Windows 10: Cannot build Macrium stand alone recovery media (V7)

Hi there Never had this problem before with Macrium V7 trying to create stand alone recovery media (It's always on AMD computers - never INTEL that I seem to get Windows problems !!!!!) Cheers jimbo

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Macrium Reflect v7 wont make rescue media (iso or USB)

The default in 7.2 is to make WinRE media because that requires no download, the WinRE recovery environment is copied from your recovery partition. The .wim file is built in the 'staging area' which is c:\boot\macrium. Details here:

Rescue Media Builder - How It Works - Macrium Reflect Knowledgebase - KnowledgeBase v7.2

Your waiklog.txt has several entries where dism tries to mount a .wim from the staging area and reports:Error: 183
Cannot create a file when that file already exists.
This suggests the is a problem in the staging area. If you continue to fail making RE or PE rescue media, try deleting the staging area folder. Macrium will recreate it when you next run the rescue media builder. If you stiil can't build media, look to see if a 3rd-party AV may be blocking access to the c: drive.

 

Macrium Reflect V7.2.4952 Can't creat rescue media

Just as an experiment I created a rescue disk (flash drive) on this PC for the first time. Note that my build is 1903, but that Macrium had available a copy of winre.wim for 1809 according to its GUI.





You can see I choose the 'Build' option - prompted at the top in blue- and Macrium located my build 1903 winre.wim file and used that.













Now the only place I know winre.wim exists is in the Recovery partition.

I wonder if your recovery partition is enabled and configured correctly.

Please try this:

 

Macrium Reflect v7 wont make rescue media (iso or USB)

I would go download v7.2.4440 ... .4325 was having USB issues in building rescue media.
Read release note here: Macrium Reflect Patch Details