The “trick” is to create a bootable Macrium Reflect rescue disk (CD, DVD or USB) which uses Windows PE (Windows Pre-installation Environment ).Įarlier, I mentioned “flirting briefly with Windows”. My brief review of Redo Backup gave me the idea of how to achieve this.
For users who wish to have more control over their disk imaging, and who don’t mind flirting briefly with Windows (more on this later), it is possible to use Macrium Reflect Free Edition on what would otherwise be a “pure” Linux system.įor Linux users, who don’t run dual-boot systems, it wouldn’t seem possible to run a Windows-based disk imaging program. For most Linux users, a Linux-based disk imager would seem to be desirable but, as noted in the previous post, most available programs don’t use a graphical user interface (GUI) and so are not always easy to use and, perhaps more importantly, are not necessarily all that versatile. Macrium is a Windows-based program but this isn’t an issue on the T100 since this computer has Windows as its default operating system. In a previous post ( Backup, backup, backup…), I recommended that owners of Asus T100 hybrid machines use Macrium Reflect Free Edition to create a complete backup of their hard drives prior to attempting to install Linux in a dual-boot format.
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