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- Macrium Reflect v6 User Guide
- Introduction to Macrium Reflect
- Macrium Reflect Minimum System Requirements
- Macrium Reflect Feature Comparison Chart
- Licensing Policy
- New in Version 6
- New in Macrium Reflect 7.1
- Macrium Reflect Quick Start
- Windows Explorer shell integration
- Reviewing your backup history
- Removing your License key when Upgrading your PC
- What is VSS, how does it work and why do we use it?
- Rapid Delta Clone - RDC
- Rapid Delta Restore - RDR
- Backup, imaging and cloning
- Creating a backup image of your computer, drive or partitions
- Manually running a job from a configured XML backup definition
- How backup sets are created and maintained
- Backing up files and folders
- Cloning a disk
- Backing up Microsoft Exchange databases
- Backing up MS SQL Databases
- Differential and incremental disk images
- Creating desktop shortcuts for full, incremental and differential backups
- Checking VSS events when backups fail
- Alternative Locations For Backups
- Advanced Options
- Verifying image and backup files
- How to backup Hyper-V Cluster Shared Volumes
- Restoring and browsing
- Restoring an image from within Windows
- Understanding partition alignment
- Browsing Macrium Reflect images and backups in Windows Explorer
- Restoring a file and folder backup
- Restoring MS SQL
- Restoring MS Exchange databases
- Restoring an MBR System image to UEFI/GPT
- Restoring a UEFI/GPT System image to MBR
- Bare metal restore of a Dynamic disk system
- Drive letters assigned to restored or cloned partitions
- Restore to VHD
- Scheduling and Retention rules
- The Macrium Rescue Environment
- Creating rescue media
- Adding a Boot Menu option for system Image recovery
- Preparing a USB stick for Windows PE
- Creating a bootable Windows PE USB stick
- Accessing network shares in Windows PE
- Technicians portable application support
- Adding device drivers to Windows PE
- About Adding Drivers to WinPE Rescue Media
- Fixing Windows boot problems
- Updating rescue media to include additional hardware drivers
- Adding iSCSI support to Windows PE
- Adding BitLocker support to Windows PE
- Restoring an image from within the Rescue Media
- Macrium Image Guardian
- Macrium Changed Block Tracker
- Macrium viBoot
- Re-deploying to new hardware
- Macrium Reflect Server Plus for Exchange and SQL
- Command line operations with Macrium Reflect
- Generating scripts and batch files
- Backup Folder Synchronization
- Macrium Reflect Default settings
- Standalone backup set consolidation
- Converting a Physical machine to Virtual Machine
- Automatic System Restore
- Logging file changes for Incremental and Differential Images
- Introduction to Macrium Reflect
- Troubleshooting
- Running an elevated command prompt
- Anti-virus, Registry cleaners and uninstallers
- Backup aborted! - Folder not found
- Backup aborted! - None of the specified backup locations could be written to
- Logon failure: unknown user name or bad password
- Backup aborted! - Write operation failed - Insufficient system resources ...
- Backup aborted! - Write operation failed - The request could not be performed because of an I/O device error
- BAD_POOL_HEADER BSOD during backup on Windows XP or 2003
- Can't see SQL Instances in Login Window
- Can I boot Machine A with Windows PE rescue media created on Machine B
- Can I transfer my programs and files to a new computer
- Confirming that Macrium download is genuine
- Diagnostic information
- Driver load issues in WinPE
- Error 0x8007052e - Scheduled task restrictions with Windows Vista Starter and Home Editions
- Error 1117 - Backup aborted
- Event 513 errors in Windows 8.1/10
- Hardware: Lenovo Preboot Issue
- Disk boot failure, insert system disk and press Enter
- Troubleshooting Macrium Reflect startup problems
- Macrium Reflect and RAID systems
- Mapped network shares not visible in Macrium Reflect when UAC is enabled
- Message "Not all partitions copied. Insufficient space"
- My CD/DVD Rescue Media will not boot.
- Out of Memory error during File and Folder backup
- Out of memory error on 32-bit systems
- Out of Memory Error
- ReDeploy Troubleshooting Guide
- Resolving network issues in Windows PE
- Restore View Image Load Errors
- The error "Not all files have been retrieved" when downloading Windows PE - caused by BitDefender Antivirus
- Troubleshooting image browsing problems in Macrium Reflect.
- Troubleshooting installer issues
- Unable to read from disk - Error Code 121 - The semaphore timeout period has expired.
- Unable to re-join a restored machine to an AD domain
- Understanding and resolving backup and restore performance issues
- Understanding Image Verification Failures
- Incompatible Disk Selected
- Internet connection problems when downloading
- BSOD MULTIPLE_IRP_COMPLETE_REQUESTS when creating rescue CD
- Troubleshooting Microsoft VSS errors
- Identifying, diagnosing and reporting VSS errors
- Selected writer 'Microsoft Hyper-V VSS Writer' is in failed state
- 'SPSearch4 VSS Writer' is in failed state! (Result Code: 0x8000ffff)
- VSS Error: 0x8004230F
- VSS Error: 0x80042318 - Failed to Create Volume Snapshot
- VSS Error: 0x80042317: Failed to Create Volume Snapshot
- VSS Error: 0x8004231f - Failed to Create Volume Snapshot
- VSS Error - Backup aborted! - Failed To Create Volume Snapshot. Result Code: 0x8004230c
- VSS Error - ERROR: Selected writer 'Dhcp Jet Writer' is in failed state!
- VSS Error - ERROR: Selected writer 'NTDS' is in failed state!
- VSS Result Code 0x8004230f with Event ID 12293 on Windows Server 2008 R2 without BitLocker
- VSS fails due to disks with a non-standard sector size
- VSS Fails due to modification by 3rd party software
- VSS Error:0x8000ffff - Backup aborted! - Failed To Create Volume Snapshot.
- VSS Error: 0x800423f3 - Selected writer 'WMI Writer' is in failed state!
- VSS Error: 0x80042306 - VSS_E_PROVIDER_VETO - Volume Shadow Copy Error
- VSS Error - Selected writer 'Registry Writer' is in failed state!
- VSS error: VSS_E_SNAPSHOT_SET_IN_PROGRESS
- VSS Error - 8193 Unexpected error calling routine ConvertStringSidToSid
- Windows 8/Server 2012 Network Connection Issues under WinPE
- Windows becomes unresponsive when creating a disk image
- Windows Update (and other Windows Features) not working after clone to Advanced Format disk
- Removing a drive letter from the MS System Reserved partition
- Locating missing disks or drives
- Excluding disks when Macrium Reflect starts up
- Troubleshooting USB rescue media
- Incremental or differential specified but no backup set to append to.
- Imaging disks with bad sectors
- Running DiskRestore from Windows PE
- Stopping the SQL Server service automatically when backing up
- Can I use Macrium Reflect to move my installed software to a new machine
- Backing up non-VSS aware databases
- Reparse points in Disk Images
- Protection Strategies Against Ransomware
- Access Denied error when creating a scheduled task
- Understanding Disk IDs
- Backup aborted! - Unable to lock volume
- Scheduled task save failed: The system cannot find the path specified
- How to check the status of scheduled backups
- Using Gmail SMTP Server for sending backup notification emails
- Macrium Reflect Explorer shell extensions not available after a Windows 10 in-place upgrade
- VSS hangs during creating volume snapshot phase
- Windows Explorer shell extensions missing
- Why a Cloned or Restored file system has less used space than the source
- Windows PE build error: "A required privilege is not held by the client"
- How to add a user to the 'Administrators' group
- How to disable the backup notification dialog
- VSS Warning EventID: 8230
- Windows 10 Notifications - Anniversary Update
- Executing a VBScript file opens Windows Notepad
- How to copy Encrypted File System (EFS) files from a mounted disk image
- How to create a Rescue Media ISO image file
- Windows 10 Anniversary Update issues
- Windows won't start after upgrading to Macrium Reflect v7
- Very slow File and Folder backups
- Windows PE download failure with SonicWALL Firewall
- PC won't wake from Sleep to run a backup
- Scheduled task last status error: 0x800710E0
- Backup aborted! - Unable to read from disk - Error Code 2 - The system cannot find the file specified
- Error 0x80070510 when deleting backup files
- BitLocker Restore/Clone Outcomes
- Restore failed - Write failed - Permission denied WriteFilemSystemData failed
- Windows 10 Notifications - 1709 Fall Creators Update
- How to allow your PC to Sleep during a backup
- Network Share Persistence
- XML validation error
- Linux ext file systems can show a larger used and total space in Macrium Reflect
- Windows Insider Preview 17063 - 17074 BSOD
- Sending backup log output to a text file in PowerShell
- How to exclude files from a Disk Image
- Windows 7 32 bit - pagefault_in_non-paged_area pssnap.sys
- Corrupt Incremental or Differential Image Files
- Scheduled Tasks Error 0x40010004