Macrium Reflect Boot Disk

Do I need to make a boot disk for each computer that has Reflect installed?

I have a mix of 7, 8.1 and 10.

Thanks.

Cy Burnot wrote:
Do I need to make a boot disk for each computer that has Reflect installed?

I have a mix of 7, 8.1 and 10.

When/As you are making the boot disk, you choose between 3 different
boot OS, linux, windows, and the Bart's PE mod before you actually burn
anything.

In that process, the wizard provides you with a version number and an
option to check for updates to the version.

You can exercise (not exorcise :-) the wizard for each of your versions
and see if the version for your preference is the same for each.

http://www.macrium.com/webhelp/start..._rescue_cd.asp Create a
bootable rescue CD (numerous screenshots)


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Mike Easter

On Fri, 6 Nov 2015 16:33:12 -0500, Cy Burnot
wrote:

Do I need to make a boot disk for each computer that has Reflect installed?

I have a mix of 7, 8.1 and 10.

Thanks.

I just installed Macrium Reflect 6 (over Version 5) on both my Win 7
Pro machines. Since each PC has different components that require
specific drivers, I made and tested 2 Rescue CD's made with Macrium
Reflect for each PC. That way I don't worry if they will boot and
work if I ever need them. Why take a chance?

DC

Mike Easter wrote on 11/6/2015 4:51 PM:
Cy Burnot wrote:
Do I need to make a boot disk for each computer that has Reflect installed?

I have a mix of 7, 8.1 and 10.

When/As you are making the boot disk, you choose between 3 different
boot OS, linux, windows, and the Bart's PE mod before you actually burn
anything.

If you click on "Change PE Version". :-)

Cy Burnot wrote:
Do I need to make a boot disk for each computer that has Reflect installed?

I have a mix of 7, 8.1 and 10.

Thanks.

The latest Macrium (6) may be better able to manage
the preparation of the WinPE boot disk.

In Macrium Reflect Free 5, you were kinda on your own
when it came to NIC drivers. If you expected to restore
from a Windows share somewhere, you needed a NIC
driver for that.

Macrium 6 may not necessarily have any arbitrary
NIC driver, but the preparation step may be
better able to warn you there is no NIC driver.

Using the WinPE5 download for Macrium, should support
USB3 out of the box. If you're happy restoring from
an external USB3 enclosure (which is what I do), then
one WinPE boot CD with no NIC driver is probably good
enough.

A prudent operator would boot their Macrium media
on each computer they wish to maintain, see if shares
are visible, see if the USB3 drive is visible, and so on.
You should do the testing before there is a disaster,
just to be sure.

*******

My new machine, no longer boots any arbitrary Linux OS
CD, so I don't consider the machine "trustworthy" when
it comes to untested boot media. Test the media, to be
absolutely sure it works. Many of the other computers
here, they eat just about any media I feed them. The
new machine is a bit more picky, and I've had some
Linux CDs do a black screen for my efforts. I am not
likely to have that problem, if using 2015 media in
testing. But my nice Knoppix 5.3.1 DVD (that does read-only
mounts of Windows partitions), no longer works.

Paul