Macrium Reflect™ Information

  • Live imaging with Microsoft Volume Shadow copy Service

    No need to shut down Windows to create a complete disk image of your PC.

  • Simple step by step operation

    Image and Restore using intuitive wizards and interfaces.

  • Restore to new hardware
    New Feature

    Includes Macrium ReDeploy™ to move Windows to a new or virtual PC.
    Including Windows Server!

  • Scripting

    Advanced users can use the VBScript scripting language for complex backup scenarios.

  • Restore individual files and folders

    Create a 'Virtual' drive in Windows Explorer and recover selected files and directories using simple copy and paste operations.

  • Optimize

    You can create full, differential or incremental images to optimize backup speed and disk space requirements.

  • Windows PE 3.1
    New Feature

    Includes the latest Microsoft Windows Recovery Environment for maximum hardware compatibility and effortless restore.

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v5: Command line arguments
Tuesday, January 24, 2012

It is possible run reflect.exe from the command line or VB script. A number of command line arguments allow the user flexibility to perform a number of actions. There are three main usage areas as follows: Running a backup Mounting an image Unmounting ...

Understanding Disk encryption and Macrium Reflect
Monday, January 23, 2012

Disk encryption software is provided by Microsoft under the name Bitlocker. Various third party tools, such as TrueCrypt, McAfee SafeBoot and PGP Whole Disk Encryption offer similar functionality. You can choose to encrypt your data in the following ways. 1) System disk/...

Backup Aborted! - Unable to lock volume
Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Error Error: Backup aborted! - Unable to lock <volume>, Please reboot and retry Description This error can be generated during a backup operation when VSS fails to create a snapshot and the alternate Para...

Macrium Reflect Support, Updates and Upgrades
Monday, January 16, 2012

Macrium Software takes customer support seriously and this article describes duration and nature of that support. The support for the current version 5 is the same as that for the previous version 4. There has been no downgrading of support, we pride ourselves on the su...

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