After you provide these additional drivers, Macrium Reflect adds them to the Windows PE environment. You can provide drivers by finding driver packages on the local hard drive, looking for driver CDs supplied with the system, or downloading drivers from the web. If it can’t find appropriate drivers, Macrium Reflect prompts you to provide drivers. When Macrium Reflect creates a rescue CD or USB, it analyses your system hardware and tries to locate drivers for unsupported devices by looking on your system.

The default Windows PE environment supports a good selection of hardware and you can add support for further devices. The Macrium Rescue Environment needs to include support for your hardware such as USB ports, network interfaces, and in particular for your storage device if for example you use RAID disks. Reduced download size compared with full Windows Automated Installation Kit (WAIK) - 150 MB to 450 MB (depending on PE version and 32- or 64-bit support).Macrium ReDeploy to prepare Windows to load on new hardware.The Macrium Windows PE rescue media has the following features: When you run the rescue media wizard, Macrium Reflect automatically downloads the Windows PE components from Microsoft and builds the rescue environment locally. Windows PE is a reduced version of Microsoft Windows that is designed to boot from CD, DVD or USB on a wide range of hardware. You have the option of restoring to a new system or virtual machine using Macrium ReDeploy to reconfigure your windows installation for the new hardware.

It downloads just those components you need to rescue your system. When you create rescue media, Macrium Reflect downloads Windows PE automatically for you and writes it to your media. This lightweight version of Windows is called Windows Pre-installation Environment (also known as Windows PE or WinPE) and is provided by Microsoft. It contains a bootable, lightweight version of Windows and a full version of Macrium Reflect. 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, DVD, or USB stick. Absolutely the first thing you need to do after purchasing and installing Macrium Reflect is create rescue media.

Download macrium reflect rescue usb