

This makes creating rescue media the first thing you need to do with Macrium Reflect. If you lose your Windows operating system, you can start your PC using Macrium Reflect rescue media on CD,ĭVD, or USB stick. Try clicking the Chapter Rescue media and Windows PE.

And, I if you click the first section, it's confusing right out of the gate. For example, I just downloaded the Macrium Reflect's newest manual (version 7.2). I don't think I'm being overly picky but I think the writing style is just off. Hi, JP, maybe it's because you're in the IT industry so you know what all the words mean but I'm just lost most of the time when I read the manual. I wonder if Reflect on your system might be trying to do something in the background and silently failing and timing out? Here again it might be helpful to provide details as to what exactly you're doing when Reflect seems to hang. I definitely haven't had responsiveness issues on any of the Reflect installations I use or support for other clients at any point in the years I've been using it. UEFI boot methods drivers and on and on.) Image backup and restore functionality cuts across a LOT of technical concepts: partition layout schemes properties of different partition types, file systems, and physical disks VSS snapshots network authentication BIOS vs. Just tell me what I need to click in order to make it do this, not the "theory" behind it. So in that case I could see some other users saying, "I don't really care how Reflect does what it does. Just out of curiosity, can you provide an example of a section where you didn't understand a sentence even after multiple reads and/or didn't understand why you were expected to do something? (One possible conflict I can see here is that if the instructions explain not only WHAT to do but also WHY you're supposed to do them, that might increase both the length and complexity of the instructions if the "why" requires understanding rather complex technical details. I do work in the IT industry, but I've actually found Macrium's documentation better than most, both in terms of comprehensiveness and clarity.

The second most important detail on my wish list is that I wish Macrium Reflect wouldn't take 5 minutes to respond to each click of the mouse. Right now, I just choose options and hope it's correct. Macrium Reflect truly has to rewrite its Instruction Manual. It's like they used the hardest words and then put them the words together in the hardest way possible so it's extremely difficult to understand. There is no way to figure out "why" I'm supposed to do something because it doesn't state instructions in proper English. Now, that's just figuring out what to do. I'll read a sentence over and over again and I still won't understand what I'm supposed to do.

I don't have a profession in the computer industry but I know a little about computers however, I have no idea what Reflect is trying to say in its manual.
