macrium reflect free edition bootable usb

For Windows XP, Vista and systems without WinRE, Reflect will download the Windows Pre-installation directly from Microsoft. A variant of this to enable Windows system recovery is called the Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE) typically supplied with Windows 7 and later operating systems. This lightweight, non-persistent, version of Windows is called the Windows Preinstallation Environment (also known as Windows PE or WinPE). It contains a bootable, lightweight version of Windows and a full version of Macrium Reflect. This makes creating rescue media the first thing you need to do with Macrium Reflect. Start Reflect, take the ‘Other Tasks’ menu option and select ‘Create a bootable Rescue CD’ The wizard opens and In the wizard window, select ‘ Windows PE 2.0' and click ‘Next’.If you lose your Windows operating system or need to restore your system, you can start your PC using Macrium Reflect rescue media on CD, DVD, or USB stick.We need to create an image of the bootable CD so we can transfer the contents to the USB stick.

Use DiskPart to set the partition on the USB drive 'Active'.Note: If you receive a message saying ‘Windows was unable to complete the format’ then in some cases the format has actually finished and this message can safely be ignored. It’s best to leave the ‘Quick Format’ option un-checked.

Make sure that FAT32 or NTFS is selected as the file system.

Open ‘My Computer’, right click on your USB drive and select properties.

Make sure your USB stick is formatted as FAT32 or NTFS. In this tutorial I'll show you the simple steps required to create a USB stick that boots into the Macrium Reflect Windows PE Rescue Environment. The partition boot sector is created when the file system is formatted. The BCD is used to boot Windows PE and all flavours of Windows with the Vista kernel and later. Windows Vista/7 creates different partition boot sector code that's compatible with the Boot Configuration Data ( BCD). The partition must be formatted using Windows Vista/7.

Macrium reflect free edition bootable usb