Macrium Reflect Query

Philtor

Philtor

Philtor

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Hi Folks

I have been using Macrium Reflect to take a system image of my boot drive for a while now and always just selected the option 'create an image of the partition(s) required to backup and restore windows'.

This always created a single file but something must have changed recently as this is what I get now:

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Any idea what is going on here? I always just start over each time and create a brand new image rather than doing any sort of incremental type thing btw.

Thanks
 
Ok thanks. Will need to get a proper look as I don’t think I changed any settings from previous times.

There was an update to Macrium not long back so thinking that has done something perhaps.
 
Ok many thanks. I will have a play about with Macrium and learn how to use it properly I think :)

I was a little confused when it presented me with 6 files and I was only expecting 1 just.
 
this_is_gav said:
Thinking about it some more it could be that you're backing up to a FAT32 drive which would restrict file sizes to 4GB, so any backup larger than that would be split into multiple files - Reflect does this automatically if it detects a FAT32 destination.

The other thing is ensuring you haven't checked the option for "Fixed file size for the image" in the advanced options when you go to do a backup - you could have changed this in the defaults (Other Tasks > Reflect Defaults), which again would split backups into multiple files.

Note that I have Reflect 6, so if you have Reflect 7 some options might be labelled differently.

Edit: Terrible English.
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I think you have got it Gav! I had used a brand new flash drive which will have been formatted as FAT32 by default!

Thanks for your help. I will format it as NTFS and learn how to use Macrium properly :)
 
That’s what it was... file size restriction with FAT32 so all sorted :)

One last question.. when I select 'create an image of the partition(s) required to backup and restore windows' I assume this also includes any applications I have installed as well and not just the bare bones Windows 10 install?
 
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