Create Rescue Media

Purpose

This wizard is used to create a rescue CD to restore to a non-booting system or to restore your Windows system partitions.

There are  two types of rescue CD:

1. Windows PE

2. Linux

More information on the specifics of these types can be found here

How to access this wizard

• Select from the menu bar, Other tasks

• Then select Create Rescue Media

Overview

The introductory wizard screen offers you a choice of rescue media environment depending on your system and your choices when you downloaded Reflect. This allows you to choose the type of rescue media environment you wish to create. The following types of rescue media are available:

• Windows PE 4.0 rescue media This downloads the Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit (WADK). In a similar way to the WADK, Reflect integrates itself to create a rescue CD / USB. This requires a download of around 300MB. It is recommended to use this setting on Windows 8 for driver compatibility.

• Windows PE 3.0 rescue media This downloads the Windows Automated Installation Kit (WAIK) 3.0 from Microsoft. Reflect then installs it and integrates itself to create a rescue CD / USB. This requires a download of about 200MB. It is recommended to use this if you are unable to use the WADK on your system.

• Linux This creates a Linux CD that runs Reflect in a similar way to the Windows PE. However, the Linux environment does not contain the same wealth of drivers so some pieces of hardware may not work correctly.

Regardless of the options present, once selected the process of creating a rescue CD using Windows PE is the same regardless of which version is used.