Easeus todo for images?

Ok thank you very much. You have been so helpful. Tomorrow night I will try the toshiba drive due for delivery tomorrow with Windows own image software to eliminate whether the Samsung drive I have at the moment is at fault or whether it's Windows to blame. I'm going to use a different USB 3.0 port too. If it fails then I will use Friday night to download macrium, burn the iso and take an image of the entire drive. Hopefully macrium will do it faster than Windows, 650-700 gb takes about 4 to 5 painful hours which is why it's particularly frustrating when the backup fails. I wished if it was going to fail it would do it much earlier and save a lot of time.

Yes it's mostly static data or more precisely game installs. If I could do it all again I would of partitioned for a simpler life. The problem I have is all the installations, patches etc over the years. It's all pointing at C: in the registry so trying to split things up now would be quite problematic I guess. I don't mind doing an image which takes a few hours so long as I know it's going to work and not error right near the end as the Windows one seems to do to me now. I'd only plan on taking an image every month or two as nowadays not much changes on my PC. At the moment I am sweating because I have nothing since the last powered USB drive containing my last good successful image failed. Hopefully, if tomorrow's efforts fail with the new USB HD and using Windows system image, I will be sitting a lot more comfortably with macrium by the weekend. I'm just keeping my fingers crossed until then that nothing cataclysmic happens, now that would really be bad luck!

Cheers, Wayne

Sorry Wolfgang

One last question. I've downloaded your iso in readiness, thank you for sharing. I've downloaded the macrium installer from File Hippo. Under options it asks if I want to download reflect installer and PE components or just the reflect installer only. Do I need to download the PE components as part of the install? I'm guessing not as you've already supplied the iso? Shall I just opt for the Reflect Installer?

thanks,
Wayne

I really appreciate Macrium version 6 and all it is capable of. Yet version 6 has dropped the much smaller Linux repair disc found in version 5 which i like to keep on hand and use with folks who want a simpler program.

Filehorse still has the full download of version 5 and here is VirusTotal's scan of Filehorse's site: Scan report for http://www.filehorse.com/download-macrium-reflect-64/20302/old-versions/ at 2016-02-04 08:05:36 UTC - VirusTotal

Here is their download page for the Macrium Reflect Free Edition 5.3.7299 (64-bit) @ 51MB
Macrium Reflect Free Edition 5.3.7299 (64-bit) Download for Windows / Old Versions / FileHorse.com

whs's WinPE iso will work with this. And once installed version 5 can create the lighter linux disc.

Hope this helps :)