Backup and Restore with Macrium Reflect  

Thank you Kari

Kari said:

In any case, I wholeheartedly recommend you geeks to spend a few bucks and get a Home license. That's money well spent, investment in your future security and peace of mind.

Macrium Software | Home Edition

Kari

Thank you, Kari. And well said! Developers of wonderful software need support (i.e. money) to keep up their good work.

kado897 said:

Easy to do isn't it Mike?

Now when I know HOW.

Ice Hockey World Championships, my big passion, and quite serious allergic reaction to my first Covid vaccine have caused delays in everything I had planned.

Tutorial will be updated / rewritten within next 24 hours. My apologies for the delay.

IIHF - Home 2021 IIHF ICE HOCKEY WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP

Kari

Godspeed on your recovery from the reaction. It is worrisome so please let us know that you're okay.

Kari I am not that savvy so when I have the Macrium Free version do I clone the C: drive to my D: drive or just image it for backing up if I want to restore Windows 10 from Windows 11?

ICIT2LOL said:

Kari I am not that savvy so when I have the Macrium Free version do I clone the C: drive to my D: drive or just image it for backing up if I want to restore Windows 10 from Windows 11?

If you just want to restore back to your C: drive then the simplest way is to do an image rather than a clone. You will need to create a rescue disk to do the restore as you can't restore a running Windows system.

ICIT2LOL said:

Kari I am not that savvy so when I have the Macrium Free version do I clone the C: drive to my D: drive or just image it for backing up if I want to restore Windows 10 from Windows 11?

Take a look at Cloning vs Imaging: What's the Difference? | N-able for a description between the 2. Either will work. If you make changes to your documents, photos, etc. while you have Windows 11, then cloning won't restore those.

ICIT2LOL said:

Kari I am not that savvy so when I have the Macrium Free version do I clone the C: drive to my D: drive or just image it for backing up if I want to restore Windows 10 from Windows 11?

Cloning is faster. It's an exact copy of the source. The way I understand it is that cloning is usually used when the objective is to have a duplicate of that HDD - for whatever reason. Imaging takes longer but is usually used to restore your system to a particular state from your previous backup images. Imaging also has the advantage of being able to mount any image in your backup as an individual drive. So... that's how I interpret use cases.

ICIT2LOL said:

Kari I am not that savvy so when I have the Macrium Free version do I clone the C: drive to my D: drive or just image it for backing up if I want to restore Windows 10 from Windows 11?

For your purposes, creating a System Image with the backup image function is the way to go. Do not over-complicate it. Image backup and restore is designed for what you will need.