Software Update: Macrium Reflect 7.2.4156

Paramount Software has released an update to Macrium Reflect. This program can create a disk image of a partition or hard disk. In addition to the free version, there are also paid performances those different extras such as being able to do a file backup or an incremental backup, encryption, and restoring a backup to different hardware than it was created on.

From version 7.1 the free version is no longer only for private use, but can now also be used in commercial environments. There is also Image Guardian, which protects backup files from unauthorized modifications, improvements have been made to virtual images, and several bugs have been fixed. The following improvements have also been made in this release:

What’s New

• Macrium Reflect now includes support for volumes formatted with the NTFS file-system that have a cluster size larger than 64K.

Bug Fixes

• Change Block Tracker
  • On some system using Microsoft Storage Spaces the option to enable CBT could fail. This has now been resolved and CBT fully supports Storage Spaces.
  • Performance Optimization. The frequency with which CBT flushes its internal state to disk has been reduced.
• Reflect Monitor would show a sliding progress Marquee instead of the actual backup progress. This has been resolved.
• It was not aways possible to switch Wi-Fi networks when more than one network was available. This has been resolved.
• The PEExplorer application in the rescue media now includes a file deletion confirmation prompt.
• An incorrect error could be displayed when browsing images if the ‘Enable access to restricted folders’ option was selected in Windows PE/RE. This has been resolved
• When changing the installed edition of Macrium Reflect the previous license key could be retained after running the installer. This has been resolved
• When resizing a restored BitLocker unlocked image the BitLocker Removal warning message box would not be displayed. This has been resolved
• Various small bug fixes and changes to improve Macrium Reflect.