R.Wieser wrote:
John Gilliver,

Could you tell me where you got that CD image of macrium (reflect ?) from ?

I just visited the macrium website, but it looks like all I can download is
a web-installer. Which is something I rather detest, as I like to have
offline installable versions of the software I'm using.

Also, which version of it are you using (current downloadable version is 7)
?

Regards,
Rudy Wieser

You can always detest things.

However, in this case, the process is two steps.
And you can see some mild justification for the design.

Macrium ------ Gives a folder with ----- Double click EXE.
Stub Downloader two files. Carry to If it sees the WinPE Kit
a second PC for next to it, then it will
1) Download EXE installation if you want. install it.
2) Download WinPE Kit Installs anytime.

If you use the stub to just download the 40-60MB EXE,
then Macrium can be installed without a WinPE kit. However,
to make the bootable emergency CD, requires at least one
WinPE kit be on disc. You can host more than one copy
of WinPE within your Macrium install (but that would
be a bit unusual).

The Stub Downloader has a menu that allows selection
of a WinPE kit. I recommend a WinPE5 (win8) or WinPE10 (win10)
kit, as both of those have built-in USB3 support. I don't
know if there's really a good reason for using either of the
other WinPE kits.

The WinPE kit is "assembled" by the Stub. There are
actually a number of separate files it handles, and
it zips up the kit after it is finished processing
the items.

To some extent, that stub makes sense, because it's
a pre-processor. I think the EXE downloads from a Macrium
server, while WinPE components are coming from some
Microsoft CDN. I don't understand the business relationship
that would have to exist between Macrium and Microsoft,
like what they're paying for all those WinPE downloads,
how the downloads are counted or the like. Since Reflect
Free is downloading WinPE kits, there must have been
a metric ton of downloads of WinPE materials, which
are over 500MB of downloads for each kit.

After Macrium is installed, you can also request and
download a WinPE kit at that time. So you don't
have to select and download a WinPE right away.

Paul