[Fix] Macrium Reflect Backup Error 0x01

When you backup your system image using Macrium Reflect, the backup may fail with the error code 0x01.

The Macrium documentation mentions the following:

0x01 - An error occurred during the backup or the backup was canceled.
See the backup log for more information.

Cause

Check the Macrium Reflect backup log for more details.

Double-click one of the recent log entries and see what is noted at the end of the log. The log might indicate the problem encountered during the backup.

Here’s an example:

MFT corrupt - Error code = 6. Please run 'chkdsk C: /r'

Resolution

Running chkdsk c: /f, as recommended by Macrium Reflect, resolved the issue. Here are the chkdsk results. It has successfully fixed the MFT.

The most significant line in the following output is “CHKDSK discovered free space marked as allocated in the master file table (MFT) bitmap“.

Stage 1: Examining basic file system structure ...
  1097472 file records processed.

File verification completed.
 Phase duration (File record verification): 4.89 seconds.
Deleting orphan file record segment ECA2.
Deleting orphan file record segment B2A10.
  26991 large file records processed.

 Phase duration (Orphan file record recovery): 0.00 milliseconds.
  0 bad file records processed.

 Phase duration (Bad file record checking): 0.91 milliseconds.

Stage 2: Examining file name linkage ...
  1985 reparse records processed.

Index entry WERFD6~1.ZIP of index $I30 in file 0x102a5 points to unused file 0xeca2.
Deleting index entry WERFD6~1.ZIP in index $I30 of file 102A5.
  1470136 index entries processed.

Index verification completed.
 Phase duration (Index verification): 16.77 seconds.
  0 unindexed files scanned.

 Phase duration (Orphan reconnection): 1.64 seconds.
  0 unindexed files recovered to lost and found.

 Phase duration (Orphan recovery to lost and found): 4.57 seconds.
  1985 reparse records processed.

 Phase duration (Reparse point and Object ID verification): 6.24 milliseconds.

Stage 3: Examining security descriptors ...
Cleaning up 9932 unused index entries from index $SII of file 0x9.
Cleaning up 9932 unused index entries from index $SDH of file 0x9.
Cleaning up 9932 unused security descriptors.
CHKDSK is compacting the security descriptor stream
Security descriptor verification completed.
 Phase duration (Security descriptor verification): 180.84 milliseconds.
  186333 data files processed.

 Phase duration (Data attribute verification): 1.01 milliseconds.
CHKDSK is verifying Usn Journal...
  37311352 USN bytes processed.

Usn Journal verification completed.
 Phase duration (USN journal verification): 101.41 milliseconds.
CHKDSK discovered free space marked as allocated in the
master file table (MFT) bitmap.
Correcting errors in the Volume Bitmap.

Windows has made corrections to the file system.
No further action is required.

 157517327 KB total disk space.
  94478092 KB in 497527 files.
    432968 KB in 186336 indexes.
         0 KB in bad sectors.
   1214175 KB in use by the system.
     65536 KB occupied by the log file.
  61392092 KB available on disk.

      4096 bytes in each allocation unit.
  39379331 total allocation units on disk.
  15348023 allocation units available on disk.
Total duration: 28.20 seconds (28208 ms).

The Macrium Reflect error code 0x01 has been fixed.

Backups, both scheduled and manual, are now working fine.