Using Macrium Reflect on a laptop

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I wanted to create an offline image of my laptop, by booting to the Macrium Reflect rescue media. However this also required plugging in a USB drive to my only other USB port to receive the image, but as my mouse also needs a USB port I was initially stumped as to how to proceed. If you should also run into this issue you can free up a USB port by removng the rescue media, as the rescue software itself is held in active memory and will remain fully functional without needing further access to the rescue media itself.

I only wanted to test creating and verifying an image outside of Windows but in years of imaging within Windows I have never had any reason at all not to trust the MR images I had created.

@fixer

At what point do you think it's okay to pull the rescue key, and how do you know it's safe to pull it, with no USB-present icon anywhere?

It's ok to pull the rescue media anytime after MR has successfully booted up. I posted this on the grounds I was able to create, verify, and restore the image after removing the key, though I don't have any independent proof.