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WinPE burn new cd

stavrich — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 14:51:28 +0000

My winPe rescue cd is damaged. I have the WinPEInstall.exe file on my PC which i run and reports that it was succesful.

My problem now is how to create a bootable cd - I cannot create it from within Macrium, it reports that I have the file and I should use it to burn the cd.

What do i need to do now.

Many thanks

Updating installs to a different drive

jolly4269 — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 12:54:57 +0000

I just updated to build 2525 from 2409, which was installed on my drive F:.
The update process removed the old version and installed the new one on drive C: in the 'Program Files' folder (which i hate), thus rendering all scheduled reflect-tasks invalid.

How can I avoid this behavior on the next update?

Regards and thanks for the otherwise great program!

read error - permission denied

Iluvatar — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 21:55:12 +0000

There are 2 replies, with the last one on March 19 2010 at 21:55:12 by Iluvatar
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Hi Nick,

The image is stored on the same DVD (DVD+RW) that was created during the backup process.

Regards
MD

An error whilst creating image

Ernst-Emil — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 17:17:52 +0000

There are 17 replies, with the last one on March 19 2010 at 17:17:52 by Ernst-Emil
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I´m sorry I can´t chek that right now as I dellivered the PC´s to the owner.
However, maybe I should have tryed at first, I reinstalled an that solved the problem.

Strange though, because the two systems are exact the same.

But reinstall worked for me.

Have a great day

Ernst-Emil
Denmark

Is this possible?

Diazruanova — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 17:13:30 +0000

There are 7 replies, with the last one on March 19 2010 at 17:13:30 by Diazruanova
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Now I got it [:D]

Thank you very much

Regards

Enrique Diazruanova

Restore an image to virtual machine

kewlbreez — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 23:34:10 +0000

There are 9 replies, with the last one on March 18 2010 at 23:34:10 by kewlbreez
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I'm just curious. I tried this with a couple of images and got errors trying to boot. I suspect for this to work you need to image from a bootable OS sitting as the only partition on the HD?

Either that or it's because I have a fake Raid controller on the host machine. Although when I tried making a VM with VirtualBox using an XP install CD, that worked. But who wants to sit around for a week installing apps yet again?

There really needs to be some indirection built into these PCs so a user can specify an alias as the drive location for system and programs. Then you could just paste the whole shooting match in and it should boot and run. This drive X: crap is for the birds!!

Exploring images slows down my computer

jondaman21 — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 18:07:05 +0000

There are 2 replies, with the last one on March 18 2010 at 18:07:05 by jondaman21
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Fair enough. The RAM usage may not itself be the problem. But my system does slow down considerably after a file transfer has been going on a few minutes and that means that I can't comfortably be copying something in the background.

incremental backup: list included files ?

Nick — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 17:02:04 +0000

There are 1 replies, with the last one on March 18 2010 at 17:02:04 by Nick
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Hi

Disk images are created at file system cluster level and a list of affected files isn't available I'm afraid.

Kind Regards

Nick - Macrium Support

Version 5?

Antitoon — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 15:10:06 +0000

There are 17 replies, with the last one on March 18 2010 at 15:10:06 by Antitoon
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Agreed with wabsys. Reflect is a rock solid product, and a new version of it would be great, but everyhing looks silent... What a pity... However it's not yet too late.[:)]

Error Code 121

SteveB — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 21:00:10 +0000

There are 1 replies, with the last one on March 17 2010 at 21:00:10 by SteveB
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Hi

Try running chkdsk /r from a dos 'command prompt'
With Vista you will have to run chkdsk as administrator (right click on command prompt and select run as administrator).
see http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/chkdsk.mspx?mfr=true
Hope this helps

Steve - Macrium Support

others Languages and Windows 7 support

abusimbal — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 16:28:49 +0000

There are 3 replies, with the last one on March 17 2010 at 16:28:49 by abusimbal
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Indeed additional languages would be very good.
Especially to expand Macrium Reflect to new markets.

Change SID?

john.p — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:51:05 +0000

There are 1 replies, with the last one on March 17 2010 at 15:51:05 by john.p
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Hi,

No. It turns out the Machine SID's always remain local to the machine. Therefore there is no issue with two machines with the same SID co-existing on the same network. Read more here.
http://blogs.technet.com/markrussinovich/archive/2009/11/03/3291024.aspx

Please be aware that, currently, a reflect licence applies to a single PC. For example, if you were using the reflect restore process to deploy OS's on multiple PC's, you would need a licence for each 'restored' PC.

Kind Regards
John - Macrium Support

System Restore Point

lagunasrfr — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:19:17 +0000

There are 2 replies, with the last one on March 17 2010 at 14:19:17 by lagunasrfr
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Thanks Nick,

Entries don't disappear until they drop off as part of "shadow storage full" process.

Here's a great article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_Copy describing VSS shadow storage. I think what it is saying in part is that these temporary images are made so that backup can use them as a true point-in-time backup, not being affected by files that might change during backup.

create a image with rescue CD

Nick — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 10:12:32 +0000

There are 1 replies, with the last one on March 17 2010 at 10:12:32 by Nick
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Hi

You can create an image with the Windows PE rescue CD.

Kind Regards

Nick - Macrium Support

Failure, but suggested repair doesn't work

anewguy — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 07:38:48 +0000

There are 4 replies, with the last one on March 17 2010 at 07:38:48 by anewguy
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I got everything working as needed now thanks to your help!

I have a small code contribution if anyone wants it:

- a C program which builds the XML for a backup and also builds
a .bat file to perform the backup

- .bat file that runs the program and calls the built .bat file

The drive id and partition number are hard coded in the program, but it's a very simple change (I used Msys with gcc to compile it in Windows). All of the other paths are variables set at the front of the main .bat file. A logfile is generated.

Thanks again!
Dave

Changes to an existing scheduled data backup?

Gert — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 19:07:23 +0000

There are 5 replies, with the last one on March 16 2010 at 19:07:23 by Gert
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Hi Nick,

thank's for your rapid reply. I already assumed so. It would be very helpful if perhaps in one of your future versions such a modification would be possible.

Besides that - Macrium Reflect is great and works absolutely reliable.

Best wishes from Germany

Gert

WinPE drivers

dlross — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 16:44:36 +0000

There are 9 replies, with the last one on March 16 2010 at 16:44:36 by dlross
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Thanks Nick, I'll give this a try.

2008 scheduled backup notifications

john.p — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 14:43:08 +0000

There are 10 replies, with the last one on March 16 2010 at 14:43:08 by john.p
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Sorry to hear you are having problems. We can't currently recreate the problem.

To diagnose what is going on, it would be really helpful if you could add some error checking to your vbscript.

Could you locate the line in your vbs file, in the SendEmail function, that reads

objMessage.Send

And modify it so that it looks like this ...

On Error Resume Next 'trap CDO errors
objMessage.Send
LogError
On Error goto 0 'cancel On Error

And add this to the end of your script. Note that you will need to insert the location of your vbs files in place of . Typically this will be something like C:\Users\\Documents\Reflect where is your user name.

'******************************************************************************
'* Sub:     LogError
'*
'* Purpose: Reports errors.
'*
'* Input:   None
'* Output:  None
'*
'******************************************************************************
Sub LogError
    Dim strLogFileName
    Dim objFS, objNewFile
    If Err <> 0 Then
	    strLogFileName = "\errorlog-" & Year(Date) & "-" & Month(Date) & "-" & Day(Date) & " " & Hour(Time) & "." & Minute(Time) & "." & Second(Time) & ".txt"
	    Set objFS = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
	    Set objNewFile = objFS.OpenTextFile(strLogFileName , 8, true)
        objNewFile.WriteLine "Error:      : " & Err
        objNewFile.WriteLine "Error (hex) : 0x" & Hex(Err)
        objNewFile.WriteLine "Source      : " & Err.Source
        objNewFile.WriteLine "Description : " & Err.Description
        Err.Clear
	    objNewFile.Close
	    set objFS = nothing
    End If
End Sub

Then, the next time an email send fails, you will find an error log file in titled errorlog-.txt.log

Once you see such a file, could you send it to support(at)macrium.com or paste the contents into this thread. Hopefully, then we can get to the bottom of your problem.

Kind Regards
John - Macrium Support

Expose SMTP authentication settings

Nick — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 12:14:16 +0000

There are 1 replies, with the last one on March 16 2010 at 12:14:16 by Nick
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Hi

Thanks for your comments.

Kind Regards

Nick - Macrium Support

Licence transfer

Nick — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 12:12:39 +0000

There are 1 replies, with the last one on March 16 2010 at 12:12:39 by Nick
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Hi Guy

I've sent you a PM.

Kind Regards

Nick - Macrium Support