backup with macrium reflect to external drive

The destination for the backups can be any drive and data will not be over written.

Hiwever, the Rescue Drive should be a separate USB Flash Drive. Do not try and create the recovery drive on the same drive ss where you intend to store the backups.

3nd said:

thanks for clearing that up . how big a USB flash size we talking about for the rescue disk?

Oh tiny - Even an old 2 GB flash drive would be enough, but I recommend you use an 8GB usb 3/3.1 drive (not sure if you can even buy < 8GB usb 3 drives anymore). You basically use any USB2/3 flash drive over 1GB but usb3 is much quicker.

By default Macrium creates WinRE rescue media, you need an extra download to make WinPE media. WinRE is larger, but at less than 600MB even that is small enough to fit on a 1GB usb.

ok wait i'm getting confused lol. What i want is that if my pc goes BLEH ,and won't boot, what do i need?
A rescue disk winRE , WinPE , or both? And that just get my PC to boot , and then i can backup with Macrium ?
Sorry , I never bothered to do backups and whatnots before , so this is all new .

edit

after reading this , i think i have a better grasp . Too bad i didn't install the rescue disk option when i installed macrium, oh well , guess i can fix that.
Thanks for the help guys

3nd said:

ok wait i'm getting confused lol. What i want is that if my pc goes BLEH ,and won't boot, what do i need?
A rescue disk winRE , WinPE , or both? And that just get my PC to boot , and then i can backup with Macrium ?
Sorry , I never bothered to do backups and whatnots before , so this is all new .

To recover you PC you need an image on an external drive, and a bootable rescue CD or USB.

It doesn't matter if you make the WinPE or WinRE version, both will do the job. It's easier (and the default) to make WinRE recovery media. It copies the boot files it needs from your installed Windows. To make WinPE media you need an extra download from Microsoft containing the boot files.