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Macrium Reflect FREE

Updated to Version: 5.1 build 5529

From Macrium Software:

Macrium Reflect v5.1 Free Edition. An award winning disk cloning and imaging solution for free. Protect your personal documents, photos, music and e-mails. Upgrade your hard disk or try new operating systems in the safe knowledge that everything is securely saved in an easily recovered backup file. Macrium Reflect supports backup to local, network and USB drives as well as burning to all DVD formats. This version is for non-commercial home use.


What's new in this version: Version 5.1 build 5529 may include unspecified updates, enhancements, or bug fixes.



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What's new? 5.1.5870:

• Windows PE Recovery boot menu now available on 32 bit UEFI boot systems
  Reflect now supports Windows PE recovery boot menu on the latest 32 bit UEFI boot tablet PCs.

Bug fixes:

• Cloning progress bar not updated
  During a 'forensic' clone operation the progress bar was not correctly updated. This has been resolved
  
• Read error during clone
  Some systems could report a read eror during clone operations. This has been resolved

What's new? 5.1.5856:

• Compatibility with Tablet PCs using 32 Bit UEFI boot
  Reflect now supports Windows PE restoring on 32 bit UEFI boot PCs such as the Lenovo Tablet 2 series.
  
• Warning message in log for incomplete backup sets
  When creating an Incremental backup a warning message is now written to the log file if the backup set doesn't have all files in the backup target folder.
  
• Spin up delay
  If the backup target folder cannot be located when running a backup then an automatic delay of 5 seconds is initiated before retrying to allow for disks spinning up from sleep.

Bug fixes:

• UEFI CD boot problem
  If the 'Prompt for key press option..' was enabled when creating a UEFI booting CD then this could cause the CD not to be loaded when booting. This is a generic problem with UEFI booting media and the option is no-longer available in the rescue wizard.
  
• Clone failure when expanding an XP partition
  A disk clone could fail to complete if an XP partition is resized larger. This has been resolved.
  
• Failure email not sent
  If an incremental or differential backup failed with the message 'Failed to load image file' then failure emails may not be sent. This has been resolved
  
• File and Folder backup mounting issue
  File and Folder backups could fail to mount in Windows Explorer if the backup file is located on a mapped network share. This has been resolved
  
• Program error
  Reflect could raise a program error if a scheduled incremental backup references an xml file that has been delete or renamed. This has been resolved.
  
• Alternative locations issue
  When using 'Alternative locations' for backup target rotations a Full backup may be created when a Differential or Incremental was expected. This has been resolved.

What's new? 5.1.5828:

• Linux CD major update.
  Linux Rescue CD now includes additional support for USB 3.0, restoring to RAID volumes and is built using the latest Linux 3.7 kernel.
  
• Windows Event log viewer
  A Windows Event log viewer has been added to Macrium Reflect. VSS and other events can be viewed directly to assist in backup failure troubleshooting. To launch the viewer:
  1. Right click on the Macrium Reflect log tree node and select 'View Windows Events'.
  2. Take the 'Other Tasks' > 'View Windows Events' menu option.
  
  Note: Windows Events are now also appended to the VSS log file.

Bug fixes:

• Failed clone reported as success
  If a disk read error occurred during a clone process then the clone could report success and terminate. This has been resolved and the appropriate error is now shown.
  
• Support tool hot key error
  Launching the Macrium support tool with 'Ctrl+Shift+S' is no longer a system wide hot key.
  
• Scheduled task edit bug
  Changing a task from 'Every Day' to 'n Number of Days' could cause the task to not reflect the change. This has been resolved.
  
• Windows PE build error
  If Reflect was installed in a folder using characters outside the current code page then this could cause the Windows PE build to fail. This has been resolved.
  
• VSS Error with some DELL systems
  Some DELL systems may assign the drive letter 'W' to the DELL system recovery partition. This could cause VSS snapshot VSS_E_INSUFFICIENT_STORAGE failures. This has been resolved.
  
• Allow dots in XML def file names
  The dot character is now permitted in the xml file name.
  
• Windows PE UEFI media ignoring the prompt for key press option
  The Windows PE rescue media for GPT/UEFI systems would always prompt for a key press on startup regardless of option selected when creating the media. This has been resolved.
  
• Logical drive image problem.
  Incremental/Differential images of logical drives could create images of the wrong partition if another logical drive existed with exactly the same length in the same extended partition. This has been resolved.

General

• Publisher Macrium Software
  
• Publisher web site http://www.macrium.com
  
• Release date April 17, 2013
  
• Date added April 17, 2013
  
• Version 5.1 build 5870

Category

• Category Utilities & Operating Systems
  
• Subcategory Backup Software

System requirements

• Operating systems Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Vista, Windows XP
  
• Additional requirements Not available

Download information

• File size 37.25MB
  
• File name reflect_setup_free.exe

Pricing

• License model Free
  
• Limitations Not available

Macrium Reflect v5.1 Free Edition. An award winning disk cloning and imaging solution for free. Protect your personal documents, photos, music and e-mails. Upgrade your hard disk or try new operating systems in the safe knowledge that everything is securely saved in an easily recovered backup file. Macrium Reflect supports backup to local, network and USB drives as well as burning to all DVD formats. This version is for non-commercial home use.

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Macrium Reflect Free

Version 5.2 build 6249

 

July 16th, 2013

 

Paramount Software UK has released Macrium Reflect Free 5.2, a brand new version of its free-for-personal-use drive imaging tool for Windows. Version 5.2 makes the tool easier to use from within Windows itself thanks to tighter shell integration, plus updates the recovery builder tool to support the latest version of Windows PE.
 
Macrium Reflect Free allows users to create, restore and browse disk images of entire partitions or disk drives. Thanks to recently added support for Windows PE, users can also easily use the program outside of Windows, enabling them to recover images even when their computer won’t boot.
 
The major highlight in version 5.2 is better integration with the Windows Explorer shell. Users gain a context-sensitive menu that appears when right-clicking .mrmig and .mrbak files, with options for exploring or restoring the disk image directly from within Explorer itself.
 
Users can also unmount images from within Explorer too, by right-clicking and choosing Macrium Reflect > Unmount Macrium Image, plus create drive images directly from within Windows by right-clicking a drive and choosing Macrium Reflect > Create a Macrium Image of this partition… Users can also create images by right-clicking any XML definition files created in the program.
 
Macrium Reflect 5.2 also adds two new columns in Explorer for disk images, showing both backup method and any backup comments made by the user to help identify individual backups. The columns are accessible by right-clicking the column heading in an Explorer window and choosing More.
 
Right-clicking images and choosing Properties also reveals a new Macrium Reflect tab with more detailed information about the backup in question. Some of this information -- backup type, compression and password-protected status -- is also displayed as tooltips within Windows Explorer.
 
The update also optimizes the Windows PE rescue disc tool, basing it on the latest implementation (Windows PE 4.0) for XP, Vista and 7 as well as Windows 8 while also reducing the download size from several gigabytes to just a few hundred megabytes -- files are now automatically obtained when accessing the Rescue Media Build Wizard. In addition, the rescue DVD now supports dual-boot for both UEFI(GPT) and MBR on Windows 7/8/Server systems.
 
Paid-for versions of Macrium Reflect 5.2 also radically improve support for backing up large individual files -- up to 1.6TB per file is now supported over the previous limit of 400GB. At the same time, Macrium promises that file and folder backups are more memory efficient and faster for large backup sets.
 

 
The uninstaller now offers to delete all user settings and files when evoked, and the update is rounded off by numerous bug fixes, including fixes for Windows PE 4.0 USB 3.0 detection, a "broken pipe" error when cloning disks and a crash that could occur when attempting to pause backups.
 
General

• Publisher Macrium Software
• Publisher web site http://www.macrium.com
• Release date June 14, 2013
• Date added June 16, 2013
• Version 5.2 build 6249

Category

• Category Utilities & Operating Systems
• Subcategory Backup Software

System requirements

• Operating systems Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Vista, Windows XP
• Additional requirements Not available

Download information

• File size 43MB

Pricing

• License model Free
• Limitations Not available

 
Macrium Reflect v5.2 Free Edition. An award winning disk cloning and imaging solution for free. Protect your personal documents, photos, music and e-mails. Upgrade your hard disk or try new operating systems in the safe knowledge that everything is securely saved in an easily recovered backup file. Macrium Reflect supports backup to local, network and USB drives as well as burning to all DVD formats. This version is for non-commercial home use.
 
What's new in this version: Version 5.2 build 6249 may include unspecified updates, enhancements, or bug fixes.
 
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