Solved Macrium Reflect Ends free version


From Macrium:
1. If you permanently replace your Computer you may load Macrium Reflect® and your
license key onto your new Computer provided you have removed Macrium Reflect®
from your old Computer. Once you have done so, you can use Macrium Reflect® on
your new Computer as normal and restore existing Images to it. However, you must
not restore Images back to your old Computer.

2. If your Computer develops a hardware fault which makes it inoperable you may load
Macrium Reflect® and your purchased license key onto a substitute Computer on a
temporary basis whilst the fault is being repaired. You may then use Macrium
Reflect® on that substitute Computer as normal and restore existing Images to it.
Once the hardware fault has been repaired, you can re-load Macrium Reflect® and your
purchased license key back onto your repaired Computer (if required), and must
promptly delete it from your substitute Computer.
Sounds reasonable. Thanks for the reply!
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 11
I have used Macrium to restore just one partition from a system image. I have also used a system image to move the image to a larger drive while increasing the C: partition size. It's been awhile but so I don't know exactly how. I do rember that it was done with drag and drop.
The trick with drag and drop to larger drive is as follows.

This assumes you only want the C drive on larger drive and not extra data partitions.

Lets assume 4 partitions in image (or drive if cloning) in this standard order

1) EFI
2) MSR (normally hidden)
3) C drive
4) Recovery Partition

Lets assume larger SSD is blank.

1) Drag EFI as partition 1

2) Drag MSR as partition 2

3) Drag Recovery Partition (not C drive temporarily as third partition)

4) click on dragged recovery partition and click on link "Float Right". This moves Recovery partition to far right armt ebd if disk.

5) Drag C drive to unallocated space between MSR and Recovery Partition as partition 3.

6) As drive is larger, there will still be space space. Click on C drive and click on link "Fill Space".

Then continue restore/clone.
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 10 Pro + others in VHDs
    Computer type
    Laptop
    Manufacturer/Model
    ASUS Vivobook 14
    CPU
    I7
    Motherboard
    Yep, Laptop has one.
    Memory
    16 GB
    Graphics Card(s)
    Integrated Intel Iris XE
    Sound Card
    Realtek built in
    Monitor(s) Displays
    N/A
    Screen Resolution
    1920x1080
    Hard Drives
    1 TB Optane NVME SSD, 1 TB NVME SSD
    PSU
    Yep, got one
    Case
    Yep, got one
    Cooling
    Stella Artois
    Keyboard
    Built in
    Mouse
    Bluetooth , wired
    Internet Speed
    72 Mb/s :-(
    Browser
    Edge mostly
    Antivirus
    Defender
    Other Info
    TPM 2.0
I'm sure there will continue to be a Trial version, it makes no sense to discontinue it. Currently at the end of the trial it reverts to Free if you don't purchase. I'm wondering if it will continue to do that.

Also, you are supposed to change the installed key for Trial to a key you have purchased, but if you put in the Free key it becomes the Free version. I'm keeping a note of the Free key and will see if that continues to work after Free is withdrawn.
I guess this is the end of the free version.
I'm done with it. 🤐

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My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 11 Pro
    Computer type
    Laptop
    Manufacturer/Model
    Lenovo Yoga 920
    CPU
    Intel I7-8550U
    Motherboard
    n/a
    Memory
    16GB
    Graphics Card(s)
    Intel Graphics UHD 620
    Sound Card
    Realtek High Definition Audio (SST)
    Monitor(s) Displays
    4k Touch screen
    Screen Resolution
    3480 x 2160
    Hard Drives
    512GB NVMe
I just tried again and got the update... all seems to be ok...
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 11 Intel i5 10400 HD630 graphics chip
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    Manufacturer/Model
    HP
    CPU
    i5-10400
    Memory
    12 gb
    Graphics Card(s)
    HD630 chipset
    Monitor(s) Displays
    LG 24inch
    Hard Drives
    SSD, external usb drive 1tb for files/backups
    Keyboard
    wireless Logi
    Mouse
    ms 4000 wireless mouse
    Internet Speed
    10meg
    Browser
    Firefox
    Antivirus
    Defender
    Other Info
    Win11 Home 23H2 22631.3527 04/23/24
I just tried again and got the update... all seems to be ok...
Did you get the error earlier? I got the same error on all my machines. I'm using the free version, and it is not January yet. 😂😂😂🤷‍♂️
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 11 Pro
    Computer type
    Laptop
    Manufacturer/Model
    Lenovo Yoga 920
    CPU
    Intel I7-8550U
    Motherboard
    n/a
    Memory
    16GB
    Graphics Card(s)
    Intel Graphics UHD 620
    Sound Card
    Realtek High Definition Audio (SST)
    Monitor(s) Displays
    4k Touch screen
    Screen Resolution
    3480 x 2160
    Hard Drives
    512GB NVMe
Did you get the error earlier? I got the same error on all my machines. I'm using the free version, and it is not January yet. 😂😂😂🤷‍♂️
Yes. I'm the 'free' version and was getting the 403 error.

It did require a machine restart to finish the update.
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 11 Intel i5 10400 HD630 graphics chip
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    Manufacturer/Model
    HP
    CPU
    i5-10400
    Memory
    12 gb
    Graphics Card(s)
    HD630 chipset
    Monitor(s) Displays
    LG 24inch
    Hard Drives
    SSD, external usb drive 1tb for files/backups
    Keyboard
    wireless Logi
    Mouse
    ms 4000 wireless mouse
    Internet Speed
    10meg
    Browser
    Firefox
    Antivirus
    Defender
    Other Info
    Win11 Home 23H2 22631.3527 04/23/24
Yes. I'm the 'free' version and was getting the 403 error.
I just tried again, and it worked. Thanks.
We'll see what happens in January. 🤣🤣🤣

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My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 11 Pro
    Computer type
    Laptop
    Manufacturer/Model
    Lenovo Yoga 920
    CPU
    Intel I7-8550U
    Motherboard
    n/a
    Memory
    16GB
    Graphics Card(s)
    Intel Graphics UHD 620
    Sound Card
    Realtek High Definition Audio (SST)
    Monitor(s) Displays
    4k Touch screen
    Screen Resolution
    3480 x 2160
    Hard Drives
    512GB NVMe
I just tried again and got the update... all seems to be ok...
This isn't the first time an update has been temporarily unavailable for a while after release. And it probably won't be the last. It seems to be an issue with the new files on Macrium's server not being propagated out to the CDN servers in a timely fasion....
I just tried again, and it worked. Thanks.
We'll see what happens in January. 🤣🤣🤣
What happens in January is that updates stop, that's all. Reflect Free will just keep on working until MS make an OS change that breaks it (for which, of course, there will only be be an update for Reflect Home).

That hasn't happened yet, and probably won't for a long time. I still have one machine that's happily running Reflect Free v7.2 in Windows 11 23H2.
 

My Computers

System One System Two

  • OS
    Windows 11 Home
    Computer type
    Laptop
    Manufacturer/Model
    Acer Aspire 3 A315-23
    CPU
    AMD Athlon Silver 3050U
    Memory
    8GB
    Graphics Card(s)
    Radeon Graphics
    Monitor(s) Displays
    laptop screen
    Screen Resolution
    1366x768 native resolution, up to 2560x1440 with Radeon Virtual Super Resolution
    Hard Drives
    1TB Samsung EVO 870 SSD
    Internet Speed
    50 Mbps
    Browser
    Edge, Firefox
    Antivirus
    Defender
    Other Info
    fully 'Windows 11 ready' laptop. Windows 10 C: partition migrated from my old unsupported 'main machine' then upgraded to 11. A test migration ran Insider builds for 2 months. When 11 was released on 5th October it was re-imaged back to 10 and was offered the upgrade in Windows Update on 20th October. Windows Update offered the 22H2 Feature Update on 20th September 2022. It got the 23H2 Feature Update on 4th November 2023 through Windows Update.

    My SYSTEM THREE is a Dell Latitude 5410, i7-10610U, 32GB RAM, 512GB NVMe ssd, supported device running Windows 11 Pro (and all my Hyper-V VMs).

    My SYSTEM FOUR is a 2-in-1 convertible Lenovo Yoga 11e 20DA, Celeron N2930, 8GB RAM, 256GB ssd. Unsupported device: currently running Win10 Pro, plus Win11 Pro RTM and Insider Beta as native boot vhdx.

    My SYSTEM FIVE is a Dell Latitude 3190 2-in-1, Pentium Silver N5030, 4GB RAM, 512GB NVMe ssd, supported device running Windows 11 Pro, plus the Insider Beta, Dev, and Canary builds as a native boot .vhdx.
  • Operating System
    Windows 11 Pro
    Computer type
    Laptop
    Manufacturer/Model
    Dell Lattitude E4310
    CPU
    Intel® Core™ i5-520M
    Motherboard
    0T6M8G
    Memory
    8GB
    Graphics card(s)
    (integrated graphics) Intel HD Graphics
    Screen Resolution
    1366x768
    Hard Drives
    500GB Crucial MX500 SSD
    Browser
    Firefox, Edge
    Antivirus
    Defender
    Other Info
    unsupported machine: Legacy bios, MBR, TPM 1.2, upgraded from W10 to W11 using W10/W11 hybrid install media workaround. In-place upgrade to 22H2 using ISO and a workaround. Feature Update to 23H2 by manually installing the Enablement Package. Also running Insider Beta, Dev, and Canary builds as a native boot .vhdx.

    My SYSTEM THREE is a Dell Latitude 5410, i7-10610U, 32GB RAM, 512GB NVMe ssd, supported device running Windows 11 Pro (and all my Hyper-V VMs).

    My SYSTEM FOUR is a 2-in-1 convertible Lenovo Yoga 11e 20DA, Celeron N2930, 8GB RAM, 256GB ssd. Unsupported device: currently running Win10 Pro, plus Win11 Pro RTM and Insider Beta as native boot vhdx.

    My SYSTEM FIVE is a Dell Latitude 3190 2-in-1, Pentium Silver N5030, 4GB RAM, 512GB NVMe ssd, supported device running Windows 11 Pro, plus the Insider Beta, Dev, and Canary builds as a native boot .vhdx.

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