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Dualboot backup with Macrium Reflect v5 of bootmgr
I'm currently looking at an imaging backup solution for my home computers and have heard of Macrium Free. I have a dual boot windows 7/xp setup that is windows managed (not BIOS managed). What I mean is that since I installed both OSes on two different partitions of the same disk, the bootmgr resides on one and not the other (the xp partition, that is, as that was the first os i installed). I then installed windows 7 next on the second partition side by side and win7 setup did what it needed to the bootmgr (again, located on the first/winxp partition) so that the windows boot menu asks me which OS id like to boot and not the BIOS itself.
This makes imaging both systems more complex as it might have been better to have installed each OS on their own hard drive and then remove the first OS disk when installing the second so that they both have their own bootmgr. That way, the BIOS detects the two systems (not Windows boot menu) and requests which one you want to boot. This makes two completely isolated systems where one does not rely on the bootmgr of the other. But I didn't do it this way since I'm on a laptop and only have 1 HDD to work with.
So my question is this: Does Macrium Reflect v5 Free isolate the bootmgr by itself and include them with the OS partition backups? IOW, if I wanted to backup my win7 partition to an image file, would I also have to include the whole winXP partition with it just so I can make sure the bootmgr stays coupled with it or will Macrium automatically isolate the bootmgr so that if I had to restore my win7 installation, my windowsXP installation stays untouched/unrestored? Hope I asked this clearly.
Oh... and BTW... I don't have that 100mb System Reserved partition because I used GParted for my partitioning and not the Windows setup utility. The bootmgr is on the windowsXP partition for sure.