Hey all, been away for awhile but I'm back with a new situation I'm sure someone here can help with. I have an external hard drive (BUP Slim) with two partitions: one large one at the front of the drive lettered D; and a small one at the end of the drive lettered E. The small one has Macrium Reflect rescue media. I'd like to boot from it and use the large partition to store backup images and restore them from there. However, when I start up to boot options drive E doesn't show as an option, only D. Would changing the drive letters help? For example, change D to E and vice versa. Is what I'm trying to do even possible? Thanks.
I have UEIF system. However, somethings pretty messed up now. I decided to try a flash drive Spartan you're a genius! Yesterday I tried basically what you did but without Rufus and got nothing. Today I watched you're tutorial and included Rufus and bingo. The rescue partition still doesn't show in the boot options menu but when I boot to the external drive Macrium runs. Thanks for the tutorial. Hopefully others will also find it helpful.
Glad I was able to help! Cheers. PS: I updated the video with the latest ISO image of Macrium Reflect v8 if you wanna grab it. The link is in the description.
I caught something in your video I didn't notice before. Did I understand you to say you can create backup images from within the recovery environment without even having Macrium Reflect installed?
That is correct... I do it all the time. BUT, legally, you are not supposed to do this on an unlicensed piece of hardware.
External or COLD backup doesn't use any sort of Windows "shadow" FileSystem (VSS locking) because when running from a WinPE, the OS partition to be imaged is not "locked" in any way. It's a little cleaner of an operation but, of course, does not allow use of the LIVE System during the operation. I've never had issues using either method of imaging (COLD or LIVE).
Only if the Recovery Media was produced through a paid licensed System... I don't think that's possible if the media was produced via a FREE version.
Oh I see what you mean. You're only supposed to use a single license on one computer that MR was licensed to. However, you can use the recovery media on nearly any computer. Or so I surmise. If you make backups only on the computer that's licensed I don't see any problem with that. It may still be illegal though, I don't know.
Getting back to your original post. You should see an entry in the BIOS Boot Menu for the Macrium partition. How did you create the Macrium partition?
I just tried this... Make a Macrium UFD, image the UFD partition and restore the image to free space on the USB external HD. Macrium boots from the USB external HD.
