Backup and Restore with Macrium Reflect  

kado897 said:

Don't forget to create the Macrium recovery disk/USB and test it at least to the point of being able to boot and locate your images.

And I highly recommend the boot option too:




After setting it you can set your boot delay to 0 seconds in advance settings:


It the Macrium PE will be added to Other operating Systems in Advanced Startup then, and you can access it there.

Cliff S said:

And I highly recommend the boot option too:




After setting it you can set your boot delay to 0 seconds in advance settings:


It the Macrium PE will be added to Other operating Systems in Advanced Startup then, and you can access it there.

Agreed you need both. Create the recovery disk/USB first. The boot menu option needs that to be created, it will use the same PE image you created earlier.

OldGrantonian said:

Excellent advice. Thanks.

I'm a cowardly wimp, so I actually have two HDDs to ensure that I have at least two copies of all my old files.
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Very sensible.

OldGrantonian said:

Thanks for all the help guys.

I can use an old laptop to test all these valuable suggestions.
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You're welcome

Hello people,

First off big thanks to OP for this useful and detailed tuto.
Thanks to the tuto I successfully installed Macrium and done my first system backup shortly followed by a differential backup after I installed few softwares after my clean install.

Though I still have few wonders.

I backed up my system onto USB flash drive (D:\) then I copy/pasted my images on my C:\ SSD drive. Will I be able to restore my backup from my C:\ drive even though it was initially backed up on my USB flash drive ?
I'll have to boot my Macrium's rescue device, browse for my system image to restore and start the restoring process ? Will it work knowing the image will be on the disk that will be rewritten ?

Also can someone shed some lights on that xml files ? What it is exactly doing ?
And why Macrium saved it on my onedrive document folder and not on the same destination path as the backup image ?

Thanks in advance :)

@Arese No you can't. When you do a restore, your hard drive the C: partition will be wiped out and replaced with the image. You won't be able to initialize the restore process with the image on the same drive.
If you want, you can create a separate partition just for the image.

I usually just uncheck the xml option and never bother with it.