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Macrium reflect. I have done hundreds of restores with no issue and it is easy to use.
Macrium reflect. I have done hundreds of restores with no issue and it is easy to use.
While Macrium Reflect Free is certainly infinitely more flexible and reliable than anything built into Windows 10, you will notice the OP stated:
So, while Macrium Reflect Free is a much better choice due to it's flexibility above and beyond what Windows backup and restore will do, and is much more reliable, based upon the numerous posts regarding the failures of built-in Windows backup and restore - the OP really wants to stick with the applications that MS supplies even though there is a much greater chance that doing so will leave him up the proverbial creek without a proverbial paddle to restore his computer with should something catastrophic happen.
Thousands if not hundreds of thousands of people are using Macrium Reflect for backup imaging and restoring.
But how does that make it any more safer? I feel much safer knowing that only Microsoft has access to my files than an app company.
Does anyone else feel the same way?
Backup and Restore's 'make a System Image' is very basic. Like all free MS apps supplied with a Windows install (think Wordpad, Paint) it does a no-frills job, but other apps offer far more features (think MS Word, PhotoShop).
Windows own System Image backup has very few user options, for instance it does use a compression algorithm but it is not user-selectable - it compresses if saving an image to DVD, doesn't if to an HDD. There are no options to resize a system image on restore to fit a different partition size. The only boot media it can create is on an optical drive (CD or DVD), not a lot of use on recent systems with no DVD drive and only USB ports. When a system image is created on external media (HDD or DVD) it may not be recognised and offered as a valid image to be restored - it seems critically important to boot from a CD made by the same revision of software that made the system image.
Having said all that, I have used it regularly and successfully since Windows 7. Only once did I have a problem - and that was resolved by trying each of my (extensive collection of) boot CDs in turn until I found the one that could see the image to restore.
Macrium Reflect (by all accounts on these boards and elswhere) is reliable and feature-rich (think LibreOffice Write vs, Wordpad). I haven't (yet) needed to try it, but it would seem the obvious first choice if I did.
Thanks, but you're referring to the "System Image" backup option in Windows 10 Pro, but what about the other option called "File History"?
What's your opinion of "File History"?