Windows 10: Cannot install Macrium Reflect 7

I have win10 1809. When I try to install macrium reflect 7 message tells me that I am trying to install with a 32bit installer on a 64 bit system and will not load. When I download the installer it says I am running a 64 bit installer I have checked this on about six attempts to load it. I did have an 32 bit macrium installed and I have uninstalled it I have gone through hard drive and deleted anything I can find in macrium and reflect it seems that the 32 bit installer is still hiding somewhere or is it a problem with macrium and 1809 can someone help

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Restoring Windows 10 Image using Macrium Reflect


In addition to the above. Here's my suggestion in step by step.
I assume you have Macrium Installed in your current HD and already made a backup copy.

1. Connect your new HD via USB port and boot up.
2. Run Macrium, click on Restore tab then select the Backup Image that you made to restore
3. click on "select a different target disk" then select your new HD as destination
   
   
   
4. Proceed to restore then Shutdown and disconnect the old HD and replace with the new HD
5. Boot up with your new HD.

 

BSOD on Windows 7 Pro - pssnap.sys - PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA - Macrium Reflect

I recently ran Windows Update on Windows 7 Professional, as I do every few weeks. Everything seemed to go OK, until I restarted and after the animated flag logo formed up, I got a flash of a blue screen and
an immediate restart.



Using F8 to prevent restarts, I was able to read the screen...



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A quick Google shows this is caused by the interaction of Macrium Reflect (back-up software) and a Windows fix for SPECTRE.



I didn't think I still had Macrium installed, so it appears to have left behind the pssnap.sys, which is used at start-up time. Macrium have issued a fix which removes this file from start-up and new versions
of the software no longer install it as a start up service...



Windows 7 32 bit - pagefault_in_non-paged_area pssnap.sys - KnowledgeBase v7 - Macrium Reflect Knowledgebase - KnowledgeBase v7 - Macrium Reflect Knowledgebase



All well and good, but the fix doesn't work for me :-(



The fix involves booting from a Macrium-customised Windows PE and then running their removesnap.exe (downloaded onto a USB stick) which I think alters the registry to prevent the c:\windows\system32\drivers\pssnap.sys
from running.



It tells me it has run successfully, shows the path of the registry entry and eveything. But when I reboot, the BSOD is still there.



I have tried renaming pssnap.sys to pssnap.old. But when I reboot I still get the BSOD (but without the reference to pssnap.sys and the PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA).



I have also tried installing a later version of pssnap.sys (by getting a newer version of Reflect and putting it on another boot partition and copying this newer pssnap.sys over the older one.) I still get
the error.



So I was wondering whether it's not working for me because I have a dual-boot (well multi-boot machine)? I have an SSD with Win 7 and Win 10 plus a HDD with the old versions of Win 7 and Win 10 which were
copied to the SSD.



Is it possible that the removesnap.exe doesn't know which installation to work on?



Do I need to change the broken Windows 7 to be the default boot partition first and then run all of this?

• My only other option is to copy again my Windows 7 HDD over to the SSD and put up with the fact it's out of date.
• I have no system restore points and neither Windows PE or the standard Windows 7 rescue is able to repair the system.
• Mine is similar to the problem posted here in April 2018, https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/t/675553/windows-7-wont-load-or-start-in-safe-mode.

Any/all ideas gratefully received!

 

How do I install windows 10 without harming my windows 7?


Here's what I suggest you to do:

1. From Windows 7, download & Install Macrium Reflect Free. Connect one of your new 500GB HD and clone your current Windows 7 to it. Follow step 1,2,3 from the screen shot:

1. Disconnect your current Windows 7 then boot up with the new cloned copy of Windows 7
2. Upgrade it to Windows 10 so it will be fully activated.
3. If you decide to keep Windows 10 then do a fresh install of Windows 10. If not, disconnect the 500GB HD containing Windows 10 then re-connect your Windows 7
4. You are back to where it was before.