Question about using Macrium Reflect

Hi. I'll be making a system image using Macrium Reflect for the first time. I will backup the Windows (C) Drive, Windows RE Tools and the EFI System Partitions. I'd like to know if I should also backup the Recovery Drive (D). Thanks in advance for any replies. Note that I did read through the Help info but I didn't see anything about this.

dalchina: Thanks for your reply, pix and link. My HP PC has a Recovery Drive labeled D. It is not checked when I click on Create an image of the partition(s) required to backup and restore Windows so that basically answers my question. Thanks again.
Mark

Mcd73165 said:

...My HP PC has a Recovery Drive labeled D. It is not checked when I click on Create an image of the partition(s) required to backup and restore Windows so that basically answers my question.

On an HP the D: Recovery drive holds the OEM 'factory reset' system image that would be restored if you were to use the HP factory reset utilities. It is not required for running Windows. Most OEMs hide their factory reset partition by not assigning it a drive letter, HP are an exception.

Anyway, if your HP was upgraded to 10 from W7/8 then the factory reset image would still be the original W7/8 one - so hardly worth imaging

HP and Compaq Desktop PCs - What is the Recovery (D:) Hard Drive? | HP® Customer Support

I would backup the recovery partition since it's probably small anyway. Also consider backing up the partition containing your user files. Learn how to do automatic scheduled backups since it's easy to forget to do regular backups. You should also build a Reflect recovery drive.

Steve C said:

I would backup the recovery partition since it's probably small anyway. Also consider backing up the partition containing your user files. Learn how to do automatic scheduled backups since it's easy to forget to do regular backups. You should also build a Reflect recovery drive.

Thanks. I'll consider what you suggested.
Mark

I just select all partitions including the Manufacturers Recovery partition (D) which is probably about 10 GB or so and relatively small.
Keeps it all as simple as possible.

That is the easy bit, the Recovery media is the tricky bit.

Helmut said:

I just select all partitions including the Manufacturers Recovery partition (D) which is probably about 10 GB or so and relatively small.
Keeps it all as simple as possible.

That is the easy bit, the Recovery media is the tricky bit.

Thanks, Helmut. I've already made a Recovery Flash Drive from HP's Recovery Media Creation.
Mark