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titleIntroduction

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, mounted

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with its own drive letter.

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It is also possible to mount an image within Macrium Reflect with the same outcome as 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.

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Note: The image is mounted as read only, unless you select to make it writable. This means that you cannot change the contents of the mounted drive but you can copy files from the mounted image or file/folder backup in Windows Explorer to your PC using Copy/Paste (or by dragging). You can also open files (such as MS Word documents) by double clicking.

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Individual Files and Folders can easily be recovered by using Copy and Paste.

If you mount an incremental or differential backup

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, the chosen folder must contain all the files required to load

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the image. Meaning an incremental backup requires all the previous files in the backup set to be present, and a differential backup requires the full backup to be present. For example, If your

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backup is split across multiple DVD's then it isn't possible to mount the backup.

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

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Note: If you have a File and Folder backup (not image backup) Macrium Reflect also has a wizard to restore selected files and/or folders. You must use the File and Folder restore wizard to restore files greater than 4 GB in size. These files cannot be restored by mounting your backup as described in this article. Please see Restoring a file and folder backup


 

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

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  1. Open a command prompt and change the directories as necessary so the path to reflect.exe is shown. 
    See Running an elevated command prompt.


    Complete the command line as follows:

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    reflect.exe ["Path to Image file"] [Add one or more switches]


    Note: 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:      

     -b

    		Browse Image, always needed to mount Image.
     -autoDo 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,n  If no drive letters are specified then the next available letters are used.

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    Note: To 'skip' mounting a partition use the Asterisk character instead of a drive letter


     -passUse for password protected Image files, add password in inverted commas. e.g. -pass "password"

     Note: If you do not use -auto you will be prompted with the Backup Selection dialog to assign the drive letters. 

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To mount an image and prompt for a drive letter:

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C:\Program Files\Macrium\Reflect>reflect.exe "J:\76FF71EBBB032A35-00-00.mrimg" -b

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To mount all partitions of an image using the next available drive letter(s):

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 C:\Program Files\Macrium\Reflect>reflect.exe "J:\76FF71EBBB032A35-00-00.mrimg" -b -auto

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To mount all partitions for the last image created in the current Windows session:

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C:\Program Files\Macrium\Reflect>reflect.exe "LAST_FILE_CREATED" -b -auto

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To mount all partitions in an image using drive letters p,q,r

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C:\Program Files\Macrium\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 using drive letters p,q,r where pwd is the password,(the password is case sensitive):

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C:\Program Files\Macrium\Reflect>reflect.exe "J:\76FF71EBBB032A35-00-00.mrimg" -b -auto -drives p,q,r -pass "pwd"

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

  2. Take the 'Restore' > 'Detach Image' menu option.

  3.  Select the drive letter you wish to unmount.

Using the CLI:

  1. Open a command prompt and change the directories directory as necessary so the path to reflect.exe is shown. 
    See  Running an elevated command prompt .                                    

  2. Complete the command line as follows: 

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    reflect.exe [drive letter to detach] [-u]

    (if no drive letter is included the switch -u will detach all temporary mounted drives).         

  3. Press Enter. 

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To Detach all temporary drives: 

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 C:\Program Files\Macrium\Reflect>reflect.exe -u

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To Detach Drive J only:

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C:\Program Files\Macrium\Reflect>reflect.exe J -u

        

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titleProblems mounting images
If you have a problem mounting your images, it is possible that the image mounting system driver has failed to load correctly. To resolve this issue it is recommended you reinstall Macrium Reflect. This problem can be caused by anti-virus software disabling features as a security precaution.