Windows 10: Macrium Reflect Winpe components

Just noticed the latest version require a download of over 800 MB to download win pe components where it was only approx 500 MB before.

:)

 

Recovery to windows 10 from windows 8.1

That is the main problems with using windows for back up and or system image recovery = it does not work usually when you really need it too any one of the 6 cd's could be corrupt

Hard lesson to learn

Macrium reflect free all you need is a single cd and or flash drive for the WinPE recovery media to boot to and restore a system image on another drive.

Do the basics with a reliable free system image utility to a totally separate hard drive,

Macrium Reflect by Britec

 

System Image Backup

Indeed Macrium Reflect prompts to create the recovery WinPE cd on first starting the program and should be created

You can use a regular cd-r or +r or combination of the 2 or even a small flash drive

I usually create both just in case

But indeed Reflect also has startup repair

You can also add it to the boot options but if having boot problems it may not work this is where the cd and or flash recovery media come in handy

 

Hi,

From MR's changelog:

Macrium Reflect Patch Details

Cheers, *Wink

 

Ah - that explains it - quite a big change though.

 

Hi,

Indeed it is. They're now using the new AU edition of the ADK tool set to build their WinPE.

Regardless of the file size increase it does work very well. As usual from MR.

Cheers, *Wink

 

You can save the download. When it asks if you have a customized wim, just point it to copy of winre.wim

 

Hi,

Care to elaborate on that as I'm not sure I follow.

TIA, *Wink

 

The guys in this thread seem to know a lot about Macrium's WinPE boot disk. I hope you don't mind me asking a question. From time to time I work on family and friends computers. As of late when I am finished, I install Macrium Reflect and image their hard drive. So far I've been making a WinPE boot disk for each computer (four of them so far). Do you think this is necessary? I guess my concern is, if I don't, five years from now the PE boot disk will not be able to restore such an old image. Would a Macrium PE boot disk made today be able to restore an image from 5 or 6 years ago? What do you guys think?

 

Would this Patch be why my Backup error ed at 78% and the verification said it was a corrupted file. is there any way I can get anything out of it or is it a lost cause?? I only used Reflect because it was recommended. :-(

 

Hi,

One rescue disk suffices. They're all the same anyhow.
It's not the WinPE that allows the restore job to succeed but the backup software. I'm sure restoring a 5 year old backup is no problem whatsoever provide the image is fine that is.

Cheers, *Wink

 

Hi,

No, I don't think so.
Try to routinely have MR verify the image once it's done.
I never have encountered a bad image but it can happen nonetheless.

The patch is mainly an update to make the best of what W10 14393 (AKA 1607) has to offer actually.
The changelog tells you more.

Cheers, *Wink

 

I checked it when it was done. made the Win PE usb stick went to use it to go back and it errored on 78%. I have checked the HDD i put it onto and it's good as is the one I am rebuilding the computer with. Oh well it's a clean install now lol So i may sell that box..

 

Select Custom, then browse to a copy of winre.wim and macrium will use it instead of downloading all that stuff.
You can find winre.wim in the hidden recovery folder on your drive. If you are running 1607 or newer, then winre.wim will be 1607 or newer.

(Other imaging programs look for winre.wim to make their boot media, e.g. Aomei and Paragon. )

 

Recently I made a recovery USB stick from latest macrium reflect free. How to know what wim it contains?