain. Things got broke here and I could not completely repair my problem, so I ended up reinstalling Windows.
I then downloaded the trial X version and used that to get back to where I wanted to be. Thank you for staying with me.

 

Yes, both of my Plugable docking stations that I write my images to are plugged into USB ports on the back panel.

Yesterday I installed hasleo v4.9.3, and this morning created an image with a rescue DVD that I created with it, to one of my Plugable docking stations with no problem at all. That is, it automatically recognized the station that the Reflect rescue media has not been able to.

 

Nothing about my system is preventing hasleo from creating rescue media (DVD this morning) capable of using this docking station, which implies the fault is with Reflect v8.1 (at least). I don't know the most Reflect version that I've created successful Rescue media with. I've been using Reflect and these Plugable docking stations to create and restore images for between 5 and 10 years without encountering this problem before, as best as I can remember.

Thank you to jphughan.

I'll experiment a bit more with trying to a v8.1 rescue media to work, but what I have now meets my needs. I think Macrium should be interested in this.

 

@AlphaOne - Hasleo uses MicroSloth's WinPE download (v2004) when building its Emergency Media... so does Macrium, but only when building a PE media, not when building an RE media.

Maybe you have an issue in that area...

 

This information above made me question when the last time I updated my Macrium boot menu. It's been quite a while. How do I ensure that my Windows/Macrium boot menu has been updated? I've assumed that if it needed done that Macrium would update it when I applied an update patch.

 

I don't know what more I can do with that knowledge that I haven't done already. A few days ago I tried everything I could think of (as the product was intended to be used) to get rescue media built with v8311 or v8325 to see that Plugable docking station, without success. (For those who don't know, probably few here, Plugable is a widely used, well-respected brand. And NONE of my other software has had any problem with it. For over five years.)

I have rescue media from previous versions that restore v8.1 images, and I think I'll be content with that, rather than spend any more of my time (and that of others) on this right now. I'm also going to adopt hasleo as my primary imaging tool.

From my perspective, if Hasleo creates working rescue media when used as it is intended to be used on my system, and Reflect can't, then that's a Reflect bug.

 

The boot menu option relies on the cached Rescue Media file set. That cache is not auto-updated immediately upon installing an update, although relatively few updates include changes that pertain to the Rescue environment anyway. If you want to check the state of your cached build, open Rescue Media builder and look at the stats at the top of the window. If anything has changed since the cached build — new Reflect version, updated drivers, updated WinPE release, changes to build settings — then that area will also indicate that you should update your Rescue Media. In that case, that will occur the next time you click “Build”. If no changes are required, then clicking Build just copies the existing cached file set when building to a flash drive or ISO. If you hold Ctrl, you’ll see an arrow appear on the Build icon. Clicking that will allow you to force a rebuild if you feel it’s necessary, or skip a rebuild if for some reason you want to use the existing cached files rather than updating them first.

 

Thank you. That was very helpful! I did indeed have an update to the rescue media.

 

Someone will probably know how to easily stop this with Reflect but every time I restore an image to a partition or explore an image. File Explorer automatically opens showing the contents of the image or the contents of the partition that has been recovered, which Drive Snapshot, Image for Windows and other imaging software doesn't do this.

Does anyone know how to stop File Explorer from opening? (Reflect 8 and X both do it).

 

For those who are on Version X, there was a update yesterday.

https://updates.macrium.com/reflect/v10/v10.0.8366/details10.0.8366.htm

 

Got it. Thanks to @Antarctica and @stapp for the info.

 

Is there a way to backup and restore scheduler settings in Macrium Reflect 8?
Where on PC are these settings saved (stored)?

 

It should be an xml file under your documents folder in a Reflect folder.

 

No. That would be too easy. XML file doesn't contain settings of the scheduler.

 

Maybe not, I'm not finding anything anywhere else. I was basing that on this screenshot, where the schedule tab references the xml file. I guess someone with some inside information will need to reply.

 

Right click on full or incremental line, export creates a schedule backup file (end in .sch). This can be imported to restore)


.sch file from my system:

 

If you right-click the parent line for the definition file rather than any individual job type, you’ll get a zip file containing SCH files for all of those job types.

Or click the Export button in the button bar right there in your first screenshot to grab everything.