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Windows Live is being dumped however. Existing W.L.Hotmail accounts will remain available but now see the option for the new Outlook.com styled gui there while soon no new accounts will be allowed with the service being discontinued. Skype replaces the live messenger as well.
What that all shows is that any service like SkyDrive being web based is also subject to changes as well as being discontinued at some point by the provider(MS) on short notice. For laptop users on the go the cloud offers a safe temporary place to store things.
For those on the other hand who accumulate a lot of data, download frequently, and simply fill drives 7gb is only a drop in the bucket on the other hand compared to what other cloud services already offer as well as what will come.
Now what happened with Macrium is still an unknown while the Vista install back then was still on while 7 was being tested and the need for additional drive space prompted the look at the free Reflect download. All programs and data were there and packed into the image made at the time since the storage drive(external) was removed from the casing for internal use where the image was also going to be stored.
The drive that had Vista on it was then wiped for the 32bit RC install there while the 64bit RC install was made the host OS. both platforms were still provided looks while I knew back in late 2007 and later on in 2008 the 32bit Windows was on the way out. Following the 32bit install and then deciding on a drive letter change for that as well as the drive added in the restoration attempt to replace the 32bit RC then saw the "invalid image selected" type error message appear.
Note there wasn't any repartitioning of the drives as far as splitting them up as had been seen for the XP/Vista dual boot to add on both 7 betas(32bit, 64bit installs) on second primaries on each of the two drives present. Since the image hadn't had a chance to be tested at the time it could well have been corrupted when Reflect failed to create a good one. But either way it wasn't going to be a program under consideration for backup purposes.