Macrium Reflect Question


  1. Posts : 1,481
    Windows 10 Pro 64bit 20H2 19042.844
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    Macrium Reflect Question


    Ok Way i do thing is SSD is OS and 1 game that i put on there, and a few small programs, Storage drive has Music, pictures, documents, other games i don't want on the SSD, If i do an image after Redstone 5 clean install do i just image the SSD? or wait til i get stuff installed on both drives, and then Image both?
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    AMDMan2016 said:
    If i do an image after Redstone 5 clean install do i just image the SSD? or wait til i get stuff installed on both drives, and then Image both?
    That depends entirely on what you want to be able to restore. If a given image file contains X only, a restoration of that image would contain X only.

    If you want to be able to restore an image of the "stuff installed on both drives", that "stuff installed on both drives" would have to be included in some image or another.

    But I don't think you can include stuff from drive 1 and drive 2 in the same image, assuming drive 1 and drive 2 are discrete drives rather than discrete partitions on the same drive.

    Most people would probably use a file by file backup method for personal data, not imaging. And use imaging to back up the partitions required to restore Windows.

    Your situation may be more complicated if you have some games actually installed on a partition other than C--an installation rather than just personal data. If that's the case, I'd guess you should image the partitions on both drives separately and restore them separately as necessary.
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  3. Posts : 1,481
    Windows 10 Pro 64bit 20H2 19042.844
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    Yeah Games are Installed on Secondary Drive most of them, with 1 on C SSD Drive for loading purposes, and mostly static data there as the game doesn't change much. Secondlife Firestorm viewer changes alot with it's cache and chatlogs, so put that on D Drive, along with Steam games, and then rest of data. I guess i could do both seperately if need be.

    Both are separate drives

    Situation is a bit complicated yes, perhaps why my previous images never restored right lol
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    Windows 10 Pro 20H2 19042.572
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    Do like I do, Image all drives that you many or may not want to restore from. If you do both your C and D drive, they will both be on the backup image. You have the ability to restore them both, or one at a time, or a single file at a time, by just mounting the drive image. Takes a little longer to perform a full backup, but at least you know you will have a fresh copy.
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  5. Posts : 1,481
    Windows 10 Pro 64bit 20H2 19042.844
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    Oh ok thank you, will definitely do that for Desktop and Laptop, 3rd PC only has 1 drive so easier on that one
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