Macrium Working - but some drives are missing

Hi,

Interesting....a quick search yields the following (see 4th post down):

Macrium Support Forum - Local drives not displayed

Are you using the free version?

Regards,
Golden

you need the PRO version for GPT disks Not even the paid for Standard version works. Have a look at the comparison on the download page in my sig.

IcarusII said:

Darn it...

So my earlier decision to initialize my HDD using GTP was a mistake it would appear.

So if i want to be able to image any data on the drives Ive created on that HDD i need to delete them and re-make them using MBR style?

Is this the correct (yet a bit sucky) approach?

Thanks
Matt

I guess so if you want to use Macrium Free. There may be other backup software which may work with GPT disks. I might be worth having a look at Paragon and Easus ToDo. I don't know whether they support GPT but it is worth checking.

Dear IcarusII,
Hi! Apart from the format which caused you to not view all the disk drives, there is another very important issue with the free Macrium Reflect Ver.5.

The linux based rescue disk ,which is very popular and easy to create,DOES NOT recognize RAID External/internal HDD (partitions). As a result, when you start the Rescue Wizard after popping in the Linux CD/DVD, you will get a message"the free version does not support RAID".

The solution is to create a Bart PE rescue Media,which will access all drives (where you have stored the backup images). This involves downloading WAIK( roughly 1.8 GB) from the net and burning it to DVD.
This vital point is surprisingly not mentioned in any of the Macrium support forum tutorials.

regards,
sree

Would Win Builder RE do the job with Win PE? But you still need WAIK and driver packages.

HammerHead said:

Would Win Builder RE do the job with Win PE? But you still need WAIK and driver packages.

Dear HammerHead,
The Macrium folks have customised the Bart PE to suit their needs. Once you choose the above media, the process of downloading the necessary "components" of WAIK is automatic. The manual input is to insert a DVD-R/DVD-RW and using the iMGBurn(in my case), burning the .iso to the inserted Disk. The one advantage is you need to create only once and can be used for all the backups for restore. The one niggle is it needs to load a few drivers for 1)Network, 2)Audio and 3) Ethernet.Naturally one has to choose the path of C:/Windows for the downloads.

I was used to the Linux environment rescue disks and this is a new experience to me; i mean you got to wait for the drivers to load before proceeding further. This has really stolen the beauty and simplicity of Mac-Ref Backup &Restore! IMO,version 5, though customized to the 64-bit and windows 7 OS, is a bit difficult for beginners,no doubt about it!
regards,
sree

Just a small point. It is no longer BartPE but the full Windows PE 3. I agree that it is vital to use that rather than the Linux disk.

Excuse me. I looked at "Bart PE" as an entirely different app than "WIN Builder RE".

"The solution is to create a Bart PE rescue Media,which will access all drives (where you have stored the backup images). This involves downloading WAIK( roughly 1.8 GB) from the net and burning it to DVD.
This vital point is surprisingly not mentioned in any of the Macrium support forum tutorials"