The introductory wizard screen offers you a choice of rescue media environment depending on your system and your choices when you downloaded Reflect. This allows you to choose the type of rescue media environment you wish to create. The following types of rescue media are available:
Windows PE 4.0 rescue media This downloads the Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit (WADK). In a similar way to the WADK, Reflect integrates itself to create a rescue CD / USB. This requires a download of around 300MB. It is recommended to use this setting on Windows 8 for driver compatibility.
Windows PE 3.0 rescue media This downloads the Windows Automated Installation Kit (WAIK) 3.0 from Microsoft. Reflect then installs it and integrates itself to create a rescue CD / USB. This requires a download of about 200MB. It is recommended to use this if you are unable to use the WADK on your system.
I'm curious what is it precisely about the boot drive that requires special treatment? Just how would the rescue media tooling do something beyond what the regular Acronis True Image Clone Disk feature is capable of doing when running as a process, TrueImage.exe, in Windows?
When I actually went to flash a USB drive with a Rescue Media Builder with a WinRE-based media, 64bit, I found that the utility booted up successfully but was not able to recognize the NVME drives on my system. I snooped online a bit and found this answer to this question -true-image-2020-forum/acronis-boot-media-wont-recognize-internal-pcie-nvme-drive-ssd
And judging from the windows background the rescue builder booted up in it appears like a Windows 7 type environment. Windows 7 is known to lack NVME drivers by default and requires special patches to get that functional.
I went through the wizard once more, set my source disk as the small disk (Disk 9 below) and selected the destination disk as the larger NVME disk (Disk 8 below) and proceeded. The clone operation eventually completed and marked as succeeded
By selecting the custom rescue CD option, it is necessary to download the Windows Automated Installation Kit. In order to make this as simple as possible, Macrium Reflect negotiates all the downloading and configuration for you automatically. All that is required is for a few settings to be selected, giving you maximum control over the procedure.
Macrium Reflect's solution to recover computers by booting from rescue media saves users time and simplifies the data recovery process when the Windows operating system fails. The rescue media is saved on a CD/DVD or a USB drive. You can recover an entire disk or specific files with just a few clicks.
Macrium Reflect is used to create Rescue Media, which is a recovery image (snapshots) of your Windows operating system and the entire drive. You can boot your computer and also restore it using the rescue media.
The content above shows you how to boot from rescue media. If you're curious about the creating process of a rescue media, you can follow the steps here to check how to create one with Macrium Reflect.
But before you boot your PC with rescue media, you should always do the basic troubleshooting, such as connecting the power cord to the computer properly, checking the BIOS settings, and more. If the basic troubleshooting fails to boot your computer, you should try booting your PC with the rescue media.
Step 2: Click on the Create bootable rescue media icon (the first one) in the toolbar or click Other Tasks menu and then click Create Rescue Media option to open Rescue Media wizard.
Here, make sure that Check for unsupported devices each time the Rescue media loads and Prompt for key press to continue (this option will not appear if you have selected USB) from the rescue media options are selected.
You can try following this but another option which might work is to use the media creator to do an ISO file then burn that to a USB after with a tool like Rufus. I always use ISO and then burn it myself to USB for boot as it could be an issue with UEFI vs BIOS boot in your system as well so this utility allows you to create the proper one and burn the ISO image.
Storage controller drivers can be loaded from 'SDR Main Menu- Utilities Tab - Load Driver' if the target disk is not visible. You may use Alt +Tab to switch to the Main Menu.
Once the driver is loaded, switch back to the recovery wizard and click on Advanced Disk Configuration to view the disk or you can cancel the recovery wizard and from the
Main menu, load the driver first, and then run the "Recover This Computer" wizard.
Resetting reinstalls Windows 11, but lets you choose whether to keep your files or remove them, and then reinstalls Windows. You can reset your PC from Settings, the sign-in screen, or by using a recovery drive or installation media.
Resetting reinstalls Windows 10, but lets you choose whether to keep your files or remove them, and then reinstalls Windows. You can reset your PC from Settings, the sign-in screen, or by using a recovery drive or installation media.
If a backup is available, your best choice for restoring your server is to use the manufacturer's installation media to restore from an external backup. The restoration will recover server settings and folders from the backup that you choose. You only need to configure settings and restore data created after the backup.
If you do not have a backup that you can restore from, or for some other reason you want or need to perform a full system restore without restoring the previous server configuration, you can perform a restore that resets the server to factory default settings by using installation or recovery media from the server hardware manufacturer.
The following procedure describes how to restore your server system drive from a backup by using the Windows Server Essentials installation media. (To find out how to use the installation media to restore to factory default settings, see the documentation from the server manufacturer.)
You cannot use the Restore Files and Folders Wizard to restore the full system drive. For information about how to restore the full system, see Restore or repair your server using installation media or Restore or reset your server from a client computer using the recovery DVD.
Macrium Site Manager enables partitions/disks to be restored easily and rapidly back to their original location. To restore a partition/disk to a different location, e.g. to a new disk or bare metal restore, then the image will need to be restored manually using the Site Manager Agent or rescue media respectively. You can read more about that in this knowledgebase article.
The second page of the remote restore wizard will show you all of the images that have been created of the computer you selected. Each column can be filtered and sorted to make finding a particular image easier. Use the checkbox shown next to the image to select the image that you would like to restore. Once you have selected an image, it will be expanded to show the disk(s) and partition(s) included in the image. If the image contains multiple disks, the disk that you want to restore can be selected here. By default, all partitions will be selected to restore, however, you can deselect any partitions that you do not want to include in the restore.
If you have created recovery DVDs/media for your system, you can restore your system from such media, if necessary. For example, if your original internal storage drive fails, you can restore your system to a new internal storage drive from your recovery DVDs/media. For instructions on creating recovery DVDs/media, see the following Article: System Recovery Options
1. Open the software within the 30 day trial period and be certain that you are in the "Disk Image" tab in the upper left part of the screen. Open "Other Tasks" in the left side bar and click "Create bootable Rescue media".
Become familiar with the process of booting from media. On most computers the boot menu can be accessed by tapping the F9 or F12 key immediately after the appearance of first splash screen. This splash screen is the image of the computer manufacturer as the device is starting the boot process. If the image of the operating system appears; you will need to be quicker on the draw with the next attempt, because you missed the opportunity to change the boot order. Restart device again and have your finger ready to tap F9 or F12.
A rescue disk is a special type of bootable device (USB or CD/DVD) being used for system recovery and repair. When your computer crashed or got a black or blue screen of death, then rescue disk could do a great help to help you pull off the data from computer or fix the issue. Hence, it is very important to create a rescue media for emergent cases.
A rescue disk (recovery drive) is simply a copy of minimal Windows operating system inside a USB flash drive or CD/DVD. Whenever your Windows 11 computer runs into a problem, you can boot it from rescue disk and start fixing process.
Keep in mind whenever you are creating a recovery drive, your personal files, installed applications, and personal settings will not be exported to drive. Only the system image will do. In addtion, there is no limitation on how many rescue disk you can create from Windows 11. But it's a good idea to create a recovery drive after six months or one year.
To create a rescue disk for windows 11, you should prepare for a USB drive with at least 8 GB storage according to Microsoft documenation. USB 3.0 or 3.1 is more recommended. However, USB 2.0 and the older version will also fulfill the job but it will take a lot of time.
Recovery Drive wizard starts to check the system settings and do system cleanup for this time. Please wait a moment (2-3 minutes). Once the job is done, you will see the USB drive name and click Next.
A rescue disk can be used for troubleshooting Windows 11 computer and reinstalling Windows. So basically, you have learned how to create a recovery drive but how you can use it that is entirely another case. In this part of the article, you are going to learn how to use it.
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