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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. |
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By mounting image files in Windows Explorer you can browse or explore an image and access all the files in a backup. The backed up data appears as a temporary drive in Windows Explorer that you can access, just like any other drive, |
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mounted |
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with its own drive letter. |
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The folder chosen must contain ALL of Individual Files and Folders can easily be recovered by using Copy and Paste. If you mount an incremental or differential backup, the chosen folder must contain all the files required to load anthe image. This means that anMeaning an incremental backup requires all the fullprevious files in the backup set to be present, and a differential backup required the most recent differential and the firstrequires the full backup to be present. For example, If your imagebackup is split across multiple DVD's then it isn't possible to mount the imagebackup. |
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If you restart Windows, all temporary mounted Images are also detached. |
Using Windows Explorer
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There are several ways to mount / unmount an image:
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See also: Browsing Linux EXT File System Images
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Mounting an image in Windows Explorer
Navigate to the location of the image you wish to mount.
Right click the image file and select Explore image.
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Select the partition you wish to mount and Click OK.
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example, the image only contains one partition.
You can also select which
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Drive Letter you would like to be assigned.
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The option
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Enable access to restricted
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folders mounts the image with full NTFS access rights to all folders in the image. This
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means you
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can browse images
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created on another PC
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without having to grant NTFS permissions.
The option
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Make writable
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makes the mounted file system temporarily writable. This is useful
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when accessing 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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Info Note: Changes made to the mounted file system are temporary and
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are discarded when the image is unmounted.
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You can now navigate through the image in
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Windows Explorer.
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Using Macrium
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to mount an image
In the main window of Macrium Reflect, select
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Restore
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- Select the image you wish to mount
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- then click the
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- Browse Image
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- link
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To Detach a temporary mounted drive using Windows Explorer
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To Detach a temporary mounted drive using Macrium Reflect
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Using Macrium Reflect Command Line Interface (CLI)
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to mount an
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image
Open a command prompt and change the directories as necessary so the path to
reflect.exe
is shown.
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See Running an elevated command prompt.
Complete the command line as follows:
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Code Block language text theme FadeToGrey reflect.exe ["Path to Image file"] [Add one or more switches]
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Note: Instead of inserting
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Path to Image file
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you can also replace it with
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LAST_FILE_CREATED
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if you want the last Image created in the current Windows session to be mounted.
Available CLI switches:-b
Browse Image, always needed to mount Image. -auto
Do not show the
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Backup Selection
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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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n If no drive letters are specified then the next available letters are used.
Info Note: To 'skip' mounting a partition use the Asterisk character instead of a drive letter -pass
Use for password protected Image files, add password in inverted commas. e.g. -pass "password"
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Note: If you do not use -auto you will be prompted with the
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Backup Selection
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dialog to assign the drive letters.
Some examples of using the CLI to mount images:
To mount an Image image and prompt for a drive letter:
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C:\Program Files\Macrium\ |
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Reflect>reflect.exe "J:\76FF71EBBB032A35-00-00.mrimg" -b |
To mount all partitions of an Image image using the next available drive letter(s):
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C:\Program Files\Macrium\ |
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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:
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C:\Program Files\Macrium\ |
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Reflect>reflect.exe "LAST_FILE_CREATED" -b -auto |
To mount all partitions in an Image image using drive letters p,q,r
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C:\Program Files\Macrium\ |
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Reflect>reflect.exe "J:\76FF71EBBB032A35-00-00.mrimg" -b -auto -drives p,q,r |
To mount the third partiton only using drive letter 'R'
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C:\Program Files\Macrium\Reflect>reflect.exe "J:\76FF71EBBB032A35-00-00.mrimg" -b -auto -drives *,*,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):
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Reflect>reflect.exe "J:\76FF71EBBB032A35-00-00.mrimg" -b -auto -drives p,q,r -pass "pwd" |
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Unmounting a temporary mounted drive
Using Windows Explorer:
- To detach a temporary mounted drive using Windows Explorer, right click the drive you wish to unmount.
Scroll to Macrium Reflect, click Unmount Macrium Image.
Using Macrium Reflect:
- In the Macrium Reflect application, select Restore in the top menu.
Take the 'Restore' > 'Detach Image' menu option.
Select the drive letter you wish to unmount.
Using the CLI: (i) Open Command Prompt
Open a command prompt and change
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the directory as necessary so the path to
reflect.exe
is shown.
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Complete the command line as follows:
Code Block language text theme FadeToGrey reflect.exe [drive letter to detach] [-u]
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(if no drive letter is included the switch
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-u
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will detach all temporary mounted drives).
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Press Enter
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Examples of using CLI to unmount an image:
To Detach all temporary drives:
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C:\Program Files\Macrium\ |
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Reflect>reflect.exe -u |
To Detach Drive J only:
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C:\Program Files\Macrium\ |
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Reflect>reflect.exe J -u |
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Info | ||
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If you have a problem mounting your images, it is possible that the |
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image mounting system driver has failed to load correctly. To resolve this issue it is recommended |
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you reinstall Macrium Reflect. This problem can be caused by anti-virus software disabling |
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features as a security precaution. |