Macrium Reflect

Hello When File Hippo upgraded Macrium Reflect does it mean I should create a new rescue disc? Should I also run a new image? I don't have access to the forum as I have a free version. Thank you Peter

Hi Peter, Macrium Reflect regularly updates and patches into the old version. No need to do another image or make a new rescue disk. Cheers, Lee

Hi Peter,

Macrium Reflect regularly updates and patches into the old version. No need to do another image or make a new rescue disk.

Cheers,
Lee

>>Do you have access to the forum, if I may ask?
Is it necessary to update at all?
Perhaps I will just make sure my disc can find my image when there is an update. What do you think of that idea?
Thank you for the help.

I have never found a need to access the Macrium Reflect forum, as all I ever do is create a simple complete image of my C: drive (60G) about once a month that I keep on a 2nd internal hard drive. I then delete the previous image on that drive. I have been doing that with Macrium Reflect for about seven years and still use the same rescue disk I created when I first started using M/R. I'm only imaging my OS, programs and settings as all my Documents, Music and Pictures etc. folders on C: are set to automatically redirect to a large D: data drive partition, so there is never anything on my C: drive that I need to worry about losing. Way back then the rescue disk M/R had me initially create, was a BartPE rescue disk that installed M/R on to it as one of the many tools that were also on BartPE. It has always worked perfectly for restoring my M/R C: image when needed, which used to be quiet frequently. I rarely have to do a C: image restore nowadays as I mess around with my computer a lot less than I did when I used XP As to updating, the main changes in the free version have been layout cosmetics (ease of use which has developed a lot), as it still creates the image at about the same speed (quick) and in the same ISO format as it always did. More reliable? I have found M/R 100% reliable from the get-go, so no changes there. The updates are always small (a patch) and installed seamlessly, so I just let M/R do it's regular update thing. There is no need whatsoever to update the rescue disk (sadly, no longer a BartPE disk), as it is already simplicity itself and will restore any M/R image now or any image M/R makes in the future. Cheers, Lee

Hello Lee
You must have taken typing lessons or have a Dragon;I type the old hunt and peck way + it takes forever.
Thanks for all the information.
I noticed some people using the program whether it be Acronis, Macrium, or native Windows to recover the os.
I had trouble doing that years ago so I always use just the disc and find it to work well.
I loved my Acronis but did not want to pay the fee for my pcs. I read that even if you bought three licenses in 2012 you still had to upgrade + pay again.
I tried EaseUs Todo but like MR better although it was not bad.
I am using MR as the primary and the native program for the secondary.
Let's hope we don't have to use them.
Peter