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Rescue Environment


The first thing you need to do after installing Macrium Reflect is creat= e Rescue Media


If you lose your Windows operating system, you can start your PC using M= acrium Reflect rescue media on CD, DVD, or USB stick. This makes creating r= escue media the first thing you need to do with Macrium Reflect. It contain= s a bootable, lightweight version of Windows and a full version of Macrium = Reflect.

This lightweight version of Windows is called the Windows Recovery Envir= onment (also known as Windows RE or WinRE) and is supplied with Windows 7 a= nd later operating systems.  For Windows XP, Vista and systems without= WinRE, Reflect will download the Windows Pre-installation Environment (als= o known as Windows PE or WinPE) directly from Microsoft. 

You have the option of restoring to a new system or virtual machine usin= g Macrium ReDeploy to reconfigure your Windows installatio= n for the new hardware.

Windows PE hardware support

The Macrium Rescue Environment needs to include support for your hardwar= e such as USB ports, network interfaces, and in particular for= your storage device if for example you use RAID disks. The default Wi= ndows PE environment supports a good selection of hardware and you can add = support for further devices. When Macrium Reflect creates a rescue CD or US= B, it analyses your system hardware and tries to locate drivers for unsuppo= rted devices by looking on your system. If it can't find appropriate driver= s, Macrium Reflect prompts you to provide drivers. You can provide drivers = by finding driver packages on the local hard drive, looking for driver CDs = supplied with the system, or downloading drivers from the web. After you pr= ovide these additional drivers, Macrium Reflect adds them to the Windows PE= environment. 

Note: You cannot add support for booting media because boo= ting takes place before drivers are loaded. For example, if your CD drive i= s connected via an unsupported SCSI interface card or your boot menu lies o= n an unsupported RAID array, then the Windows PE cannot boot. Booting using= a USB stick is a good workaround in this case as all USB 2/3 interfaces ar= e supported by default.

CD, DVD and USB rescue media 

You can boot your computer into Windows PE from a CD, DVD, USB stick or = USB attached external hard disk. For convenience or for automated restores = to your system disk, you can add Windows PE to a boot menu that's disp= layed when your system first starts. Although, do not rely upon this local = copy as a rescue mechanism because it could be lost if you suffered hard di= sk failure or corruption leaving you without a method for rescuing your sys= tem.

Macrium Reflect creates custom Windows PE systems for each installation = type by downloading the required components from Microsoft.

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