If you have purchased Macrium Reflect then Click 'Full Software' and enter a valid license key to automatically download your purchased product. Download the Macrium Reflect Download Agent and run itĢ. 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’.This article explains how to install Macrium Reflect on an Internet connected PC using the Macrium Reflect download agent.įor a description on installing to an offline (non Internet connected) PC please see hereĭownloading Macrium Reflect Installer and PE Componentsġ. You can add missing drivers to the Windows PE build to enable access to RAID volumes and include drivers for unrecognised network interface cards (NIC). This is licensed from Microsoft and has greater flexibility than the other rescue environments. The only way you can freely access every part of your system partition is to start your PC with another operating system that loads entirely into RAM.Įnter Windows PE. You can't simply replace them with a different version because they may be loaded into memory and inaccessible from the disk. Many of the thousands of files in your Windows system directory are open and running to keep your PC humming along. Windows uses both the RAM (main memory) and the hard disk during normal operation. The simple answer is because Windows won't let you access all the files on your hard disk. The first time you attempt to burn this CD the installer will be automatically downloaded. The Windows PE rescue CD is only included with the purchased version of Macrium Reflect and is a separate download. In this tutorial I'll take you through the steps required to build a Macrium Reflect Windows PE rescue CD.

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