Macrium Reflect

Hi Chamlin. I run AX64 and Macrium standard. Answers to your questions as they pertain to me.
1. I do C: drive
2. When I do a AX64 backup, I'll do a macrium also if there are significant changes to the C: drive.
3. I don't
4. I don't
5. I don't know
6. I made recovery CD's for both AX64 and Macrium.

Hope that helps.

 

hi
when i try to uninstall it , i left them

 

Did you create bootcd with WinPE environment? I guess that's when those files are created in boot folder.

hqsec

 

That's strange. Two subfolders in c:\boot\macrium are aprox. the same size as are WinPE 4 and 5 ISO image sizes. And time of creation is also the same (see attachment).

hqsec

 

Yes, thanks for the assist with this.

 

Just to confirm I made both win pe 4 and 5 and do not have those files in my boot folder either.

 

I don't remember to installing it. Don't know how to remove it. It's not under Add/Remove programs neither under Macrium custom install. I also checked options in program but could not find it. I also don't get any boot menu options when starting system, neither is there any additional entry in system startup settings (only Windows 8.1). When I checked on Macrium site it says that this option is only available to registered users: http://www.macrium.com/webhelp/windows_boot_menu.asp. I use free version of this application. Maybe those files were copied there just in case...

hqsec

 

can I make incremental backups when cloning my HDD?

OK,
I cloned my HDD to my second backup HHD.
My recovery media is on a thumb drive.
My backup went well and I can review the files on my recovery thumb drive.
Here is my question, Can I setup Macrium Reflect to automatically make incremental backups when cloning?

 

One more thought about my "problem":
Since files were created during BootCD media creation it might have something to do with it. When I checked the process of creation I found out that there is an option "Enable multiboot MBR/UEFI USB support", which can't be un-checked. Might this be the source of the "problem"?

hqsec

 

No, MSConfig shows only Windows 8.1 boot option. I will leave those files for now.

EDIT: also system image size has grown from 11 GB to 14 GB. All those things happened after upgrading to latest version 6474.

EDIT2: increase in image size is not related to this problem.

hqsec

 

An update: I think I found what those are - those are stored Macrium PE files. You can select the drive where you want them stored in advanced options (see picture). When I changed the drive to D: all those files were moved to d:\boot\macrium. So I guess mistery is solved

hqsec

 

I have never tried it but can Macrium Reflect restore an image from a smaller 128GB SSD to a larger 256GB SSD? And how about vise versa? Thanks!

dja2k

 

Thank you Peter2150 for testing. I might delete them also or move them to D:.

hqsec

 

There's a new version: 5.2.6504 (20140320).
Changelog says backup speed increased up to 30%
Can't wait to test it when I get home...

 

I want a simple backup (image?) of a single HDD to Blu-ray DVD and nearly decided on Acronis TI or SyncBackSE but this Macrium Reflect Standard looks interesting. Not interested in bells and whistles just a bulletproof backup. Best choice?

 

Image for Windows

 

Thank you for info. I can confirm speed improvement. For me transfer rate has climbed from 75 MB/s to 100 MB/s. Time to create system image has been reduced from 4:15 to 3:45. Great work Macrium

hqsec

 

Love this software