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@RonBin79 - posting this earlier than Wednesday in case you pop back in before then. Will give you a chance to digest and ask questions, if any. (Thursday is fine.....)
First, we want to disable the Scheduled entry you currently have. Not delete, just disable. Don't want it to accidentally interfere with any manual backup, for any reason. You can always go back to it if needed/wanted by enabling it. I'm using the screenshot you posted. Simply right click on the entry, and click Disable. The Status column will change to Disabled.
I'm going to make a presumption that you would want to see what is happening, have progress bars, and progress messages. To see any error messages or warnings that may occur. Basically, know it's alive and functioning, with Startup and Completion messages. All the warm and fuzzy stuff.
We could create a shortcut of the whole process on your Desktop, but you would have no visual progress, just a starting pop-up, then the backup running in the background. This way you see what is happening, all steps.
You know this part, but I'll repeat....connect your backup drive. Make sure it's happy.
Open the Macrium app like you would normally do. I'm using screenshots from my computer, but yours are the same. First screen you see is this one. Click the Backup Definition Files tab.
Remember, these are my screenshots. You should have one definition file showing. Maybe 2 if there was a test one you had earlier, I don't recall. We are dealing with the one you used to create the Schedule Entry. Just that one.
Right click the Definition file. You will see "Run Now" about half way down the options. Hover over or click the "Run Now". You will see all the options to the right for Prompt, Full, Differential, Incremental. If you have the free version, the Incremental will not work and you will get a polite message saying so (see below).
I'm not going to get into the meanings/uses for all the options at this time. That is for another discussion and thread. The one you want to use is Full....just like your Schedule Entry. Click Full. It will start the process and display a running scenario of the progress. When done, you will get a Completion message in a box in the middle of the screen. All the info displayed is in the log file for the backup, but you can scroll thru this display all you want. When done, click OK, and close the program. Eject your backup drive and put safely away.
Done.
Post back if anything is not clear or you have questions.
TC......