Administrator Popular Post Matt Posted December 2 Administrator Popular Post Share Posted December 2 Macrium Reflect X is an image-based backup and disaster recovery solutions which have taken another big step forward in speed, simplicity and power, focusing on helping organizations protect business critical data and systems, without fuss and budget breaking costs. Macrium Reflect creates an accurate and reliable image of a hard disk or the partitions on the disk. In the event of a partial or complete system loss, you can use this image to restore the entire disk, one or more partitions, or even individual files and folders. Thanks to phen0men4 for the update. Download Jota.Ce, jenyco2, elena1024 and 6 others 5 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigcid10 Posted December 7 Share Posted December 7 (edited) has anyone else had the issue where macrium reflect X doesn't give the ability to make an image writable when mounted in windows explorer it used to do it , it doesn't give the option to anymore Thank you Edited December 7 by bigcid10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neofita Posted December 7 Share Posted December 7 (edited) @bigcid10 I use the portable version and it is a feature that I never use. I just tried it and the image doesn't mount at all. regards Edited December 7 by neofita bigcid10 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigcid10 Posted December 7 Share Posted December 7 7 hours ago, neofita said: @bigcid10 I use the portable version and it is a feature that I never use. I just tried it and the image doesn't mount at all. regards I use the retail (manually patched) version and I sometimes edit the img files because files get added that didn't remove before the backup started but now I don't have that "make writable" option mine mount fine I just can't edit them Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
funkyy Posted December 8 Share Posted December 8 (edited) @bigcid10 Just a guess...did you turn off Image Guardian? I think it's unlikely that Macrium would remove such an important feature. Have a look at:- https://knowledgebase.macrium.com/display/KNOWX /Browsing+Macrium+Reflect+images+and+backups+in+Windows+Explorer (Edit 2) 8th Dec 2024:- Browsing Macrium Reflect images and backups in Windows Explorer in the image. This means you can browse images created on another PC without having to grant NTFS permissions. The option Make writable makes the mounted file system temporarily writable. This is useful when accessing files in the image where the opening application is required to write to the file. For example, Microsoft Edited December 8 by funkyy Richard Rahl, phen0men4 and bigcid10 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigcid10 Posted December 9 Share Posted December 9 no ,Image Guardian is enabled I know it's kind of crazy how it's not a choice to make it writable the other option is there "enable access to restricted files" I know the procedure to explore images I'm going to do a complete clean and start from scratch install of macrium and see what happens Thank you phen0men4 and funkyy 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigcid10 Posted December 9 Share Posted December 9 OK,I completely stripped it off my OS(win11 Pro WKST) and reinstalled it ,no difference same problem (no make writable option for exploring images) must be some issue with win 11 24h2 maybe or macrium X Thank you funkyy and phen0men4 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigcid10 Posted December 12 Share Posted December 12 On 12/9/2024 at 5:38 PM, bigcid10 said: OK,I completely stripped it off my OS(win11 Pro WKST) and reinstalled it ,no difference same problem (no make writable option for exploring images) must be some issue with win 11 24h2 maybe or macrium X Thank you definitely an Macrium X issue I stripped off 8406 and reloaded and patched 8.1.8325 and I got the "Make writable" option back I wonder is the new file extension that Macrium X has anything to do with it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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