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hi I'm David Harry and in this

particular video I'm going to be showing

you how to create a maum boot disc and

that's going to be using an external USB

drive now the reason why you might want

to do this is because you don't want to

be running macum on Windows and you just

want to use it as a rescue media disc or

you want to use it to actually do all

your actual dis Imaging directly from

like say the boot prompt and stuff when

you switch the computer on personally

it's how I always do it I never do

imaging with inside windows I always do

it outside of it so what we're going to

do here is create a USB like boot dis

but also the boot dis is also going to

have a partition on it where you can

actually you know store your dis images

as well so it's actually very convenient

like one dis solution so the one dis

will Boot and then it will also save the

actual dis images as well now in order

to do this you need two bits of software

so the first one is going to be the mini

tool Partition Wizard now there's going

to be links for both of these things

actually in the the descriptions anyway

and then also you're obviously going to

need a reflect as well maum reflect now

for this particular exercise I'm just

using the free verion and it's all I've

ever used because I don't need any of

the more extensive functionality of the

like the paid for version I just

basically want to do simple disc Imaging

and this is perfect for it and then what

I'm also using is a like a you know a

standalone like external USB SSD inside

a caddy so I'm just using like a little

128 SSD in the USB case okay so what I'm

going to do now is crack on and try and

get through this as quick as I can now

what what you got to do first of all is

prep the your USB storage device or your

USB drive Al sorry another important

thing to to maybe explain here as well

is that you can't do this or you can't

do this particular procedure with a USB

thumb drive and because windows won't

allow you to you know use multiple

partitions on a thumb drive so it has to

be a hard drive or an SSD inside a case

okay so what I'm going to do here we're

going to launch mini tool Partition

Wizard like I say the this the the link

for this tool is in the descriptions and

this is free so what we need to do here

is prep the drive first so in this list

of drives that I've got here it's this

drive here that I'm looking at now at

the moment this one is actually

formatted to NTFS so what I'm going to

do I'm just going to right click on it

and do delete and then go to the top

corner there on the left and click apply

and then we'll allow that to then delete

the disc and you I would recommend you

do this with whatever disc that you're

using and however many partitions may be

on that disc make sure they're all

deleted and then we take the disc back

to a completely empty disc just like

I've done there then the next thing to

do is to format the dis so what we're

going to do is right click and then

click create now this is really

important now what you have to select

here is fat 32 because you need fat 32

in order for maum later to actually

install all the boot files and it has to

do it on fat 82 I think because of the

ufi BIOS situation and stuff which

requires a fat 32 bios at the start of

the disc so basically format the entire

disc to Fat 32 so I'm going to okay that

then again go to the top left corner

here click apply say

yes and then that's just going to take a

few seconds to do that so as you can see

see there it's effectively just

formatted the whole disc I mean at the

end there you'll see it says 8 megabytes

on allocated don't worry about that so

at the moment we've got a disc which has

got 118 gabt completely formatted to Fat

82 obviously this will be a different

size on your disc and you know this is

just only 118 because of the size of the

disc that I'm using so now what we need

to do is launch reflect and like I say

I'm using the free version because the

functionality of like the later or the

paid for versions I don't need them

myself personally so this one does

exactly what I need it to do and if all

you're doing is wanting to create and

store and then reinstall dis images it's

all you need as well okay so once maum

reflect is launched go to here at the

taskbar where it says other tasks so

click on that and then just come down to

where it says create rescue media click

on that now what's going to happen here

I've already had certain things

installed in this so this kind of

updated itself to whatever version of

like Windows PE that it needed to put on

and certain other install files so this

is going to go through quite quickly but

it may be the case that if you've put a

fresh install of reflect on it's going

to go away and want to download a bunch

of like extra files to do with the you

know the PE the windows PE version that

it needs to use so don't worry about

that you just download it and then once

you know you're there kind of continue

at the stage where I'm at now so then

what we do we click next and then this

is just telling us the various things

that is going to be installed within the

the windows PE version these like

drivers based basic driver so it can

communicate with certain things on the

the computer's motherboards and stuff

like that so don't worry about that

click

next and then from here um what I'm

going to do is create like the the

actual boot partition now now as you can

see here I've selected

32bit now what it is you'll get the

option when you go through it to do

either a 64-bit version of PE or a 32bit

version of PE now I'm using 32bit only

because I'm going to be using this boot

disc on some really old computers which

can't understand the 64bit uh boot

loader or anything like that um and

other thing is as well if you do it on

32bit Modern computers which is 64-bit

will read the 32bit bootloader or the

32bit partitioning so you're dead safe

with 32 bit it'll work on 32 and 64 it's

just in my particular case here if I was

to have gone to 64bit I couldn't use it

on some of the the the older laptops

that I use okay so down here it says

it's a USB device that's fine and that's

the device that we've just formatted to

Fat 32 okay now what I'm going to do

here is click on here and it says enable

multibot MBR ufi USB support now the

reason why I'm doing that is because

then this boot partition will actually

be recognized by modern ufi computers

and older just standard Legacy BIOS

computers as well so basically I'm in

32bit and I'm giving it MB and UEFI

support so effectively there wouldn't

really be much that this disc wouldn't

you know boot into okay so from here now

just click finish and then what it's

going to do it's going to go away build

all these things up and then like write

them to the disc and whatnot and then

it's done so there we go so say there

yes okay now it's saying here Windows PE

USB rescue meter successfully created

please boot this new Rescue media to

ensure it works okay well we're not

going to boot it straight away because

we're gonna have to do something else to

the dis okay so what I'm going to do now

I'm going to exit

macrium and then I'll go back to mini

tool so how we look in mini tool here we

can see this single partition and what

what that is that's now just got like a

small amount of data on it to do with

Windows PE and macum so now what we're

going to do is reduce the size of that

partition so if we right click on it and

then we'll go move resize and then what

you do you just literally grab the arrow

at the end and and drag it down now I'm

going to drag it as low as it'll go so

it's saying there 35 of a gigabyte now

the reason why I'm doing this is because

I want to have the macrium partition as

small as it can be and then free up the

rest of the disc so I can reuse the rest

of the disc okay so I'm going to click

okay there and then again click on apply

and then click click yes now the thing

is with this and this this is saying

it's going to only be like 360 megabytes

in size or something after it's dumble

that's fine because what happens is with

that particular partition it never gets

bigger anyway in the future So you

you're fine to like pull that right down

to the smallest size that it can be okay

so that's all fine now and then what

we're going to do here is unallocated

which is a the big huge space now left

on the disc we're going to we're going

to now for format there so that we can

actually use that to store our images on

so one partition will boot the disc and

then the other partition will'll use for

storing the actual disk images so I'm

going to do here is right click and

click create now you know you can do a

number of different formats here but

what I'm going to use is xat now the

reason why I'm going to use xat is

because I can then put this disc into a

lot of different things say like a Mac

or something like that because as well

as it being um you know able to boot

into macrium and then to store the

images if you've got like a large space

here and it's like way bigger than your

macum images you might as well use the

rest of the disc for storage for other

things as well and just for the sake of

compatibility and being able to write

back to the disc properly xat will allow

you to kind of use on as many platforms

as possible and have full access to the

disk and also you won't have single file

size issues you know single single file

size problems with X fat either if you

enter fat 82 or something like that you

then got limitations on like single file

sizes which would get in the way for our

maum images as well but like I say xat I

use it because it can be red and right

to by a lot of different operating

systems so that's cool so I'm going to

click okay on that and then again go to

the left click apply and we'll let that

go off and make that make that partition

up okay so it's done its job so what I'm

going to do now I'm just going to go

into let's see Explorer soorry not

explor we're just going to go looking at

me drives now as we can see here I've

now got a drive F and a drive G well

what it is here drive f is actually our

maum boot loader and all the PE files

which are necessary to run the macum

from the boot

and then we've now got a nice big Blank

Space where we can then start putting

our dis images into now the other thing

that I do at this point sometimes it

it's if you're not careful you can you

know you can end up wiping some of these

files out and make it useless so now

what we're going to do we're going to

hide this partition so as you can see

here right now we've got an F partition

and a g partition both of them are off

the same drive but what I'm going to do

just for security and cuz I don't I know

if you like me but sometimes I I don't

even look sometimes at what I'm doing

and I end up pulling files or deleting

files and then it starts end up cry in

my eyes out cuz I've done something

stupid so what I'm going to do here I'm

going to make this partition invisible

so what we do go back to the mini tool

and then if we go and click on the ma

and boot partition here right click and

then we've got a function here that says

hide partition so click that and then

again go to the left click apply and

then what this is going to do this takes

a little while but what it's going to do

it's going to like do something to this

um to this partition in order so that

Windows can't see it and which then

stops us from accidentally wiping it out

or moving files to and from it or

deleting files um I'm not entirely sure

whether it makes it invisible to like

Linux or Mac or you know anything like

that but you know for the vast majority

of my particular usage going to be on

the windows and it just gives me that

extra little level of protection as well

okay like I said this this particular

part takes a little while to do I mean I

want a fairly fast system and it and it

still takes a while so there we go it's

done it so okay that now if we go back

and have a look hey can't see it anymore

so that's really good because it just

means that we can't go wiping it out so

as we now see is the main partition

which we can then put anything in so now

what I'm going to do I'm going to switch

the computer down and switch to me

camera and what I'm what I'll do I'll

show you the um the disc now booting

into two diff two or three different

machines one will be my main workstation

which has got a ufi bios on and then the

other one's going to be an old Legacy

like Netbook thing as well so if you

just bear with us a second I'll just

I'll just boot down and switch to me

camera and I'll show you it actually

working now

okay so what I've done here I've I'm

going to boot into one of my old little

netbooks and as you can see there's my

little SSD external USB SSD that we've

just created all the maum stuff on so

I'm going to boot this up and then what

I've got to do here I'm going to hit F12

because on this particular machine what

this does it goes to the drive selection

for the booton this will be different on

different machines but it just happens

to be F12 on this and then that's the

drive that I want so I'll hit enter Then

what's going to happen now the computer

is going to start pulling the files off

the boot off the boot partition for

macum and windows PE and it it might

look like it's going to like be stolen

and stuff don't worry about it it takes

a little bit of time and I'm not going

to rush through this I'll let this do it

in real time just so you know yourself

that it does take a little while for

these things to boot in and the reason

why we're able to boot this is because

we did use the 32bit version of Windows

PE now what Windows PE is is a very very

strip down version of Windows operating

system which then people use to like to

to install s their own programs in to

get their programs running on under a

very minimal Windows you know background

and stuff so basically this is just

booting in now as you can see here free

edition 32bit win

PE and also because we we put it in NBR

legacy mode as well as ufi so it will

dual boot onto ufi and all Al Legacy

devices like this one so as you can see

there we're right into the actual macum

interface so from here we can either to

go saving images or restoring images so

I'll show you to do it on another

machine okay so here's another computer

that I'll use to boot up with and this

one's a little bit more modern and this

one will either be ufi or in legacy mode

and as we can see there's our little USB

boot disc so I'll switch

on and then on this particular one it's

um

F9 I hope yeah F9 to get to my boot menu

sorry well only drive options and then

what I'll do I'll just scroll down here

to to U that drive because that's the

drive that I need to boot from in this

particular instance this is attributing

Legacy although it could do ufi for

forer two so again I'll hit enter on

that now this one might boot a little

faster uh the other thing withth noting

here as well is that although this

machine will do both from Legacy or ufi

is actually a 64-bit machine and as you

can see it's booting fine off a 32bit

verion of the image for WIP and Mum so

there we go that should get in

soon yay there we have it okay as you

can see there Windows 32 although it is

a 64-bit machine and there we go we're

straight into the actual um you know

into the Maan menu there okay so I'll

just do one more machine now as well

which is going to be a Workstation so

for the third example what I'm going to

do is use a 64-bit workstation which is

in UEFI mode so I'm going to do is break

into the boot menu here with

F12 and then what I'll do I'll go down

to UEFI there that asmt is the name of

the drive as you seen earlier on with

the other two but but this time we're

telling it to boot UEFI and don't forget

this is 32bit but it's a 64-bit machine

so we'll click that and then this should

it'll pause a little bit like the others

did and then it'll get into it but

what's important to note here is that

this is in ufi mode and it's also a

32bit version booting on a 64bit machine

so here we go it's booting back in

now yay there we go maing reflect and as

you can see there's 2bit winp booting on

a 64bit ufi uh bios

let me just let this get in and settle

down there we go so as you seeing here

that's on three different machines I

know that's been a bit boring you know

showing three different machines but

it's just to show that it it actually

boots on basically anything okay so I

hope you found this video interesting

and if you know hopefully it's helped

people as well to understand how to one

make the disc and how to use it to boot

from it as well and if you're interested

in Saving images and retrieving images

and whatnot using the boot disc if you

check the links below or if you're on

Windows or certain other platforms

there'll be popups appear on the screen

here as well to show you another video

where I'll show you how to do that as

well and yeah if you like this video

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watching my video take care goodbye now

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