Macrium Reflect freeze

spottydog10 · Dec 1, 2022

When booting from USB media Macrium free version 8 loads fine then freezes at the start screen.
Any ideas?
Cheers

idgat · Dec 1, 2022

You've recreated the boot USB ?

Used a different USB device ?

Stigg · Dec 1, 2022

PE or RE ?
I'll make a guess. You're using RE.

spottydog10 · Dec 1, 2022

It's the version that Macrium creates so PE I presume.
The usb drive works on all my other 3 pc's but I'll create a new one and see what happens.

Stigg · Dec 1, 2022

spottydog10 said:
It's the version that Macrium creates so PE I presume.
The usb drive works on all my other 3 pc's but I'll create a new one and see what happens.

OK. So, your UFD is not the problem.
Maybe try a different USB port.
Rear ports are usually more reliable for bootable media. Especially on older computers.

spottydog10 · Dec 1, 2022

I've tried different usb slots and It's a 2022 Asus laptop

Stigg · Dec 1, 2022

Two things to try.
Switch from RE to PE or vice versa, depending on what you're currently using.
Also. Try making the UFD using your laptop.

I still think you're probably using RE. I've seen this issue with RE, but only rarely in all the years I've used Macrium Reflect. But, of course, I may be wrong.

Edit: When you go to the Rescue Media Builder, click "Advanced", "Choose Base WIM".

man00 · Dec 2, 2022

spottydog10 said:
When booting from USB media Macrium free version 8 loads fine then freezes at the start screen.
Any ideas?
Cheers

I mine did the same, I created another one on the USB using the same disk ..Worked okay the one time I tried it.
I had more issues with Macrium after buying the license key....errors in event viewer, red ! marks on some drives, saying MIG failed to protect this volume... reboot windows, reinstall Macrium.....Until I hear back from support I do not trust a backup....I may go back to the free one

kelper · Dec 2, 2022

If you create a MR bootable USB on one computer, it may not have the right drivers to work on a different computer.
I make each computer bootable into MR from its own partition.

spottydog10 · Dec 2, 2022

So I made another rescue media direct from the laptop and it worked fine.
Much appreciated,
Mike

Stigg · Dec 3, 2022

For anyone else experiencing similar freezing issues and also use Windows 11 and RE boot media, switch to PE for now.
There's a known issue with winre.wim in Windows 11 that's been reported to Microsoft.
Other backup software are having similar issues with RE 11 boot media.

pietcorus2 · Dec 4, 2022

It sometimes freezed during making backup , and writing it to other ( internal HDD) ,
this happend during the " test disk writing " , freezed at 50% . This by using the bootmedia , outside Windows.
Very annoying , could not finish , only by using the reset-button on the desktop !

Checked the PC inside , the cabels ( all ok ) , did a check/repair on the disk , all fine .
So have to write my backups to other HDD , no problems anymore .
Still dont know the reason for freezing during the " test diskwriting " ............!!

Someone has any idea or encountered the same error ...........??

jimbo45 · Dec 4, 2022

pietcorus2 said:
It sometimes freezed during making backup , and writing it to other ( internal HDD) ,
this happend during the " test disk writing " , freezed at 50% . This by using the bootmedia , outside Windows.
Very annoying , could not finish , only by using the reset-button on the desktop !

Checked the PC inside , the cabels ( all ok ) , did a check/repair on the disk , all fine .
So have to write my backups to other HDD , no problems anymore .
Still dont know the reason for freezing during the " test diskwriting " ............!!

Someone has any idea or encountered the same error ...........??

How did you create the boot media. Rufus is probably still a decent bet - create iso image and then use rufus to create a bootable usb stick. I find that this seems to work better rather than trtying to create the boot media directly on to a USB device,

Cheers
jimbo

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