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| This tutorial shows you the options available in Macrium Reflect to browse your images and file and folder backups in Windows Explorer. |
You can Browse or Explore an image by mounting the image file in Windows Explorer. This makes the backed up data appear as a drive in Windows Explorer that you can access , just like any other drive, it is mounted in its own drive letter. The This drive letter allocated is temporary and can be removed, it is not visible if Windows is restarted.
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It is also possible to mount an image within Macrium Reflect with the same outcome as from with in Reflect. The outcome is exactly the same as doing so from Windows Explorer. If you have a file/folder backup (not image backup) Macrium Reflect has a wizard to restore selected files and/or folders to a place of your choosing.
By mounting and browsing images you gain access to images that are created on other PCs and if, when mounting an image, you chose the option Make writeable you are able to recover some images without first recovering their files, saving time.
Note: The image is mounted as read only, unless you select to make it writeable. This means that you cannot change the contents of the mounted drive but you can copy files from the mounted image Image or file/folder backup in Windows Explorer to your PC using Copy/Paste (or by dragging Drag and Drop). You can also open files (such as MS Word WORD documents) by double clicking.
Before you begin:
(If you have an incremental or differential backup set, the chosen folder must contain all a file/folder backup (not Image backup) there is also a wizard in Macrium Reflect to restore selected files and/or folders to a place of your choosing).
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| This means that an incremental backup requires the full backup set to be present, and a differential backup |
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| If your image is split across multiple DVD's then it isn't possible to mount the image. |
There are several ways to mount / unmount an image:
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Mounting an image in Windows Explorer
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Using Windows Explorer
1. Navigate to the location of the image you wish to mount.
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Right click
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and select Explore
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In the next dialog check the partition you wish to mount
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In this
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tutorial, the image only contains one partition.
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You can also select which
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drive letter you would like to be assigned.
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Click OK
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The option 'Enable access to restricted
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folders' will mount the image with full
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NTFS
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access rights to all folders in the image. This
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enables you
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to fully browse images that were created on another PC
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where otherwise some folders
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may be inaccessible due to NTFS security restrictions.
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The option 'Make writable
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' will make the mounted file system temporarily writable. This is useful
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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
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an explorer window.
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Using Macrium
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1. In the main window of Macrium Reflect, select the 'Restore' tab as shown in red below.
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2. Select the image you wish to mount and then click the 'Browse Image' link
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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)
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To mount an
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Image using the Macrium Reflect CLI:
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(i) Open Command Prompt and change directories as necessary so the path to reflect.exe is shown.
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(ii) Complete the command line as follows:
reflect.exe ["Path to Image file"] [Add one or more
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switches]
(iii) Press Enter/Return key.
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Instead of inserting "Path to Image file" you can also replace it with "LAST_FILE_CREATED" if you want the last Image created in the current Windows session to be mounted.
Available CLI switches:
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| -b | Browse Image, always needed to mount Image. |
| -auto | Do not show the 'Backup Selection' dialog and automatically mount all partitions in the image file. |
| -drives | A comma separated list of drive letters to use for the mounted image eg; -drives m, |
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| -pass | Use for password protected Image files, add password in inverted commas. e.g. -pass "password" |
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Some examples of using the CLI to mount images:
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To mount an image Image and prompt for a drive letter:
C:\Program Files\Macrium\Reflect>reflect.exe "J:\76FF71EBBB032A35-00-00.mrimg" -b
To mount all partitions of an image Image using the next available drive letter(s):
C:\Program Files\Macrium\Reflect>reflect.exe "J:\76FF71EBBB032A35-00-00.mrimg" -b -auto
To mount all partitions for the last image Image created in the current Windows session:
C:\Program Files\Macrium\Reflect>reflect.exe "LAST_FILE_CREATED" -b -auto auto
To mount all partitions in an image Image using drive letters p,q,r
C:\Program Files\Macrium\Reflect>reflect.exe "J:\76FF71EBBB032A35-00-00.mrimg" -b -auto -drives p,q,r
To mount all partitions in a password protected image Image using drive letters p,q,r where 'pwd' is the password,(the password is case sensitive):
C:\Program Files\Macrium\Reflect>reflect.exe "J:\76FF71EBBB032A35-00-00.mrimg" -b -auto -drives p,q,r -pass "pwd"
Unmounting a temporary mounted drive
Using Windows Explorer:
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To Detach a temporary mounted drive using
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Macrium Reflect
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The image will be removed.
Using Macrium Reflect:
- In the Macrium Reflect application, select Restore in the top menu.
Select Detatch Image.
Select the drive letter you wish to unmount.
Using the CLI:
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(i) Open Command Prompt and change
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directories as necessary so the path to reflect.exe is shown.
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(ii) Complete the command line as follows:
reflect.exe[drive letter to detach] [-u]
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If no drive letter is included the switch '-u' will detach all temporary mounted drives
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(iii) Press Enter/Return.
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Examples of using CLI to unmount an image:
To Detach all temporary drives:
C:\Program Files\Macrium\Reflect>reflect.exe -u
To Detach Drive J only:
C:\Program Files\Macrium\Reflect>reflect.exe J -u
Problems mounting images
If you have a problem mounting your images, it is possible that the psmounter has failed. To resolve this issue it is recommended to reinstall Macrium Reflect. This problem can be caused by anti-virus software disabling such features as a security precaution.