Backup and Restore with Macrium Reflect

CountMike · 04 Jan 2021

mck said:

Thanks folks for your responses.

Has anyone with a drive (SSD or HDD) that has C: and D: partitions on it, actually imaged ALL of the partitions (except the D: partition) and later restored the image to the drive without affecting the D: partition and then verified that the drive is bootable into Win10?

I don't think so, when you restore an image it wipes out target disk first. Only thing you can do is to image and restore all partitions except D: and than copy contents of D: to space left over. What would be a reason not to include D: partition in first place ?

kado897 · 04 Jan 2021

CountMike said:

I don't think so, when you restore an image it wipes out target disk first. Only thing you can do is to image and restore all partitions except D: and than copy contents of D: to space left over. What would be a reason not to include D: partition in first place ?

I don't think so Mike. I think it just overwrites the restored partitions in place and leaves any others alone. Unfortunately I don't have a system I can try it on.

fdegrove · 04 Jan 2021

Hi,

It won't wipe out the entire disk. It will just tell you that the selected partitions will be overwritten.
Anything on partition D: won't be touched unless you messed with partition sizes.

Cheers,

f14tomcat · 04 Jan 2021

Even more than just a "D:" partition. I have multiple partitions on my boot disk. Insider and RTM and RP, etc. I can easily backup just my RTM win 10 ( in box) and restore without affecting anything else.

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kado897 · 04 Jan 2021

f14tomcat said:

Even more than just a "D:" partition. I have multiple partitions on my boot disk. Insider and RTM and RP, etc. I can easily backup just my RTM win 10 ( in box) and restore with affecting anything else.

Yep, that's what I thought.

fdegrove · 04 Jan 2021

Hi,

You mean "without" affecting anything else, right ?

What would be a reason not to include D: partition in first place ?

Because it only contains data not pertinent to the OS ?

Cheers,

f14tomcat · 04 Jan 2021

fdegrove said:

Hi,

You mean "without" affecting anything else, right ?

Because it only contains data not pertinent to the OS ?

Cheers,

I have no idea what you mean......

CountMike · 04 Jan 2021

fdegrove said:

Hi,

You mean "without" affecting anything else, right ?

Because it only contains data not pertinent to the OS ?

Cheers,

I don't know about you but my data is more important than OS. Windows and programs I can replace but not my data. I backup my data more often and in more places than windows.

Bree · 04 Jan 2021

mck said:

Has anyone with a drive (SSD or HDD) that has C: and D: partitions on it, actually imaged ALL of the partitions (except the D: partition) and later restored the image to the drive without affecting the D: partition and then verified that the drive is bootable into Win10?

Yes, that is exactly what I do for my machines. Image all the partitions except the Data partition to an image on the Data partition. I have on occasion restored the image from the Data partition too. I have set up a 'Local Backup.xml' definition file for that. It's very convenient or a quick restore.

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My test machine, System Two in my specs below, take that to the extreme. It has images of every version of W10 from 1507 up to 20H2 plus Windows 7 on its Data partition, which I can restore whenever I need to.

Mind you, that means that a drive failure would mean the loss of the image too, so I then image all partitions including the Data partition to an external drive with an 'External Backup.xml' definition file.

fdegrove · 04 Jan 2021

Hi,
@CountMike
Sure but that doesn't mean you have to include your data in a OS backup. I don't anyway but we all have our habits, don't we ?

Cheers and best wishes to all,