The resulting mess can usually be undone manually via the PE build's drive managment interface, but it's one of those cases of "good intentions" paving the path to hell. Unfortunately, the process can totally screw up the program drive letter assignment of the Winbuilder PE project itself and it also seems to involve some drive letter mapping that can sometimes result in one or more drives disappearing completely from the Windows Explorer. For that purpose, it appears to load and read the SYSTEM hive on what is normally the C: drive. Their current start-up process in WinPE environments seems to be have the "good intentions" of ensuring that the user will see drive letters assignments "as expected" - i.e., corresponding to those assigned when Windows starts normally. Macruim Reflect Pro insists on overriding them when it is initialized in a WinPE environment. And pre-entering one's own correct REG_EXPAND_SZ values in a WinPE build doesn't help. Strangely, they've done it properly for the file association icon entries, but not for the actual command entries in the registry. Plain REG_SZ entries don't work with envars. *NOTE: Tell your developers that file association commands that use environment variables such as %ProgramFiles% in registry entries must be entered as REG_EXPAND_SZ values. My question is whether there is any way to disable that strange behaviour or its triggeing mechanism with some kind of start-up switch parameter. When initialized, however, it insists on re-assigning drive letters, changing screen resolutions and creating non-functional (* see note) file associations. I like to create my own WinPE builds (using WinBuilder) and have no problem with including Reflect Pro as one "rescue utility" (among others) in any of my own 32-bit or 64-bit WinPE builds. My second question relates to Macrium Reflect's behaviour (I'm tempted to call it MISbehaviour) when it runs in a Windows PE environment. My question is whether a single Reflect Pro licence would permit and support installation and registration under all three OSes on that single platform. My primary working platform is a multiboot system that can boot to either a 32-bit environment (WinXP or Vista) or a 64-bit environment (Windows 7). The first relates to multiple installations on a single physical machine.
I've been evaluating the Macrium Reflect "Pro" edition (reflect_pro_v trial setup) and have a couple of pre-sales questions for you, the second of which may need some input from your technical support staff. Here's a copy of my inquiry about it and I'll post any response from them if/when i get one.
In other ways I like the latest Macrium Reflect proggy very much, but it's insistence on re-assigning drive letters and so forth is just not accptable for many (most?) Winbuilder WinPE multipurpose set-ups. automatical autoassign driveletters on start macrium reflec screen resolution switch to 1024x768 on start macrium reflect
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