We’ve been using it for seemingly forever, and it’s never let us down yet. If all you want to do is image your system or data, then Macrium Reflect Free 6 is a great way to do it. And much better than the six invoked by Acronis True Image. On the bright side, the free version of Reflect spawns only a single background process, down from the three that the pay versions create. all the stuff not on the C and D drives (checked all the partitions). I would like to know if I backed up all my apps and programs. I would like to inspect what I actually backed up. I have just completed a test backup to a WD MyBook external drive. Backup generally takes place during off hours or in the background, so we don’t lend performance a lot of weight in our evaluations. I selected Macrium because there are many tutorial videos explaining it. That’s about two minutes slower than any of the competition, though CPU usage was minimal. That might be nice, as Reflect Free 6 took just over nine minutes to perform our 115GB system backup. Macrium claims increased performance for the latest version 7, of which a free version is promised soon. Click ‘Next’ on the first introductory wizard page. OK, let’s begin Start Reflect and take the option ‘Create a backup image’ to start the backup wizard. PE allows driver injection (adding them at restore time), so you’re likely okay there anyway. In the last tutorial we stored our image file in a local directory so we can easily append an incremental image to this location. It also lets you choose the drivers you want to install. Reflect Free supports both MBR and GPT disks (it was late to the GPT game), and it has a great boot media creator, which lets you change flavors of Windows PE to best suit the operating system being backed up. Several flavors of the Windows PE boot environment are supported by Reflect Free 6
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