Macrium Reflect Free unable to create USB restore media

[LetsPlayThisBro]

Anyone else have these problems, I've tried 10 different times and it just continually fails to create the recovery USB. First time I thought, oh, maybe I need to reformat the USB, nope, constant failures. I just want it to work the way it's supposed to, is that too much to ask?

 

[USAFRet]

Anyone else have these problems, I've tried 10 different times and it just continually fails to create the recovery USB. First time I thought, oh, maybe I need to reformat the USB, nope, constant failures. I just want it to work the way it's supposed to, is that too much to ask?

What error message does it give? I just created a DVD with that, and it works just fine.

 

[LetsPlayThisBro]

Here's the log, one of the problems is nonsense because it's formatted Fat32 and it keeps prompting me to reformat it as well.

I uninstalled it and reinstalled it and this is what I still get.... "One or more PE Environment files failed to copy to the USB device" Also I notice the time is incorrect in this log, it's 5-ish AM here.

[10/11/2015 12:03:01 PM][Init] Macrium Reflect Version: 6.0.753
[10/11/2015 12:03:01 PM][Init] Selected drive for USB: \\.\PHYSICALDRIVE3
[10/11/2015 12:03:01 PM][CreateUSBWinPE] Open handle to physical drive
[10/11/2015 12:03:01 PM][CreateUSBWinPE] Read drive geometry
[10/11/2015 12:03:01 PM][CreateUSBWinPE] Check for active FAT32 partition in removeable media
[10/11/2015 12:03:01 PM][HasActiveFAT32] WARNING: No active FAT partitions found
[10/11/2015 12:03:01 PM][TrackZerIsReadOnly] Check track zero writeable
[10/11/2015 12:03:01 PM][TrackZeroIsReadOnly] Track zero is writeable for selected disk
[10/11/2015 12:03:01 PM][CreateUSBWinPE] Calculate space required for PE files
[10/11/2015 12:03:01 PM][CreateUSBWinPE] PE File Count: 36 requiring 320.3 MB disk space
[10/11/2015 12:03:01 PM][CreateUSBWinPE] Determine target volume for WinPE files
[10/11/2015 12:03:01 PM][DetermineTargetPartition] Partition 1 is size 14.46 GB
[10/11/2015 12:03:01 PM][DetermineTargetPartition] Partition 1 is FAT type
[10/11/2015 12:03:01 PM][DetermineTargetPartition] Volume for partition 1 is \\?\Volume{c95882b1-7000-11e5-98a6-f079596eb512}\
[10/11/2015 12:03:01 PM][DetermineTargetPartition] Volume \\?\Volume{c95882b1-7000-11e5-98a6-f079596eb512}\ has file system FAT32
[10/11/2015 12:03:01 PM][DetermineTargetPartition] Determine free space on hard disk volume \\?\Volume{c95882b1-7000-11e5-98a6-f079596eb512}\
[10/11/2015 12:03:01 PM][DetermineTargetPartition] Free space on disk volume \\?\Volume{c95882b1-7000-11e5-98a6-f079596eb512}\ is 14.44 GB
[10/11/2015 12:03:01 PM][DetermineTargetPartition] Checking for existing target WIM file
[10/11/2015 12:03:01 PM][DetermineTargetPartition] Disk volume \\?\Volume{c95882b1-7000-11e5-98a6-f079596eb512}\ meets requirements, favouring FAT partition over previously discovered
[10/11/2015 12:03:01 PM][CreateUSBWinPE] Writing MBR boot code
[10/11/2015 12:03:01 PM][WriteBootCode] MBR boot code successfully written to disk
[10/11/2015 12:03:01 PM][CreateUSBWinPE] Setting target partition active
[10/11/2015 12:03:01 PM][SetTargetPartitionActive] Target partition successfully set active
[10/11/2015 12:03:01 PM][CreateUSBWinPE] Writing partition boot sector code
[10/11/2015 12:03:01 PM][CreateUSBWinPE] Copying WinPE files to target volume...
[10/11/2015 12:03:01 PM][CopyFiles] Copying c:\boot\macrium\WAIKFiles\ISO\ to \\?\Volume{c95882b1-7000-11e5-98a6-f079596eb512}\
[10/11/2015 12:03:01 PM][CopyFiles] Copying c:\boot\macrium\WAIKFiles\ISO\boot\ to \\?\Volume{c95882b1-7000-11e5-98a6-f079596eb512}\boot\
[10/11/2015 12:03:01 PM][CopySingleFile] ERROR: Failed to open handle to target file \\?\Volume{c95882b1-7000-11e5-98a6-f079596eb512}\boot\bcd (code: 1005, The volume does not contain a recognized file system.

Please make sure that all required file system drivers are loaded and that the volume is not corrupted.

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[10/11/2015 12:03:01 PM][CreateUSBWinPE] One or more PE Environment files failed to copy to the USB device
[10/11/2015 12:03:01 PM][OnEndUSBBuild] Failed

 

[LetsPlayThisBro]

Gonna try again with a DVD disk, I thought I could get rid of that thing finally but apparently not.

 

[LetsPlayThisBro]

Worked with DVD.... dunno, creating image now, less than 2 hours till it's done.

 

[jsmithepa]

Works for me. The flash needs to be at least 500 MB if that's what ur using.

 

[LetsPlayThisBro]

Works for me. The flash needs to be at least 500 MB if that's what ur using.

Honestly don't know what the problem was, the USB is a 16gb drive, it's the smallest one I have, but for some reason it just didn't like it. It did work and I did test the DVD, but I would have rather had the USB. It's a mystery to me, but not a very compelling one.

One that's really strange is, I have a drive partition I created the backup on, it has 1.4-ish TB on it, the only file on it is the Marcium backup which claims it's 550-ish GB, yet it's taking up more than 1.1TB space on the drive. I want to copy it to an external drive for secondary backup and maybe upload it to the cloud for a 4th total location. But the bigger the file the longer the transfer.

Anyone ever have that happen? The file seems to take up more room on the drive than the actual size of the file, if it was only a 10-20% difference I'd chalk it up to just being strange, but it's taking up about twice the space it claims the file is.

EDIT: Nevermind, just rebooted and now the file and the space used on the partition are both accurate. Had to reboot to test it and boom that's what it was. I did leave the default setting of medium compression but maybe when it creates it uses the full size to determine if the file is going to fit and then compresses it so it takes up less room than what was allocated? Dunno, either way it's displaying correctly now.

 

[LetsPlayThisBro]

Ok this is interesting, I have a Corsair 550D case, when I plugged in my external hard drive and started to copy the file from the HDD partition to my external drive, it's a USB 3.0 and so are both ports. The port I had it plugged into seemed to be fairly slow, I canceled the transfer and moved the USB over to the one next to it and it was suddenly 3-4 times faster transfer rate. Both of those ports use the same connection to the motherboard and the same USB 3.0 header. Might be a bad port.

Why is that interesting? Because the one that seems slower is the one I was using the USB stick to create restore media. Might have to get a new part from Corsair.

 

[jsmithepa]

16 GB flash maybe too big, I dunno, am guessing, am not at home to verify. If Macrium formats the thing as plaint FAT it may chock with with 16 GB flash? JUST GUESSING.