Cannot create Macrium Reflect Rescue Disk

Using Macrium Reflect 6.3.

I get "An error occurred extracting the Macrium Reflect Windows PE files."

What do I do next?

On 08/11/2018 01:46, Alek wrote:

What do I do next?

You can ask a technician based in Bangalore or Hyderabad. Let us know
if you want some contact details.



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On 11/07/2018 7:46 PM, Alek wrote:
Using Macrium Reflect 6.3.

I get "An error occurred extracting the Macrium Reflect Windows PE files."

What do I do next?


Odd that this came up as I just made myself today a new DVD and USB
stick recovery media using a fresh download of Free version 7.2.3825
without any problems of any kind, Ran and verified both the DVD and USB
stick and they both worked Fine.
I can only suggest that you might try this newer version, I still have
copies of 6.3 but the USB sometimes fails to load so I deleted it and
used a new stick.

Rene

Alek wrote:

An error occurred extracting the Macrium Reflect Windows PE files

Could be the previously download WinPE archive is corrupt. If you don't
get a prompt to re-download the file, delete the existing one.

C:\ProgramData\Macrium\Reflect\Windows AIK

Delete whatever is under there and have Macrium re-download the WAIK
file from Microsoft. As I recall, Macrium saves the WAIK image under:

C:\Boot\macrium\WAIKFiles

However, that might be for the boot image used when you select to load
Macrium from the Windows boot-time menu. When I run "bcdedit" in a
command shell, one of the boot sources is a .wim (Windows Imaging file)
under the above path.

http://reflect.macrium.com/help/v5/h...ironment.ht m

That is for Reflect v5. I don't see an option to force a re-download,
so my guess is you have to delete the previously WAIK file to make
Reflect retrieve a new one.

https://knowledgebase.macrium.com/di...g+rescue+media

v7 has a force rebuild. You need a .wim file to have a WinPE to copy to
the rescue target. Alas, didn't find the manual for v6. Their
"Support" link on their home page takes me to pages about 7.2. I didn't
bother to dig through web.archive.org looking for old pages that
described v6. I had to do a google search on "macrium reflect 6
knowledgebase" and found:

https://knowledgebase.macrium.com/di...w+in+Version+6

There's a link there saying it points to the v6 manual. If it's the WIM
file that's corrupt, you could trying deleting the Macrium rescue image
and create it again. You didn't say from where you were trying to load
the WinPE boot image (that Reflect added itself). If it's a boot-time
menu choice, use Reflect's menu to delete the WinPE boot image as a
choice. In v7, I'd go to the Other Tasks menu, select "Add recovery
boot menu option", and select None (no WIM boot for Reflect's WinPE).
Reboot to make the boot-time option is gone and then use the same menu
in Reflect to create a new boot image. If you're booting from a disc
(CD or DVD) or a flash drive, use a new disc (or erase a rewritable one)
or format the USB flash drive and have Reflect put a new boot image on
it.

Also see:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/win...ed/adk-install

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On 08/11/2018 01:46, Alek wrote:

What do I do next?

You can ask a technician based in Bangalore or Hyderabad. Let us know
if you want some contact details.



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Alek wrote:
Using Macrium Reflect 6.3.

I get "An error occurred extracting the Macrium Reflect Windows PE files."

What do I do next?

Uninstall, re-download, then re-install.

Look for waiklog.txt and see what broke.

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What happens sometimes, is you select too old a
version of WinPE (four versions are available),
and the Microsoft server with the files has
some sorta problem with the old version.

Even if you were to keep your current installation,
start the Rescue media process again, *change*
the WinPE version to one not used before, the
download of new .cab files and squashing of those
into a ZIP, might work better.

The waiklog.txt will serve as inspiration, in terms
of how the process works. It will show the names of
some of the files it is downloading.

I tried to interfere with the process one day (like,
fix stuff), and it's rather intolerant of people
meddling with it. You can't stage files to make it
pick up where it left off. It likes to delete
stuff, rather than use things you might try to
hand to it.

Paul

Paul wrote:

Alek wrote:

Using Macrium Reflect 6.3.

I get "An error occurred extracting the Macrium Reflect Windows
PE files."

What do I do next?

Uninstall, re-download, then re-install.

Look for waiklog.txt and see what broke.

*******

What happens sometimes, is you select too old a version of WinPE
(four versions are available), and the Microsoft server with the
files has some sorta problem with the old version.

Even if you were to keep your current installation, start the
Rescue media process again, *change* the WinPE version to one not
used before, the download of new .cab files and squashing of those
into a ZIP, might work better.

The waiklog.txt will serve as inspiration, in terms of how the
process works. It will show the names of some of the files it is
downloading.

I tried to interfere with the process one day (like, fix stuff),
and it's rather intolerant of people meddling with it. You can't
stage files to make it pick up where it left off. It likes to
delete stuff, rather than use things you might try to hand to it.

Agreed. I don't change any settings when making the rescue media.
Its single purpose is to make backup copies of everything necessary
to restore Windows.