An older version of a bootable CD may not work with Images created with a newer version of Macrium.
You should create a new Recovery CD with the new version of Macrium.
The Macrium Change Log tells whenever a new Recovery CD should be created.
With Macrium V6 you can also add a boot menu item to run Macrium Recovery from the HD/SSD.
This won't work if the HD/SSD fails, so you should always have a bootable Recovery CD.
So I have been using Reflect Free for awhile now and i love it, nice and fast the only issue is that I have make a rescue usb for each PC...is there a way around this...i was reading on this forum about yumi but that was on a older version of reflect....i would like to have one boot usb for all makes and models of pc's that we use and have all the images on that usb...about 10 or so...would be more convenient than carrying all the different usb...boot with linux and start reflect to restore image...thanks
You don't need to do this. You should have a rescue USB/CD for Macrium V5 and one for V6 depending on what version you are using. These should work on multiple PCs using Windows 7. I keep a couple of rescue devices for this purpose in case one fails. You can also store away the rescue ISO somewhere.
I have Macrium V5 still on one PC and V6 on another. I've found the version 6 rescue CD works on V5 images (ie. backward compatible) V5 rescue CDs won't work on V6 images. V6 rescue using pe5 incorporates USB 3 drivers which is useful.
I admit I haven't used the paid version but haven't experienced a driver problem with the V6 pe 5 rescue on different PC hardware. Maybe there is a driver issue and other feedback would be useful.
I hope it is ok to ask this on this thread. I am about to install Macrium Free Version but was worried about having to go into BIOS to change the BOOT to Hard Drive in order to make a Rescue CD. I have 2 questions. Can I create the Rescue CD on a blank CD instead of a DVD. The second is regarding Mesh Computers. I would like to be certain that I leave the BIOS at the default setting when I have finished making the CD. Do you know what the default setting is, and how to return to it ? It is set on Hard Disk at the moment (I saved it on that with great trepidation when I went into BIOS to look at the menu.) I want to know what I am doing before I start downloading Macrium. My husband is having forty fits about me going into BIOS at all !
Hi,
You shouldn't have to change the boot order the default should be fine.
Yes a regular cd -r or +r or combination +-r cd's are all that is needed for the WinPE recovery media it is less than 500 mb's
You could also use a 1gb flash drive.
When you get the Macrium Rescue CD created you should test it to make sure it works.
You should be able to boot from the Rescue CD and run Macrium.
You should have a "One-Time boot menu" option where you can tap on a key when the PC is starting up so you can choose a boot device without making BIOS changes.
I don't know what the One-Time key is for your PC, it's different for different PC's.
If you have a User manual it might have this info there.
It also might display it when the PC is booting up with something like "Fn=Boot Menu", but that screen can go by quickly.
I just learned something interesting yesterday. If you attempt to clone an MBR drive to a GPT drive, the GPT drive will become an MBR drive.
In my case, I was cloning a 2TB HDD (MBR) to a freshly formatted 4TB SSD (GPT, obviously) and wound up with an SSD that had two roughly 2TB partitions, one of which drove me nuttier than usual because I couldn't do anything with it when I tried to fix it with MiniTool Partition wizard until I finally dawned on one of my few remaining brain cells (three, I think; I have trouble counting that high) that the working partition was MBR. Once I converted the working partition back to GPT, I was able to use FreeFileSync to transfer my data from the HDD to SSD (which was probably better, even though slower, since FFS is set to verify every copy operation).
Who says you can't teach an old dog new tricks?
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