A standard backup USB is for consumers. A technician’s portable USB is for war. Here is what lives on that 32GB (or larger) stick:
The license grants the right to create a portable Windows application that runs directly inside a live operating system, as well as a bootable recovery environment for bare-metal restore operations. portable macrium reflect technicians usb portable
Ensure Secure Boot is temporarily disabled in the target computer's BIOS, or verify that the USB was imaged using the correct partition scheme (GPT/UEFI vs. MBR/Legacy). A standard backup USB is for consumers
Click the Rescue button or go to Other Tasks > Create Rescue Media . portable macrium reflect technicians usb portable
To service computers that cannot boot into Windows, add a bootable recovery environment to the same USB drive: