I'm not confident about using this. Googling tells me
- Launch Macrium Reflect from your Start menu, desktop or taskbar.
- Click the disk you want to clone. ...
- Click Clone this disk…
- Click Select a disk to clone to…
I've done this but it's not obvious where/what you Click or select.
I'm a bit worried I might lose something or wipe the wrong disk. Can anyone tell me exactly what to do? Thanks.
Hello James,
Look over our tutorial
Backup and Restore with Macrium Reflect and ask questions after that
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Cloning a disk using Macrium Reflect 7 - YouTube actually watch the video first
Be sure you've got the terminology straight----are you sure you want to clone rather than image?
No I'm not sure of image or clone. It's a 100% copy of the drive that's wanted.
I've watched the video and done a dummy run. It's just finished and tells me completed in 13 mins. So I'm about to disconnect the original and see what happens. This is a just test so doesn't matter.
Is it a given that the source drive is never affected/changed?
I (eventually) don't want a copy of the boot drive, but a copy of another drive I'll connect up just for the operation. Presume the only change is selecting the source (with the checkbox on LH side)?
But I'm still to read the link. Will do that before trying the 'real' copy.
Thanks for the help.
If you in fact want the target drive to immediately be bootable, then you do want to clone.
Imaging is another related idea...........making a "backup" file of the source drive and saving that file on some other drive. That other drive would NOT be immediately bootable..............but the "backup" file can be formally "restored" to make some target drive bootable. Maybe an hour after you made the backup file or months later. Imaging is more of a disaster recovery mechanism than cloning.
A clone is to make a copy of one physical disk to another physical disk.
An image is to make a file representation of the physical disk which you could use later to restore the disk or to restore to a different disk.
Which are you trying to do?
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Whether you are making an image or doing a clone, videos on YouTube can guide you if you are a visual person. Of course feel free to ask questions here.
Thanks for the info. It is a clone I want. The only thing I didn't quite understand I read there is
The target drive for your Macrium images cannot be included in a system image.
And I presume the source drive is not affected/changed in any way?
What I want to do is - make a clone of my XP boot SSD. (Using Win 10 to do the copy)
The XP motherboard has died and I've sourced a replacement. I'm hoping I can boot into it, but want use a copy of its SSD so I still have the original if anything mucks up. (The XP machine is not on the net ans had a lot of stuff I still need/use)
Where did you see the underlined statement?
The only thing that should get written to during the clone is the target drive, so yes, source will only be read and remains unaffected.
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A clone of your XP SSD implies that you have another extra available drive which will get wiped out as it will be the destination of the clone process. Is that correct?
Thanks Steve. Good to know! Part two in the link you gave has that statement.
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> A clone of your XP SSD implies that you have another extra available drive which will get wiped out as it will be the destination of the clone process. Is that correct?
Yes. I plan to connect 2 drives to Win 10 (the XP SSD and a 1TB) and copy SSD to the 1TB.
Okay great. Your clone should work.
That statement is definitely confusing and I don't know what it's trying to say
Fortunately it doesn't affect your cloning plan.
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