Description When trouble shooting, Macrium Support may request that commands be run in an MS-DOS command prompt under elevated mode. Elevated mode is where a program is run under Windows using Administrator privileges. It is not enough to already be a...
| 20 Dec 2011 | 223,513 |
ImgToVhd is a utility that creates VHD files from Macrium backup images. These can then be used to create a bootable virtual machine facilitating quick access to a failed machine whose repair would be time consuming or not possible. We have created a...
| 16 Mar 2010 | 190,106 |
This article explains the reasons why you might see the error message "Incompatible Disk Selected" when attempting a Restore or Clone operation. Notes: This is only an issue with when the structure of the target disk for a restore or clone...
| 1 Aug 2013 | 73,208 |
This article explains the steps required to remove a drive letter from the Microsoft System Reserved (MSR) partition. Note: You can also use the same steps to remove a drive letter association from any partition. The MSR partition is required to boot...
| 31 Dec 2012 | 72,297 |
Disk encryption software is provided by Microsoft under the name Bitlocker. Various third party tools, such as TrueCrypt, McAfee SafeBoot and PGP Whole Disk Encryption offer similar functionality. You can choose to encrypt your data in the following...
| 23 Jan 2012 | 47,589 |
Most installations of Windows 7 include a tiny 100 MB partition named ''System Reserved''. This is also known as the MSR or “Microsoft System Reserved'' Partition. For brevity I''ll refer to this partition as MSR throughout the rest of this article....
| 19 Jul 2010 | 44,693 |
This article explains how to convert a physical machine to a virtual machine on a VMware ESXi Host Migrating old physical hardware to virtual machine is an increasingly common business requirement as companies consolidate old hardware onto newer, more...
| 3 Jul 2013 | 33,978 |
To enable an operating system to uniquely identify disks, a signature is generated as part of the initialisation process. In the case of an MBR partitioned disk, this is a 4 byte value, typically presented as an 8 character hex string. This is extended to...
| 24 Oct 2012 | 26,068 |
This article explains how to use the Reflect from the command line. Getting Help You can retrieve a prompt for all the command line arguments by simply typing reflect -h from the command line. Running a Backup The command line form is as follows:...
| 30 Sep 2013 | 15,142 |
This article explains how Full, Incremental and Differential images and backups are saved to the target folder specified in your backup definition file. Also, which backup set is chosen when you run a Differential or Incremental. For information on how...
| 24 Jan 2013 | 14,181 |