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[whs]

Michael, they are after our pocket book. And yes, 5.3 supports W8.1 and UEFI. I just installed it on a 8.1 laptop and created a recovery stick. Both work. W10 remains to be seen.

 

[groze]

Michael, they are after our pocket book. And yes, 5.3 supports W8.1 and UEFI. I just installed it on a 8.1 laptop and created a recovery stick. Both work. W10 remains to be seen.

If I recall correctly I was able to use Reflect with one of the windows 10 preview. However, there is a simple work around. I haven't tried this method though. You can boot up using to the windows 7 reflect rescue media (CD, USB Flash, or USB hard drive) and you can make and restore images from there. It will back up whatever is on your partitions. This I read also works for those that have just have Linux installed. You still have to create the windows rescue media in Windows 7. I choose the standard rescue not the Linux method.

 

[whs]

The WinPE rescue media is actually the same as the installed program except that it cannot retain the XML files because the media is not persistent.

However, if you have a UEFI machine, you need an UEFI version to boot or you have to set the BIOS into legacy mode and set secure boot off.

 

[Lady Fitzgerald]

Michael, they are after our pocket book...

That also was the feeling I got. The main (if not the only) difference between the Personal and Business versions of V6 is the amount of support one can receive.

...5.3 supports W8.1 and UEFI...

I have 5.3 installed on three Win 7 UEFI machines, a desktop machine and two notebooks. I used MR to install the latest version of Win PE (Win 8 based) on USB sticks.

 

[SIW2]

If you are using win7, then why not use proper winpe, with recovery options included?

If you have a win8 machine, you could also make a proper win8 pe.

Those macrium ones have nothing except macrium itself.

 

[Lady Fitzgerald]

If you are using win7, then why not use proper winpe, with recovery options included?

If you have a win8 machine, you could also make a proper win8 pe.

Those macrium ones have nothing except macrium itself.

The Macrium Reflect ones are all I need.

 

[LM2008]

Is Macrium Free Edition still available? the link brings me to a "page do not found" sort of message.

 

[kado897]

Try the link in my sig.

I notice the link on that page is to download.com which has a rep for bundling toolbars so be careful.

 

[dsperber]

Is Macrium Free Edition still available? the link brings me to a "page do not found" sort of message.

It is still available, here.

And they appear to have upgraded it to v5.3.7277 dated Feb 4, matching the final version of the non-free Standard release.

 

[DavidE]

You can also still get it (and older versions) from FileHippo here:
Download Macrium Reflect 5.3.7277 - FileHippo.com

 

[lehnerus2000]

Make sure you get the full installer and not the 2 MB Internet shortcut thing (who knows how much longer that will work).

I downloaded the full installers from FileHorse earlier today.
Compression and Backup / Software Downloads / FileHorse.com

 

[DavidE]

Who knows how much longer anything on the "web" will work as it did earlier ?
Does FileHorse have the ability to choose the PE components for those that want/need them ?

I can still pick what i want to download using the "reflectdl.exe" Download Agent, and keep everything i might ever need ...


For me downloading the PE5 WADK Rescue Components takes apx. 5 minutes
Downloading the Windows 7 AIK takes apx 15 minutes.

From what i see and understand the Macrium WADK components will work for Win 7 and Win 8.x ...
Yea, I do have to download for 32 bit and 64 bit...

 

[kado897]

FileHorse doesn't download the PE components. You have to do that from within Macrium when you create the recovery disk

 

[DavidE]

So, for a "pack-rat" like me i have to create the recovery media to be able to get the PE components ?
I don't want to create recovery media for all options that i might need someday, to help someone ...
I just want everything available, so i can create whatever is needed, when needed ...

 

[kado897]

You can chose which PE environment you want to create from within Macrium. 3.1, 4 or 5.

 

[groze]

Is Macrium Free Edition still available? the link brings me to a "page do not found" sort of message.

It is still available, here.

And they appear to have upgraded it to v5.3.7277 dated Feb 4, matching the final version of the non-free Standard release.

dsperber
Are you saying if you upgrade to 5.3.7277 it will no longer be free? You would have to pay for version 5.3.7277 to continue using it after so many days?

All,
If you choose the Windows 3.1 PE recover media that it is already included. I am using version number 5.3 build number 7220 Under help configure update checker you disable update checker.

 

[kado897]

5.3.7277 is still the last V5 update. The latest version is 6.0.476 which does not have a free version (yet?).

Whichever PE you chose you have to download it. That can be either using the MR download manager on installation or from within MR if you use the direct download provided by FileHorse.

 

[groze]

5.3.7277 is still the last V5 update. The latest version is 6.0.476 which does not have a free version (yet?).

Whichever PE you chose you have to download it. That can be either using the MR download manager on installation or from within MR if you use the direct download provided by FileHorse.

You are partially correct. It doesn't download if it can access those via hard drive. I wondered myself why 3.1 wasn't downloaded. Since I have Windows 7 installed only on one partition, Macrium reflect must of seen the files to create a Windows 7 repair disk on the computer. So it took those files instead and created the rescue media.

Window Resuce media 3.1
Created using the Windows AIK, this is a Windows 7 based PE environment which may work better on some legacy systems, or may be useful if drivers are not available for your Windows 8 hardware.

 

[dsperber]

Is Macrium Free Edition still available? the link brings me to a "page do not found" sort of message.

It is still available, here.

And they appear to have upgraded it to v5.3.7277 dated Feb 4, matching the final version of the non-free Standard release.

dsperber
Are you saying if you upgrade to 5.3.7277 it will no longer be free? You would have to pay for version 5.3.7277 to continue using it after so many days?

That is the official Macrium download page for the FREE version (it's actually hosted by CNet, but the link is from the official Macrium "free" page).

When I originally posted my info about the official release of v6 a few days ago in post #1790, the Macrium page said that the "free" version was still shown as 5.3.7109. So I thought that's what they were going to do, i.e. keep free at 7109 even though the final version of non-free Standard was 7727.

But now the "free" version on that page is shown as 7727, same as the last version of the non-free Standard version. So they obviously updated the page with this info from what it showed a few days back. Whether or not the program itself was really 7727 all along and they simply forgot to fix the page, or whether they decided to give out a free version of 7727, I don't know.

I only know that their "free" page right now shows 7727. If you download it that's presumably what you'll get... the free version of the product, and version 7727, same as the final non-free Standard version 7727 is. Of course you're not getting the non-free Standard version for free, you're just still getting the free version but it is version 7727 of the free product, same as the non-free product is also at 7727.

 

[kado897]

Whether they will release a free version of V6 I don't know. if I remember correctly it was some time after the release of the paid V5 that a free version was released.