One problem also with Macrium is that it requires the V.S.S (Volume Shadow Service) to be operational - and if you don't have much HDD space available it will fail. If I click to Open Services, the VSS entry is set to Manual. In Task Manager/Services tab VSS seems to have 2 settings: Stopped or Running. I am not that technical (a little knowledge is definitely proving to be a dangerous thing!) so simple explanations and guidance would be appreciatedĪnd on that point, could someone please confirm if my VSS settings are correct.

I do also have System Images created through Windows but I want an alternative just in case. I have set my antivirus (Emsisoft) to allow Macrium. Other helpful (to the reader) information: But when trying to open the program I still get the 'stopped working' message.Īdditional Information 2: 4ce4e113bc4c505a641a15c39fea5d69Īdditional Information 4: 92c46470e27626491c72c1abfb657a48 This took a lot longer than the previous installs but eventually appeared to have completed successfully. So I decided to try a completely new install of the free edition from Macrium's website. When I got this issue on the other laptop, updating the the current version was part of the solution, hence doing this immediately on the second laptop. So I thought I would try to create an image before updating, but got a familiar (to me when using Macrium) VSS issue which aborts the process.

I uninstalled and tried again a few times with no success.

After this it was not possible to open the program: 'Macrium Reflect Disk Imaging has stopped working'. I then searched for updates as the file was a few months old and updated to the latest version. This installed and opened without any problem. So I wanted to also do this on the other laptop.įirst I installed Macrium. I have 2 Dell laptops, bought at the same time, both same spec running Win 8.1.Īfter several failed attempts and lots of forum browsing I finally managed to create a System Image on one laptop, using Macrium Reflect Free edition with the latest update.

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