Imaging with free Macrium

Does Macrium Reflect Free Edition support USB 3.0 drives? Have you read the review from Softpedia? It made me a little uncertain wether to use this software or not, what do you think? Macrium Reflect Free Edition 4.2 Build 3141 user reviews - Softpedia

Edit/PS: I've read that one cannot resotre the Macrium HDD image on another HDD (different than the one that the image was made of), that'd be quite a drawback - is that true?

I've read that one cannot resotre the Macrium HDD image on another HDD (different than the one that the image was made of), that'd be quite a drawback - is that true?

No, it's not true - it's complete rubbish.

Where did you read that?

There is an old saying - believe nothing that you hear and only half of what you see.

There does appear to be an issue with usb3.0 - they will soon correct that, I expect.

Yes, you can use usb2 with their winpe disc as well.

However, it is supposed to be able to support usb 3.0 - that isn't working properly yet.

It may be to do with the program they use to install drivers to their winpe 2.1 image, as it seems to work ok if you do it manually - at least it then recognizes the drives .

Whether you actually get usb3 speeds on restore is another matter.

I don't know if this was covered, in this thread but can you use a USB Stick to create a boot drive as you would with a DVD with Macrium ?

Could someone explain what is the difference if any between Macrium and DriveImage XML I did a search but wasn't able to find any relative information.

They are different programs.

The confusion is because they both use .xml format for their imaging.

alright. I guessed their were different.