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I use the free version on several PC's & it has never let me down, love Reflect
I think you need to enable it when installing. Go to where you uninstall programs, and choose modify, and enable it.I don't see the viBoot option in my Marcrium. Do you have to boot to your removable media?
I really like and suggest Macrium Reflect Free: awesome product for backups! Guys keep in mind backups are really important in a security configuration.
I do not make big updates immediately, I wait to see if I read some problems encountered with a specific OS update. When the update is stable, then I proceed to update.And disaster like 1809 issues.
In my case 1809 wrecked even MR boot menu and even had problems with boot via WinPE, but somehow I managed to restore MR 1803 image.And disaster like 1809 issues.
Always keep a copy of HBCD PE on your USB drive, it uses free version of MR. I always use that. With Windows I've zero trust because a random update from MSFT will kill everything.In my case 1809 wrecked even MR boot menu and even had problems with boot via WinPE, but somehow I managed to restore MR 1803 image.
Besides making a Macrium Reflect CD or flash drive, you can also add the recovery environment to your boot menu. This is particularly convenient, because you don't have to go fumbling for your flash drive (which you might have already overwritten with something else) and also because it gives you easy access to the Windows recovery environment, as well.Always keep a copy of HBCD PE on your USB drive, it uses free version of MR. I always use that. With Windows I've zero trust because a random update from MSFT will kill everything.
I always carry a flash drive with me so I'm used to it.Besides making a Macrium Reflect CD or flash drive, you can also add the recovery environment to your boot menu. This is particularly convenient, because you don't have to go fumbling for your flash drive (which you might have already overwritten with something else) and also because it gives you easy access to the Windows recovery environment, as well.
From this boot entry, you can make full, differential and incremental backups, you can restore backups, and you can mount backup images in order to browse them and retrieve files.
You can also repair boot problems.
Besides making a Macrium Reflect CD or flash drive, you can also add the recovery environment to your boot menu. This is particularly convenient,
I use the flash drive also when I borked my boot so bad that I can't even get to the built-in recovery environment. This happened to me recently when setting up a dual boot with Linux.I agree, I've been using it for years. Sure beats pressing the F8 BIOS boot select key (with an Asus board) to select the flash drive. The recovery environment automatically shows up as a System Startup option every time I boot the PC. This option is recommended for the sheer convenience it offers.
The USB does duty only when I need to secure erase the SSD and restore the OS using a Reflect image.