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You'd still need Reflect installed to restore that Reflect image, of course. With the flash drives, you need Reflect installed somewhere to create flash drive bootable media unless you use Rufus to write an ISO or you've used V8 of Reflect to make an image for a bootable Rescue Media flash drive. With ISO's, you have a more "universal" format. Once that was corrected, ISO's resumed booting. But, that was a fault in my WinRE partition. Well, there are incredibly rare scenarios I've encountered where ISO's generated by Rescue Media builder weren't bootable. So, for example you could create bootable media on another computer without the need to have Reflect installed on that computer. If everything is fine using your bootable UFD or Windows Boot Menu, then you don't actually need to bother with making a bootable ISO.Īs dbminter said, if you have a bootable ISO saved somewhere, you could make either a bootable optical disc using a disc burning application, or make a bootable UFD using a third party program such as Rufus. After all, the Rescue Media I have already created on a thumbnail USB allows me to boot into mini-Windows with Reflect capability, which can be used to restore the Reflect image on an external SSD-if I understand the process.ĭbminter pretty much answered the question about bootable ISOs. I am trying to understand when one would ever use such a bootable ISO. iso file created in Reflect Rescue Media is a bootable ISO? That way, I've got Rescue Media and image file sets on the same bootable disc(s). I like to inject Reflect image file sets into bootable ISO's. Then there's the primary reason I create ISO. Writing that ISO to other media on a different PC would still create Rescue Media that was "custom made" for the PC it was created on. The ISO would be like a "snapshot" of the PC you created the Rescue Media on. Which would reduce the likelihood of problems with Rescue Media created on a different PC for use on another PC you originally intended. ![]() You just take it to another PC and write it there. ISO can also, as its main purpose, create optical disc based Rescue Media. The upshot of this is if you can't access Reflect for whatever reason to create Rescue Media for you, you can use Rufus, like say on another computer, to create Rescue Media to flash drives. ![]() If you create ISO files, you can also write those ISO's to flash drives with Rufus.
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