Imaging with free Macrium

Cripes they are pushing them out fast. I think I'll just keep the PE disk I have already made.

Right Gary. There is no need to update the PE all the time - unless they tell us that the old one is no good any more.

I guess there was a problem with the previous one.

whs said:

Right Gary. There is no need to update the PE all the time - unless they tell us that the old one is no good any more.

I am working on that philosophy as well Wolfgang.
I'm assuming the patch upgrades are fixing specific minor bugs - if so then thumbs up to Macrium for being so proactive.

I have a question... can i just click "image this disk" on Drive C to backup my OS.. or do i have to move my docs my pict and my music back to its default location before doing the backup..?

Just image your C if you want to backup the OS. Make sure you image your 100MB system reserved partition at least once in case your disk ever fails. I would do that image seperately and stick it into a safe place. That partition never changes (unless one day you make a double boot setup).

But from time to time you should also backup your data which you can do with an image or a lot of other ways.

Hi fourthofjuly and welcome to Seven Forums.

You only need to burn a rescue disk once. From time to time a new version of Macrium is released and the release notes will recommend the burning of a new disk.

The important thing is to check that the disk works. That you can boot from it and find your image.

If I only backup the SSD (both the 100mbit system reserved and the C drive),, will those program still works when i restore it later in the future?

It depends. Some programs will just create new folders, but if a program relies on the info that is contained in the folder, the program (or at least one of it's functions) will not work.

Example: Macrium places the folder with the XML files into Documents. Next time you want to make an image, you just chose an XML definition and ask Macrium to make an image as per this definition. That, of course, will not work when you moved the folder with the definitions.


Bottom line: Don't move folders that were created by the system or by programs.

Also, the SSD has System Reserved and C partition. So... from your reply.. should i backup the system reserved and C together as 1 macrium file, or separately as 2 macrium file?

Make one image (one and only one) of the system reserved partition and stow it away in a seperate folder. You will need that image only when your disk breaks and you have to pull in the images to a new disk.

Then make images of C only as often as you feel necessary.

And don't forget to backup your data from time to time.