(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.

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