If you have a way to have both the HDD and SSD attached simultaneously, such as a SATA to USB adapter, then you can just perform a direct clone. IP.S.- I could not found you on tenforums and sevenforums, maybe the internal search is not perffect, or my mistakes.Yes, Reflect can do that. – Please, would you mind comment which is easiest (and reliable, not perfect, of course) in in your opinion – I like it very much what I have seen ? My target is only make a clone (image backup) and restore. (Maybe my prejudice : marketing or auto-suggestionned people on all over there) Somebody says Macrium is not easy for novices, I have found an extremelly contradiction concerned to (Version 2020) Macrium Reflect Free/Home vs. And I prefer to know I have a clean/fresh install than an image which can be broken/corrupted, etc.įorums/Sites:contradictions among Macrium and Acronis:Įxamining in many many various forums and sites (in english and in brazilian portuguese), Last full reinstall (those dont happen often for me one every 6 months average) took me less than 30 min. Rest is just entering passwords/logins on the way (i dont synchronize passwords on my browser, but doing this it can be even faster).

Windows settings/tweaks = Powershell script.Īpplications = Ninite or Chocolatey script (faster, automated).Īpplications settings = a folder on your NAS with profiles + powershell script, and when you can’t save profiles… it sucks yeah but no app for me does this anymore.īrowser settings/bookmarks = synchronized. Have to get ISO, yes, but with Microsoft policies, I get it everytime with Media Creation tool anyway.ĭrivers = geforce is the only one i install manually anymore, rest is automatized with MSI live update (mobo tool) Windows 10 reinstall = 10 15 min nowadays on SSD. Legit question, for my particular “modern” way of using computers, I don’t see the need of imaging anymore.ĭata = all backed up and centralized on a NAS or cloud storage. Video: Macrium Reflect Boot Disk In Action To do just a partition right-click on that partition and choose Image this partition only… Then I backup the ENTIRE disk.Ĭhoose Backup > click inside the large box containing the disk you want to backup > *note – When possible I isolate my OS drive from everything else. See also: Macrium Reflect KnowledgeBase: Creating Rescue Media – Go to Other Tasks > Create Rescue Media…Ĭhoose Removable USB Flash Drive and follow instructions. It is my belief that the only way to do an Operating System backup and restore is:Ģ – Not to be using that OS. Why? After many years of backup and restoring Windows and Linux I have seen just about every method fail at one time or another. First and foremost, I do not backup from within Windows.

Macrium reflect cloning instructions