Macrium Reflect- leaving junk?

Can I also browse the hard disk if Windows is installed?

Senteaf said:

Okay I am a confused - on the Macrium tutorial you can see there is a button to burn such a recovery disk on a CD/DVD/USB storage. therefor eliminating downloads and hoops and jumps.

Yes there is a 200MB partition, probably for the MBR if I recall correctly and other required boot files.
besides the 200MB partition, the 500GB of the OS and user files, there two more partitions - one for the recovery solution and another one which I can not even see in process explorer and can also not even rename/delete. It is weird because I am an admin. I don't see any way the Manufacturer could block my access.

I assume you are referring to Macrium 5.0?? It does include a choice to make the PE disk directly. I don't think earlier versions of Macrium had that feature.

Your unexplained partition is likely a Lenovo tools partition and is not required for Windows to work properly. I don't know how you access it---possibly through a menu or function key during boot or maybe through something listed in your installed programs list or Control Panel?

kado897 said:

I don't think so on the Linux disk. You can with the PE disk.

ignatzatsonic said:

Senteaf said:

Okay I am a confused - on the Macrium tutorial you can see there is a button to burn such a recovery disk on a CD/DVD/USB storage. therefor eliminating downloads and hoops and jumps.

Yes there is a 200MB partition, probably for the MBR if I recall correctly and other required boot files.
besides the 200MB partition, the 500GB of the OS and user files, there two more partitions - one for the recovery solution and another one which I can not even see in process explorer and can also not even rename/delete. It is weird because I am an admin. I don't see any way the Manufacturer could block my access.

I assume you are referring to Macrium 5.0?? It does include a choice to make the PE disk directly. I don't think earlier versions of Macrium had that feature.

Your unexplained partition is likely a Lenovo tools partition and is not required for Windows to work properly. I don't know how you access it---possibly through a menu or function key during boot or maybe through something listed in your installed programs list or Control Panel?

Yes Macrium Reflect, it is back on and is free too.
They have that option as seen in a screenshot in sevenforums' tutorial.

So by burning it directly to optical disc I can access an external HD through USB and have it save the output on my ext HD.
Yes I am not sure why it is there, I guess I will ask in the respective forum.

kado897 said:

I don't think that button does anything on the free version. You need to select the radio button below it (custom PE) which also downloads the WAIK (1.7GB download) to create the PE disk from. It is all done with a wizard so you don't need to know about the WAIK. That is the way they get around licencing problems with Microsoft.

Are you talking about Macrium Reflect?
Comparison
Free
Linux Rescue CD


It actually is available in the free version.
No way it is as huge, it should be simple so maybe you are confused with something

I think Kado is right, Here is a screen shot from the free version of Macrium 5.0. Looks like you have to download from Microsoft if you want the PE disk.

If you have the paid version, you can choose "Standard Windows PE". Otherwise, you are forced to "Custom".

The Linux disk is another story and is available in the free version.

Okay then, what are the differences between PE and Linux?