DR_ADHAM Posted December 12, 2018 Share Posted December 12, 2018 Macrium Reflect is a backup and disk imaging software program for Microsoft Windows developed by Paramount Software UK Ltd in 2006. It creates disk images and file backup archives using Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service to ensure 'point in time' data accuracy. Macrium Reflect can backup whole partitions or individual files and folders into a single compressed, mountable archive file, which can be used to restore exact images of the partitions on the same hard disk for disaster recovery, or a new hard disk for data migration. 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WHAT IS MACRIUM REFLECT? ============================================================= Spoiler Macrium Reflect is a backup, disk imaging and cloning software that comes with free, personal and commercial editions. It is a product of Macrium Software, a company established in 2006 whose founder personally experienced data disaster and, not finding practical and easy to use backup tools at that time, developed his own solution. For more than a decade now, Macrium Reflect has established its reputation for its speedy recovery times and the ability to create safe and secure disk image. Macrium Reflect evolved through the years with new features and capabilities to meet the disk imaging and recovery requirements of customers. The software is offered in five editions starting with a basic free edition that was offered from the very start, making the company one of the earliest to release a free version for backup software. It has since proven to be a reliable solution to quickly image and restore an operating system. All other editions are paid solutions for home PC, business-critical workstations, servers and large-scale server systems. Prices are pegged for licenses per PC or server with ascending cost and beefier features as one goes up the tier from personal to business to commercial use. The software is compatible with all Windows operating platforms. ============================================================= 3. MACRIUM REFLECT BENEFITS ============================================================= Spoiler No cost option Having a free edition is a big attraction. And the good thing is that Macrium Reflect’s free edition is regularly upgraded with additional features (the 7th version was launched early 2017). If you’re looking to back up your system in the fastest, easiest and safest way, then you’ve got a very practical solution that is just a download away. Backup where you want You can upgrade your hard disk, try a new OS, and protect personal files and documents in an easily recoverable backup file that you can save to local, network and USB drives or transfer to DVD format. Schedule your backups The software provides extensive backup scheduling options so you can program it to run during your preferred times. It likewise feature retention rules allowing you to set parameters such as the length of time to keep files and what to save or delete when disk space is at critical levels. Rapid restore and cloning Macrium applies Rapid Delta technology that increases cloning speeds by copying file system deltas. The same technique is applied in recovering and restoring images in minutes or even seconds. Scalable solution Whatever your need, from simple system or file recovery on your home PC to backing up entire business workstations and servers, Macrium can provide tailor-fit solutions designed for endpoint backups and recovery. Global resellers Macrium boasts of over 900 resellers of its products worldwide and you can use its partner locator in its website to find a reseller nearest you. Premium products brings with it 24/7 support from an experienced development and support team for any queries and technical issues. ============================================================= 4. OVERVIEW OF MACRIUM REFLECT FEATURES ============================================================= Spoiler Windows OS Live Image Creator Backup Content Browser Differential Images Non-booting System Restore Direct Disk Cloning Backups Instant Boot in VM Backups Schedule Rapid Delta Cloning & Restore Incremental Backups Backup Set Consolidation Backup Encryption Backup Files and Folders Bare Metal Restore Ransomware Protection Windows Log Events Central Management with Macrium Site Manager Server Class OS Backup & Restore MS Exchange & SQL Granular Backup ============================================================= 5. PRODUCT COMPARISON ============================================================= Spoiler Home Edition Workstation Server Server Plus For full-detailed product comparison ====> Macrium Software | Product Comparison ============================================================= 6. TECHNICAL DETAILS ============================================================= Spoiler Devices Supported Windows Language Support English and German Pricing Model One-time payment Customer Types Small Business Large Enterprises Medium Business Freelancers Deployment On Premise ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ Section 2: Knowledge Base OFFICIAL HOMEPAGE CHANGELOG PRODUCT COMPARISON USER GUIDE BUYING GUIDE PRICING PLAN ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ Section 3: Download HASHES VIRUSTOTAL [FOR MEDICINE] DOWNLOAD LINKS [SETUP + MEDICINE] ============================================================= 1. HASHES ============================================================= Spoiler 1. Homex86: CRC32: 680745c5MD5: 08975abe7b78f2935b6718f901076cf3SHA-1: f75cdfefbd81b9eaac9967003db3590260385e5d x64: CRC32: 98f67c43MD5: 1b9311cae80c380779f8dd51e8ece98eSHA-1: 1971119a5626a8a815c8c782ff3b459621d05460 2. Workstationx86: CRC32: 21080e5cMD5: a8c7dc7c618b2302b40b09b93ff9e92fSHA-1: 130670d0db11d6194fa67ed7347046d2f77fa6e8 x64: CRC32: ef47c0aaMD5: 6d5cc7e5542df93c07a9f6b0bb2903d3SHA-1: 9cdd893b4f228f05b9c65f22bbe7911ad85f93c8 3. Serverx86: CRC32: 8599e04dMD5: b8037ebb30cf98dcaf59e33baf47cb93SHA-1: fac986f28bc3b0700d37e70a0bb7377c922118f5 x64: CRC32: 410a3d47MD5: f22d5b10c7c4d3a9d290e2b2dcae6e5bSHA-1: 65a2693e63e0cb656001478548a3a045b8b8391a 4. Server Plusx86: CRC32: c284b9e1MD5: 0030ce1f2febf459f34f91ef9d09319dSHA-1: 3e51a5d5f7bda5e9a938121275387c4b82956dc7 x64: CRC32: 8978561dMD5: 4649c12d18785dc11b98c2fe80e50f15SHA-1: 51727362ad95a69b903c6f565fe8df736a655cf8 5. Server Plus PortableCRC32: 7dda80d7MD5: f65132a76d8c2c3d5a59005c42983117SHA-1: e41f25c466ff9556cee6d3318f616b404e5ff54f 6. Patchx86: CRC32: dec2f3d8MD5: 222feb26de72a3b94f7b936a13f15a10SHA-1: aaef9f38cc54e4085392ac839d3f21bb2c57f081 x64: CRC32: 4b392853MD5: 9ec06e71c956c414c278c67f69564cd9SHA-1: e679492ef90199232dd633f8776c8cd32e78cef2 ============================================================= 2. VIRUSTOTAL [FOR MEDICINE] ============================================================= Spoiler macrium.reflect.(all.editions).7.2.3825.[x86]-MPT macrium.reflect.(all.editions).7.2.3825.[x64]-MPT PS: The medicine is working fine for the new version (7.2.3906). ============================================================= 3. DOWNLOAD LINKS [SETUP + MEDICINE] ============================================================= Spoiler Site: https://mega.nz Sharecode: /#F!VolHGSTb!aEGWLVa2cbX8bT_WubEiZQ Password (for all files): DR_ADHAM ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ Section 4: Guides & Tutorials INSTALLATION AND ACTIVATION DRIVE BACKUP WINDOWS BACKUP IMAGE RESTORE IMAGE DELETE CLONE DISK CLONE WHOLE HDD WinPE [BOOTABLE RESCUE IMAGE] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DR_ADHAM Posted December 13, 2018 Author Share Posted December 13, 2018 Section 4-i: Installation & Activation In this topic all tutorials are made using the most featured product [Macrium Reflect Server Plus] Before proceeding with the setup process, you must disable your network connection (otherwise the program will require registration) Choose your suitable setup file; whether 32 or 64 bit, then double-click to run the setup process Spoiler Next Spoiler Accept the agreement Spoiler 30 day trial Spoiler Next Spoiler As I said it's a must to disable network connection before starting setup; Otherwise registration window will pop up at this stage and you won't be able to bypass it; Then You'll have to cancel this setup and start a new offline one. Spoiler Next [without any change] Spoiler Install Spoiler Wait till setup completes Spoiler Don't launch the program; then Finish Spoiler Restart your system Spoiler After restart, run the suitable patch as administrator Spoiler Left-click the skull symbol Spoiler Wait for just a few seconds; and then close the patch (All is done) Spoiler Now open the program and enjoy full features Spoiler And this is the main window Spoiler For the PORTABLE application: Run as administrator Spoiler Install (Setup window in German but program in English) Spoiler Wait till the extraction completes successfully Spoiler Enjoy Spoiler Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DR_ADHAM Posted December 13, 2018 Author Share Posted December 13, 2018 Section 4-ii: Drive Backup Reminder: In this topic all tutorials are made using the most featured product [Macrium Reflect Server Plus] From "Backup" ===> "Create a backup" Select the drive you want to backup; and click "Image this disk" Spoiler [1] ==> Here you choose where to save your backup image [2] ==> If you wanted to burn the backup image directly to a CD or DVD [3] ==> If you want to give your backup image a particular name (It's recommended to use the image ID as the file name) [4] ==> Here's a list of advanced options (compression, file size, password, auto verify image, comments and shutdown) Spoiler Select where to save your backup image (Make sure it's a location different from that you're backing it up) Spoiler If you wanted to add any of the advanced features (optional) -- Compression ==> To reduce the image size -- Size ==> To determine a fixed size for the image -- Password ==> To set a password to your image so that no one else can access it -- Auto verify image ==> To automatically verify the integrity of your image after the build process is complete -- Comments ==> To add any comment so that you can see it on restoring your image -- Shutdown ==> To shutdown your PC after building your image (That's useful in case you started the process and then you're away for some time) Spoiler After fulfilling all your needs ==> Click "Next" Spoiler Then "Finish" Spoiler Here you can select or not to save a schedule xml file of the backup process (in case you wanted to revise your backup options later on); or just run the backup without saving any xml files Spoiler Wait till the backup process completes Spoiler Image completed successfully ==> OK Spoiler And finally "Close" the backup window Spoiler After all ==> Check the location you selected to backup your image Spoiler Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DR_ADHAM Posted December 13, 2018 Author Share Posted December 13, 2018 Section 4-iii: Windows Backup Reminder: In this topic all tutorials are made using the most featured product [Macrium Reflect Server Plus] The process is the same as the previous one (Drive Backup); the only difference is that you'll select the disk on which windows is installed; From "Backup" ===> "Create a backup"Select the drive on which windows is installed; and click "Image this disk" And make sure to select also the "System Reserved" volume Spoiler Select the options you want Spoiler Here I selected to set a password for my windows backup image (from "Advanced Options" menu) Spoiler Alternatively ===> You can reach the same target by another method: Backup ==> Backup windows; and the program will automatically select the system drive Spoiler Then, click "Next" Spoiler Next Spoiler Finish Spoiler Run this backup now ==> OK Spoiler Wait till backup completes Spoiler Image completed successfully ==> OK, then "Close" Spoiler Here is the image with all its details Spoiler Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DR_ADHAM Posted December 13, 2018 Author Share Posted December 13, 2018 Section 4-iv: Image Restore Reminder: In this topic all tutorials are made using the most featured product [Macrium Reflect Server Plus] Before proceeding to restore the windows backup image created in the previous stage ===> I made some few changes just to be sure after restoring my windows backup that everything is OK. Here my windows is activated (1) Spoiler HashTab is installed on my PC (2) Spoiler Now I uninstalled HashTab Spoiler ===> So that it no more appears in the list of installed applications Spoiler I cleared windows activation; resetting my system to its original state Spoiler Spoiler ===> Now my windows is not activated and is requiring activation Spoiler Spoiler After deactivating windows(1) and uninstalling HashTab(2): I'll now restore the windows backup image I've previously created From "Restore" ===> "Image restore"Select the windows backup image; and click "Restore Image" Spoiler When I created my windows backup image I selected to set a password; So that it'll ask to enter that password in order to continue Spoiler "Copy selected partitions" to restore from the source image to the destination disk Spoiler Now every thing is OK so that we can proceed with the restore process ==> Click "Next" Spoiler Then "Finish" Spoiler If you're restoring to the disk you're working on (i.e in use; as in my case) So it will ask to build "rescue media boot menu" ==> Yes [PS: If the destination disk is not in use; then you won't pass by these steps] Spoiler Just wait Spoiler A warning window will pop up ==> Don't worry Choose "Automatic boot", then "Run from Windows PE" Spoiler Restart your system Spoiler The program will boot directly from DOS after restart [PS: I ran all tests on my physical machine not VM; so I took these screenshots from DOS using my smartphone] You can press "Esc" to abort Spoiler Wait for the program to figure it out Spoiler Then the program will automatically proceed with the restore process (or you can click "Cancel" to abort) Spoiler Wait for the restore process to complete Spoiler Restore completed ==> OK Spoiler Then your system will restart again Spoiler After restart I checked for the changes I made after I created the restore image; Everything was OK ==> denoting success of the restore process: -- Window is activated Spoiler -- HashTab is installed Spoiler ــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ Now I'll also proceed to restore the drive image I created in Section 4-i (Drive Backup) To remember: I created full disk image of Drive (D:/) Spoiler Now I will format this drive completely Spoiler From "Restore" ===> "Image restore"Select the disk backup image (drive D); and click "Restore Image" Spoiler Copy selected partition(s) Spoiler Next Spoiler Finish Spoiler Continue Spoiler Wait Spoiler Restore completed ==> OK Spoiler Close Spoiler And here's the result Spoiler Drive (D:/) was restored successfully Spoiler Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DR_ADHAM Posted December 13, 2018 Author Share Posted December 13, 2018 Section 4-v: Image Delete Reminder: In this topic all tutorials are made using the most featured product [Macrium Reflect Server Plus] Formerly I've created two images (windows & drive D backup images) Spoiler To delete an image ===> you've to do it from within the program itself (The traditional "shift + delete" method will not completely and successfully do the job) From "Restore" ===> "Image restore"Select the backup image you want to delete; and click "Other Actions" Spoiler Choose from the list ==> "Delete file" Spoiler You can delete multiple files at once ==> "OK" to delete Spoiler Deletion is permanent ==> Yes Spoiler Deletion complete ==> Close Spoiler Now this deleted image disappeared from the list (There was 2 images before proceeding with the deletion process) Spoiler And by checking the directory ==> image deleted successfully Spoiler Similarly, I deleted the other image ==> so the program list is now empty Spoiler Returning back to the directory where images were deleted from ==> only xml files are present Spoiler Those files can be deleted simply by the traditional method "shift + delete" And now that directory is fully empty (no images or xml files) Spoiler Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DR_ADHAM Posted December 13, 2018 Author Share Posted December 13, 2018 Section 4-vi: Clone Disk Reminder: In this topic all tutorials are made using the most featured product [Macrium Reflect Server Plus] This tutorial will guide you how to transfer the operating system as it is (with all drivers and programs) from one HDD to another [In other words: Copy your OS from one HDD to another] From "Backup" ===> "Create a backup"Select the drive on which windows is installed; and click "Clone this disk" And make sure to select also the "System Reserved" volume Spoiler If the destination HDD doesn't appear in the list ==> Just click"Select a disk to clone to..." Spoiler Select your destination HDD Spoiler Then click "Next" Spoiler If you want to change the cloning options ==> Click "Advanced Options" Spoiler Intelligent Sector Copy ===> Copy only sectors that are in use on the source file system (faster)Forensic Sector Copy ===> Copy all sectors from the source disk; whether in use or not (slower) Spoiler Next Spoiler Finish Spoiler Run this Backup now Spoiler Continue Spoiler Wait Spoiler Clone completed ==> OK Spoiler Close Spoiler Now take a look at this list ==> The OS copied as it is to the destination disk Spoiler And here's the result Spoiler Spoiler The same copy Spoiler Spoiler Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DR_ADHAM Posted December 13, 2018 Author Share Posted December 13, 2018 Section 4-vii: Clone Whole HDD Reminder: In this topic all tutorials are made using the most featured product [Macrium Reflect Server Plus] This tutorial will guide you how to transfer the whole contents of your HDD to another one with the same configuration From "Backup" ===> "Create a backup"Select the whole disk you want to copy; and click "Clone this disk" Spoiler Select a disk to clone to Spoiler Select the destination disk Spoiler Choose the option that better matches your settings and click "OK" Spoiler Then "Next" Spoiler Next Spoiler Run this backup now Spoiler Finish Spoiler Continue Spoiler Wait till the cloning process completes Spoiler Spoiler Clone completed ==> OK Spoiler Then "Close" Spoiler Here's the result ==> The source HDD copied with all its contents and geometry to the destination HDD Spoiler Spoiler Spoiler Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DR_ADHAM Posted December 13, 2018 Author Share Posted December 13, 2018 Section 4-viii: WinPE (Bootable Rescue Image) Reminder: In this topic all tutorials are made using the most featured product [Macrium Reflect Server Plus] This tutorial will guide you how to create a bootable rescue image; so that you can use it in case of data loss (very important option for companies and personnel with heavy duties) Click the CD symbol shown in the image below to create a bootable rescue media Spoiler There are many options available; -- You can create a "Windows Boot Menu" to boot directly from your PC -- Or, can create it on "USB HDD" -- Or, burn it to a CD or DVD -- Or, create an ISO image that can be mounted virtually or burned to USB or CD/DVD later on If WIM file not found ==> Click "Build" to update Spoiler Wait while adding the Windows Boot Menu Spoiler Click "OK" when the Boot Menu is successfully added Spoiler After the Boot Menu is successfully added, then "Status" should be OK ===> Here I'll choose to create an ISO file (MacriumRescue.iso) ===> Click "Advanced" to adjust your settings Spoiler Choose Base WIM (according to your OS edition) Spoiler 32 or 64 bit, with or without BitLocker support Spoiler If you want to update drivers before cloning Spoiler After selecting your desired options ==> Click "Build" Spoiler Wait while creating the ISO file Spoiler Rescue Media successfully created ==> OK Spoiler Check the destination directory for the created ISO file Spoiler Check the integrity of this ISO file with any ISO tool Spoiler ــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ Here I'll proceed with another option (USB HDD) Insert your removable USB flash disk; Select it from the list and click "Build" Spoiler Wait while creating USB Rescue Media Spoiler Rescue Media successfully created ==> OK Spoiler Check your USB for files created Spoiler Can boot from this USB drive Spoiler So that you can use this image anytime you can't access your HDD for any reason Spoiler Spoiler Spoiler Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DR_ADHAM Posted December 13, 2018 Author Share Posted December 13, 2018 Will be updated ASAP Edit =====> Updated; mission accomplished Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The AchieVer Posted December 13, 2018 Share Posted December 13, 2018 Already posted by @Astron Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DR_ADHAM Posted December 13, 2018 Author Share Posted December 13, 2018 2 hours ago, The AchieVer said: Already posted by @Astron Ok let @Astron worries about that; thanks for the notice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxlife Posted January 2, 2019 Share Posted January 2, 2019 @DR_ADHAM and @The AchieVer hi.. If i clone full disk to another new disk. Partition also auto created or not.. I have old disk 1TB have 3 partition.. if clone full disk to new disk unallocated 1TB same same partition created or not... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DR_ADHAM Posted January 2, 2019 Author Share Posted January 2, 2019 2 minutes ago, maxlife said: If i clone full disk to another new disk. Partition also auto created or not.. I have old disk 1TB have 3 partition.. if clone full disk to new disk unallocated 1TB same same partition created or not... The answer is: YES (Will be copies exactly as it is) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The AchieVer Posted January 2, 2019 Share Posted January 2, 2019 1 minute ago, maxlife said: If i clone full disk to another new disk. Partition also auto created or not.. I have old disk 1TB have 3 partition.. if clone full disk to new disk unallocated 1TB same same partition created or not... If you do not modify the order or size of partitions of the clone, which is the default behavior , it would remain the same. Regards Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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