Macrium Reflect Free Advice please NTFS primary red


  1. equoox
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    Windows 10 Home 64 bit
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    Macrium Reflect Free Advice please NTFS primary red


    I use Macrium Reflect Free (now v 7.2.4228) to create an image of my Windows 10 Home (64 bit) PC on a 1TB external hard drive which has plenty of available space on it. Am rather concerned as have noticed that one of the entries for the PC hard drive is now showing as red, I presume this means it is filling up. Is this normal or something to worry about? Will Macrium overwrite this or do I need to alter some settings to avoid disaster?

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    Please explain in simple terms as I am no computer technical wizard. Thanks
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  3. Lottiemansion
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    Hi

    The drive is the recovery partition & does not need any more space & at it's optimal size from purchase.

    Therefore do not worry about this drive.....

    Back up all drives as selected & you have full recovery protection from today up to & including today.

    Future backup required for future recoveries..
    Last edited by Lottiemansion; 05 Jun 2019 at 16:25.
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  4. equoox
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    Thank you
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  6. Bree
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    equoox said:
    ...one of the entries for the PC hard drive is now showing as red.... Is this normal or something to worry about?
    Yes. Windows will always show a nearly full drive in red, Macrium is just using the standard Windows functions to display the drives so a full one is in red. As Lottiemansion points out, the recovery drive does not grow, so it's of no concern.
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  7. equoox
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    That's a relief I was beginning to panic!
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