Windows 10: Reflect 7.3 (free) Boot Menu Option Fails

Win10, Ver 2004, Build 19041.572
Reflect 7.3 Build 5321

Problem: Select Boot Menu option to restore image vs. continue to Windows 10. Once selected and restore process commences (progress bar), the progress bar stops at ~1/4 the way. This has happened repeatedly at least for the last year. I haven't looked into it--easier to just to carry on and boot from USB. After occurrence/failure last week, finally time to figure out the problem.

I've had this 'unable to boot using boot menu option at least through 2 disk restores, at least 3 major Win10 updates and Macrium updates (I'm always using the most current version).

I think the only move not done is an uninstall/reinstall of Reflect. Before I do this I'm checking here so I don't waste my time going in the wrong direction.

Suggestions?

Mark

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Update Macrium Reflect Boot Menu Option?

You should always create a new rescue media when you have updated Macrium. In doing so also the WinPE files for Macrium Rescue will be updated (files in %programdata%\Macrium folder). In this case the boot menu entry does not need to be edited when Macrium is updated.

The easiest way to remove all entries, including Macrium, from boot menu is to boot the PC to Macrium Recovery Console and select Fix Windows boot problems:





Accept all prompts:




Boot menu is gone and PC boots now directly to Windows.

You can manually edit the boot menu in an Elevated Command Prompt with command bcdedit. Here some commands to modify boot menu:

• bcdedit
  • list all boot entries
• bcdedit /delete {Boot Entry Identifier}
  • Removes the selected entry from Boot Menu
• bcdedit /set {Boot Entry Identifier} description "Any Name"
  • Sets the name of selected entry in Boot Menu to your chosen one, instead of for instance having two entries named Windows 10, you can name them as Windows 10 Pro on HDD and Windows 10 Home on VHD
  • New name (description) needs to be in quotes if it contains spaces
• bcdedit /default {Boot Entry Identifier}
  • Sets the selected entry as default OS which will be automatically started when countdown reaches 0

An example. Here I wanted to change the name of the Macrium Reflect System Recovery entry in my boot menu to simple and short Macrium (highlighted blue). For that I need to use it's identifier (highlighted yellow):





Checking with plain bcdedit command I can see the name (description) has been changed:





Notice that the identifier is a 128 bit (32 hexa digits) GUID, with two exceptions: the current OS, the one you are using at the moment is always identified as {current}, and the OS set to be default is identified as {default}. If {current} is also {default}, then all other entries except {current} have the 32 digit GUID.


See these tutorials on our sister site Seven Forums for more bcdedit info:

• http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials...t-manager.html
• http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials...t-how-use.html

 

Macrium Reflect boot menu option


I've been using the boot option since they put it in the free version(version 6)
Since I have an SSD recovery is MUCH faster than with a thumb drive.
I have my boot options set up like this so I don't see it every boot





That way I can get to it through UEFI.
Adding a boot menu option for Reflect recovery - KnowledgeBase - Macrium Reflect Knowledgebase

 

Update Macrium Reflect Boot Menu Option?

About a year ago, I added a Macrium Reflect boot menu option but have never needed to use it. There have been several Reflect updates since then. Do I need to do anything to update this boot menu option? Also, how do you remove the boot menu option?