Software for clone HDD

If your HDD still works, you can run Macrium from it to restore the image.

If your HDD is corrupted, unbootable, or outright dead, you must run Macrium from the bootable Macrium recovery media USB flash drive...........which you should make immediately after installing Macrium.

If your hard drive fails and you can't boot your laptop at all, you can't restore the image.

Does not want me to make image on internal Hdd says folder also in image

steve108 said:

Yes, look good. Destination should be a folder on your external USB drive.

Doesn't need to be a folder, but it could be. You can save the image file anywhere it will fit, EXCEPT on a partition contained in the image. Most likely external USB or a second internal drive.

Image files are quite large....20, 50, 100 gb. It depends on how much is on the partitions in the image.

steve108 said:

Folders are more meaningful that putting at top level

Yeah, I use D:\images

OP: you CANNOT save the image on C because C is part of the image.

Ok, thank you, will make a bootable Macrium recovery media USB flash drive..
This is the correct why to do it.

Hendrikbez said:

Ok, thank you, will make a bootable Macrium recovery media USB flash drive.

Test it immediately. It's useless if it won't boot the PC.

Make a new one periodically. Maybe keep 2 of them.

To test, I must restart laptop with the usb in to see if it works, ok will do it, and let you know.

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Did make a bootable Macrium recovery media USB flash drive., but it does not boot up with it, going in to windows, will look for a other usb drive to test it again.