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If you restart Windows, all temporary mounted Images are also detached.

Using Windows Explorer

1.  Navigate to the location of the image you wish to mount. Right click and select Explore



2.  In the next dialog check the partition you wish to mount. In this tutorial, the image only contains one partition. You can also select which drive letter you would like to be assigned. Click OK



The option 'Enable access to restricted folders' will mount the image with full NTFS access rights to all folders in the image. This enables you to fully browse images that were created on another PC where otherwise some folders may be inaccessible due to NTFS security restrictions.

The option 'Make writable' will make the mounted file system temporarily writable. This is useful to access files in the image where the opening application is required to write to the file.  For example, Microsoft Virtual Hard Disk (.vhdx) files can be mounted and files in the mounted backup can be recovered without having to restore the .vhdx file first.

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3. You can now navigate through the image in an explorer window.

Using Macrium

1.  In the main window of Macrium Reflect, select the 'Restore' tab as shown in red below.



2.  Select the image you wish to mount and then click the 'Browse Image' link

3.  Follow the instructions from step 2 above.

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To Detach a temporary mounted drive using Windows Explorer

1.  To detach a temporary mounted drive using Windows Explorer, right click on the drive you with to unmount




2.  Click 'Unmount Macrium Image'

3.  The image will be removed

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To Detach a temporary mounted drive using Macrium Reflect

 1.  In the Macrium Reflect application, select 'Restore' in the menu.





2.  Select 'Detach Image' and when prompted, select the drive letter you wish to unmount.

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Using the Command Line Interface (CLI)

To mount an Image using the Macrium Reflect CLI:

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