Select the disk then select ‘Clone this disk…’ which is shown under the selected disk. This will show a graphical representation of the disks that are attached to the system locally. Select the ‘Create Backups’ tab, then select ‘Local Disks’. This is important when upgrading to a bigger disk since it is typically faster than imaging the source drive and restoring it to the destination drive. It is possible to clone a full disk or individual partitions on a drive using Macrium Reflect. Macrium Reflect may backup whole partitions or individual files and folders to a single compressed, mountable archive file, which can then be used to restore exact images of the partitions on the same hard drive for disaster recovery or a new hard disc for data transfer. It may use Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service to build disc images and file backup archives to assure point-in-time data accuracy. Give it a try if you are looking for a disk imaging tool.Macrium Reflect is a backup application for Microsoft Windows that was released in 2006. That’s it for a quick overview on Marcum Reflect, I found it to be easy to use compare to some of the other tools we’ve covered earlier. This will come to handy if you want to boot into the new raw image without affecting your current Windows OS. VHD is new to Windows 7, if you don’t know what’s VHD we strongly recommend that you check it out here. Macrium Reflect also Let’s you convert an imagine to VHD Regardless, if you will be using the feature, it’s none the less a nice to have. Windows PE is short for, Windows Preinstallation Environment, it’s a lightweight Windows that mostly used by IT Pro’s to deploy Windows to workstations. Macrium Reflect Let’s you Create Windows PE DiskĪpart from the ubiquitous disk imaging/clone and restore functions, Macrium Reflect also has a feature that lets you to create a blank Windows PE rescue media. Apart from this, Macrium Reflect does a lot more than you might think. The only downside when using this tool is all the backup and restore images are generated into a proprietary format, other tools won’t be able to read.

The Free version is packed with many useful features on top of the basic function for disk imaging and disk clone. Macrium Reflect is yet another tool allows you to clone a disk to another disk that could be another attached local hard drive or network attached drive or CD/DVDs. We’ve covered tools before that lets you clone a disk image, check out some previous tools covered here and here.

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