Macrium Drive Image and Restore - this saves massive amounts of time
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- Опубликовано: 19 июн 2024
- Here's a step by step guide on how to image your OS drive and the restore it either to the same PC or to another PC. This software protects your entire system and is well worth purchasing. This is not a sponsored video. We just rate this software so like to pass on the knowledge to others. Macrium reflect is free for home users only in a non commercial environment and has limitations, however the useful option of drive imaging and cloning is available in their free version. If you want full data protection then you should purchase a license to unlock all the features.
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I have been trying to find a straightforward video for a few days, now. Out of every video, I have found this was the clearest and most in-depth breakdown I have found. Thank you for the simple - yet professional - walk-through!!
Glad it was helpful and thanks for your lovely comment. 🙂
I felt your pain 🎉
Note that before you start the system imaging you should check your USB stick/external drive's format for if it is FAT the files will save in batches of 4 GB instead of one single compact file. You need to switch the stick's format to NTFS
I've been trying to clone my old disk to no avail and without this video I'd probably still be trying. Thank you for taking the time to guide us through the process, I am writing this comment from a succesfully restored image!
Awesome! That's great to hear and thanks for your nice comment 🙂
finally a goood step by step of the whole process it took me all day to find this. everyone else did not explain everything thank you
Thank you very much. Macrium should thank you, too, as I will now become a customer of this product. Your explanation about everything was clear and concise. I'll definitely check out your other videos--you could probably get a job from multiple tech companies explaining all of their products' capabilities to laypeople.
Very clear and precise. Congratulations!
Appreciated your video... I've done this before, but it has been several years, and this time was much easier because I didn't have to relearn the process--I just watched your step-by-step video and saved the image to an external HDD. The next project is to image a few old PC's so I can run them as VM's on a new one.
Thank you SO much. Been battling for days with a clone to new SSD giving data read errors. Tried sooooo many ways. This is the only way that worked. THANK YOU
Fantastic video. Thanks for sharing! We've been using Macrium Reflect for years saving monthly backups. Today this effort finally paid off when a user corrupted our laptop by getting scammed with malware that took over the machine. This video showed exactly how to restore our data to return the laptop to a state before being infected.
Legendary, wanted to upgrade my hard drive and cloning didnt work. This did the trick. Was very clear. Thank you
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Thank you SO much for this! I have been struggling for hours to clone a failing drive to a new SSD, but the clone process kept failing due to bad sectors. Thanks to you and this brilliant video, I was able to clone the drive by using an image. Great video, thanks again.
It's a really useful tool that makes easy work of cloning. Glad it worked! 🙂
Same here. Was trying and failing for days with different methods and software....freakin error after error until this. So happy now
I've always heard that this program was incredibly useful and easy to use. thank you for clarifying how it's so easy to use it. I'll now attempt to switch the SSDs between my two laptops so my faster one gets the 500 GB and the old one gets the 250 GB. wish me luck
Thank you for the informative rundown friend! Much appreciated
Superb tutorial.m I'm not in the need for this action but it's great to know how to perform a backup with such ease thanks to your video.
Thank you very much for such a detailed video very well explained keep the good work up.
Perfect tutorial and explanation. I have 4 different machines and have dedicated 4 SSD's to each to clone their respective systems. Now I can use 1 large drive to create images of each one instead and repurpose the other 3. I was hesitant to do images because I thought that only the OS would be created, leaving out the various installed programs, pictures and videos. This video was very helpful, thank you.
Excellent tutorial. Thanks so much.
Thank you so much, pretty easy to understand tutorial.
God bless you man 😭❤️, i had tried cloning 6 times from 2 days but was getting errors due to corrupt stuff.... This method helped me clone easily in 2 hours in iteration 1 , thank you ❤️
Very good video, clear with step by step instructions
Glad it was helpful!
Great video, so clearly explained.
Thank you for uploading this amazing video
An absolutely brilliant video.sir very clear,and methodical ,very helpfull indeed,thankyoubso much for posting
Glad it was helpful and thank you for the feedback. :-)
Excellent Tutorial
Great video!
Thanks
Thanks. Very helpful.
very nice tutorial video! thank you so much for this! God bless!
You're very welcome!
I was still using version 7.3 so had a mild heart palpitation when things didn't look the same but it all worked out and my corrupted OS is working fine again. Many thanks
I've come back to this video as I'm going to transfer an image of a fresh install from a standard HD to a SSD. I noticed that you skipped over the viBoot option. I have already chosen to install it (after a quick google and reading that there seems to be more pros than cons) but came here to see what you did and was curious why you never even mentioned it? It doesn't look like Frimley Computing respond to many (if any?) questions so maybe someone else can say if viBoot is worth installing?
@@hotblack1166 where did you download the old version? seems like they removed the free version from macrium reflect 8
Extremely helpful, thank you! During the process of selecting the drive that has the image at 12:00 in the video, can the image be located at a network location? I do not have a USB drive big enough, so instead I made the image to my home NAS. If not, I should just be able to pull the drive from my NAS and plug it into the system. Thanks again!
Excellent video!! I'm going to take my windows 11pro PC and clone it to my 2008 computer. Should work? Thanks again!!👍👍
TY SO MUCH !!!!
Great video, how are you recording screen? When computer OS is not running...
Excellent video but if you have a zoom option while recording, then I would use it when your selecting different items and when a new small screen pops up.
Thanks for the tip!
Thank you very much
Good tutorial but what if I do system image for just "C" partition only and not include "D" and "E" partitions of that same internal hard drive, so suppose in future if I need to restore my system image which has just the "C" partition, so will the other partitions (D,E) be affected or formatted/deleted upon the restoration of that system image? Or will the other partitions remain intact as original states as they weren't disturbed in the first place ??
Wish i could give it a double thumbs up
Is it best practice to image the Os volume while running the Os volume being imaged? Isn’t it better to use Win PE so you can keep the OS volume static during imaging process?
Great video and Txh..One Q , what if I have RAID 1 . is procedure the same ?
Question 1: Since both disk are on MBR format can i just put the image onto the rescue media (all in one drive)
Question 2: I have a dell computer, and I cannot get into the Macrium Reflect recovery media (booting into there from boot menu/ Win PE / rescue drive).
Does macrium consider the unique system id's when imaging? Like sysprep
Is there any value in the cloning option? Its said to be faster. But I tried it and it booted to a blank blue screen only. Next I will try the image method.
Just a thought, since I do Dell's, what I've done with Macrium (yes I have a commercial license as well), is have a donor machine that has a fresh install on Windows 11 and is kept updated. I take the drive out of another machine and using an external drive bay, simply clone the donor to it, pop the drive back in, uninstall Macrium, change the machine name, and it's out the door. I find it much quicker than the way you've done it.
I attempted to use this software a couple of years ago to transfer data from a laptop Drive to a new Samsung SSD. The cloned Drive would not boot so I instead used the Samsung utility to copy the drive and everything worked without issue. That really shook my confidence in the Macrium software.
Did you set the SSD as an active boot device? The system can't boot from it if you don't.
@@MK-Slinky hmmm Don’t know. I’ll have to try it again someday. My point was that the Samsung magician utility did everything that needed to be done to then simply pop the drive in and everything booted fine. Perhaps the Macrium requires an additional step?
You would need to go into your bias and change the boot drive order to test the new drive.
I had the same issue and got a blue screen error. I went into bios and made sure the new SSD was boot 1 and still doesn't work...
Does this work without copying the entire OS system? I’m going to do a fresh install but I want to backup folders / apps to move over to my new OS system.
Very good
Great video. New to Reflect 8 and just using this for the home. I am used to Acronis True Image. I created a backup of my C: drive and output to my SSD on the same PC call it backup A. I want to create the same backup settings but the output would be to my external usb drive (a backup of a backup) - call this backup B. At the same time backup A will run 1st and as soon as backup A finishes, automatically backup B starts and after the backup is done, it shutdowns the PC. How do you do this in Macrium Reflect 8.
So I had a 300GB system drive HDD of which 150GB was used.. while cloning the same to my 450GB SSD I selected all of the SSD volume. Later when I tried to make a partition of my SSD, I could only get a partition of 150GB out of the 450GB. Is there any way I can create a partition out of the cloned 300GB SSD?
If I'm tryna create an image of my HDD, and I already have another SSD with me for the windows boot up, I don't need to do the CD ROM/USB bootup method, correct?
after backing up the system image do you guys have the same note file "Reflect_Install" plus a flie named "boot" that has another note file named "SearchPaths" can those files be deleted? thanks for your answers ☺️
so all cloned computers would have the same windows 10 product key? it wouldn't ask you to activate windows again? or, is that a problem of past windows OS?
Thankyou
At my work I have to set up new computers once some of the old ones failed and/or broke, obviously many software and files have to be installed in the new computers, but most of the times those new computers are completely different from the old not-running ones.
Is it possible to install an image to a new computer with completely different hardware?
Regards.
I wonder if you have get a new product key or product id to be completely legal since you restore windows on a different pc
Nice video however some fine points not covered?
I have an old PC for my wife and I want to buy her a new PC desktop of a different brand name. So do I first create a bootable USB on the new PC then download Marium refect home so I can run an image file of her old pc? its just the steps to take 1,2,3,etc to make sure I dont destroy everything, Hope you can help brgds Roger
Can this be used as a golden image for other dissimilar machines?
so bsically, instead of cloning (which can be failed), we shoul do backup image and then restore from there? is that right?
Hello, please tell me why the macrium after restoring the backup turns off some services, and the ssd speed drops
The 10gb image file from 30gb of used drive space is very good compression indeed.
Thank you for the video. You demonstrated the case where you restored an image on a drive already in use and the data overwritten by it.
What if on the drive where I intend to restore the image, I’m having problems such as windows ones or just viruses?
Can I just first format the drive and only after the format, restore the image on it? Will in this case be created all the same partitions like on the image, or like on the drive itself as it was when creating the image?
When creating an image you may want to encrypt it to protect from viruses. The software should give an option to format drive and place the partitions on the new drive as it was on original. If the drive is a different size it will compensate properly in all cases I've seen.
PS I'd use PARAGON Backup & Recovery Community Edition seeing how this software is now behind a paywall and they are discontinuing free version.
You have restored the system but, to the same PC where you saved the image made before or to another PC, this is not clear in your narration, either you explained in case you are copying the image from one PC to another, how function the network configuration from one PC to another, great video and thank you
Thanks!!
No problem! Glad it helped.
Thank you for sharing this! I am following these exact steps, but I get a stupid error when creating a Folder that "The destination path is included in the image. Please select a different folder."!! And selecting a different folder does NOT gives the SAME erorr! I have paused and looked at your video settings and with the exception of DRIVE letter, I am using the EXACT steps! Disk Image is my last resort cause I keep getting Error 9 on Macrim despite BOTH disks being SSD and connected internally!
Is it possible to use Macrium or a similar tool to create an image or backup of my disk without including the operating system? The objective is to preserve my layout, files, apps, programs, and games while excluding the potentially problematic OS. Afterward, I plan to reset or perform a factory restore, and if that resolves the issues, I want to use the image that doesn't contain the old OS but has all my data with the new OS. However, my issue here is that I don't know how to extract or take out the OS and I'd be making an image of the whole thing on the drive.
Hello, please someone help me. I have a Windows 7 computer and need all the information along with the programs to be restored on a Windows 11. Is it possible?
What happens if you image a hard drive that is MBR and you want to restore it to another computer's hard drive that is GPT?
A little confusing, as you talk about cloning the drive but use the image option even though a clone option is also available. In your scenario, what is the difference between a clone and an image.
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Good video !When i downloaded MR and went through the steps the program did not appear, I kept trying it about 3 times but it did not appear. what's wrong? Also i tried PW Mini Tool to do this but it seemed to copy my original and put the files on the original drive and filled it up. what did i do wrong. How do I find the copied files and dump them? Thank you
nice
Never mind I have a new problem I need help with lol. When I start the restore process the screen turns off somewhere through the first 10%. Then I have to start all over and bout it up again.
Why delete the partitions from the device being restored to? Won't the restore just overwrite them anyway?
I am trying this to a new machine. The old software does not work on the new operating systems.
Does anyone know how to do this process for M1 macbook?
Hi, my problem comes now when I want to restore and the disk selection option can't see any disk in order to restore. Do you know why? Thanks
You prob just need to 'initialise' the target disk first, then it shoud show up.
But I could be wrong as I'm talking about a brand new disk...
Is there a way or a software that just copies the folder and files in the original source structure so when i connect the "destination" hard disk to another pc i can read those folder and files normally, without me needing the backup software to read or restore those files? I can not find one. I tried many and they all, after the backup, create ONE SINGLE FILE that can only be read from the software that created it. And if i connect that external HD to another pc, I can not read those copied files coz the backup software is not installed in that second pc.
Bvckup 2 is what I found for doing individual file-based backups -- my resulting backup is just a normal filesystem with normal files which I can open directly or copy back to the boot drive en masse or individually.
TWO DAYS!!! TWO DAMN DAYS OF SUFFERING UNTIL I FOUND THIS MACRIUM MESSIAH ❤
i tried every cloning method possible using wintohdd or this method but failed and the only way i see using is to make an iso file to the hdd
Excellent... Do I need to create a Rescue Media for each of my three computers or will one work for all? Windows 10, 64 bit, Macrium Reflect 8.0 on all computers.
One will work for all 3, but if using a laptops you will want to double check to be sure Hard drive is recognized you may need Intel or other RTS Drivers downloaded from manufacturers website.
@@Crazyd_ Thankyou John
I need to do something a little different. I have a new drive with windows 11 pro installed. My old drive that has programs and data on it is windows 10 pro N. I want to clone everything from the old drive (except the windows pro 10 N version operating system), to the new drive that has windows 11 pro operating system on it, and not destroy my windows 11 pro operating system. In other words migrate everything from the old drive, except the old operating system, to the new drive that has windows 11 pro operating system installed, so the new drive can run everything without having to reinstall everything. Can this be done?
In simplest terms ... No. Installation of Programs for the most part isn't cloneable I've rarely have had much survive from One OS to the Next. Windows 11 seems even more uncomeatable than most. Data should be easily enough backed up from Profile, but Software just doesn't work.
Good afternoon,
I need help with restoring the image. I got to the part where you delete the partitions on the destination drive and are about to click next. When I click next it tells me I have insufficient space on the destination drive even though it’s 478gbs while the back up is 253gbs. You’re response is much appreciated.
Thank you
Hold on I figured it out. If anyone has this problem just drag the partitions individually instead of all at once. You might have to drag the smaller partitions first, then the largest one so they are all resized to fit the destination size. This is because the destination size is a smaller geometry than the original drive. So you’re partitions might be in a different order but that shouldn’t be a problem.
Im getting an error , it says SELECTED BOOT IMAGE DID NOT AUTHENTICATE. can you help me?
I've been a very happy Macrium Reflect user for years but recently had a the following issue : RESTORING FROM THE BOOT USB RESCUE DISK COULD NOT DETECT THE PRIMARY C: DRIVE MAKING IT USELESS. I turned my laptop upside down trying to resolve this (deleting/recreating partition; reinstall of Windows 11; nothing worked ! The problem was not with Macrium, but with Acer/Intel. There is a driver provided on the Intel site called "RST Raid driver". Issue solved !
Yes Dell Laptops have this driver issue as well. Seemingly Microsoft has a spur up it's butt with Intel Driver's or just chipset drivers in general. Just to install Windows 11 on my Dell Laptop (Not using Dell OS Install) I had to download the same driver.
Intel-Rapid-Storage-Technology-Driver-and-Application you must extract the driver and then 4 Folders deep is the driver. Depending on the version folder may vary. \production\Windows10-x64\15063\Drivers\VMD
Do all of them have to be checked on othe C drive to image or can you just image the one main portion
Yes all drives. One is required to point where the OS is and the other is the "Recovery" drive which boots if you have blue screen of death issues.
I came here to see if I could use the Macrium software to backup my programs so I can do a full backup(or Clone disc?) of my old SSD which is stuck in the state of unable to upgrade from 2004 to newer versions due to failing update installation. I thought I may be able to do disc image or clone my drive, then reformat the SSD to wipe it and then do a clean install, then just transfer my programs from the backup? Do you know if this would be possible? If so is there somewhere I can watch how exactly to do this?
Unfortunately you won't be able to transfer installed programs. You will need to do a reinstall of the applications once you've done a fresh Windows installation.
@@FrimleyComputing cheers for that, I suspected as much as it's really hard to nail down a definitive answer to this issue of saving and transferring programs with this type of software, I had guys on forums telling me to use Macrium to do this, but on watching youtube vids I hadn't found any specific tasks in any software relating to saving programs.
Can I restore an image to a certain partition of the disk? I have a Windows 10 installed and I created an empty partition D: with 500mb. I tried partition D: but it reimaged the whole disk.
Yes, you can image a specific partition. You just need to make sure the only the partition you want to image is selected so untick all other partitions.
This is exactly why I hate personal computers. Once you know how to do this, it's easy. You simply need to spend XXXX hours of your life diddling around to learn this stuff. If cars required this kind of maintenance from the user, we'd all be riding bicycles.
*So true!!!!* 👏👍
Here's a step by step guide on how to image your OS drive and the restore it either to the same PC or to another PC, that's exactly the same.
I am a bit confused with what happened. Firstly we create a windows image into a Usb flash disk-a and then we create a bootable rescue drive on another Usb flash disk-b. While we want to install this image we plug in both usb drives to install both windows image and drivers. Did I get it right? I have a 232 GB Usb drive and created the windows image but when tried to create a bootable rescue drive then it basically overwrote onto my Usb and even reduced its size down to 1gb as if the rest is unallocated. I would be thankful if I can get any help from you sir. thanks for the video.
Same doubt did you find answer
@@user55-94 not yet
Nice video tutorial. Too bad Macrium Free is no longer available for download and will stop being supported by the end of this year.
why are you changing the name of the computer? ...the computer will have the same name as the backup, right?
I'm going to make my manager buy this. I just texted him.
This is not what I'm looking for. I want to be able to reinstall Windows on another machine. Not restore it while it's up and running. I guess macrium can't do that?
Welp they just announced the free version is being discontinued. Oh well.
Sir double thumbs up means , like + unlikel = null 😅😄
He has a folder called MUMS hehehe
Hello. Are you on glue?
Anyone considering buying Macrium Reflect 8, my advice, DON'T!
It has a poorly designed UI and UX, not at all intuitive. Doing a restore is very cumbersome requiring a reboot to bootable RESCUE media on USB or DVD to complete the process.Why call it rescue instead of restore. I attempted to restore a BACKUP, which they call an IMAGE, but it failed. If I could sue them, I would.
It sounds like you've not added the restore option to your boot manager. When you boot the PC once you've done that you get an option to enter the Macrium restore partition or boot to Windows.
This method only works if the two disks are the same size.
Erm, no it doesn't. The drives can be different sizes. If the drive you're cloning to is smaller then just clone the partitions at the start of the disk including the OS partition. The system uses TRIM so it works fine.
@@FrimleyComputing fantastic. Thank you very much for the the reply. 🍻.
Looking for a video on "how to make an image of a disk using macrium reflect". Tried first the Macrium website as they have exactly what I want. Unfortunately I am from the U.S. and do not speak nor hear in "English Language" the way the British speak. Sad but true, can not even understand the pronunciation and have spoken to others that feel the same. It is great if you grew up and speak like a Brit but there is a great many who don't. Let me see if I can understand this video.
edit: Ok, I am only 2 minutes into video and the presenter's accent is something I can CLEARLY understand. Even though it is obviously made by a British speaking person it is clear for someone like myself that speaks and hears growing up in the U.S. I'm not knocking it but seriously...others have to have the same problem as myself trying to follow a technical video by some British citizen's. The pronunciations is not clear and they should not be the presenter. That is my opinion.
Hi 61, I had to read your comment a few times before I understood your point. The 1st paragraph and 1st sentence in the next paragraph were clear but then I thought you were knocking this video presenter. Now I think I get it, you were praising the Frimley presenter for his clear speaking (which I fully agree with & think he did a great job) & then you were referring to (criticising) other Brits who are not clear at all with their vids, which I also fully agree with. I am also a Brit (in fact used to live not too far from Frimley) and often have a problem understanding videos because of the presenter speaking far too quickly and/or slurring some words, both English & American 🙂. Jayzee is a good example but because I love his style & obvious huge knowledge I persevere even though I often have to 'pause & rewind' to understand 🙂. Regards, Ray.
@ 61spindrift and Ray Brown: Yes, I know what you're talking about. The official Macrium video on this topic is very hard to understand. Of course, I can't find the damn thing now, but I know what you mean. The speaker in that video has a very strange British accent. Not a normal British accent at all. Very hard to understand. And no captions, either. 😠
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