macrium reflect not enough space to clone

If 'something happened' on July 23 and you restored an image made on March 3, the system ( AND YOUR DATA) would be as it had been on March 3. Pretty much, but not as if nothing had happened. mrimg file.ģ)Windows start the process of recovering all my data to a new *DIFFERENT* hard drive(?), and back to it's original state, with all my programs in tact as if nothing happened. More accurately-when you boot from the DVD, you are running off that DVD and the Macrium interface is what you see. If that happens, you are dead in the water.Ģ)Use it to point windows to my. You can't get yourself in a situation where your rescue media fails. You don't have to do it with every update, but sooner or later you will. I think Macrium web site can tell you when you should make new recovery media. You probably should remake this DVD/USB periodically if you update Macrium. How do you know it's bootable? I'd prefer to see you use a USB, but DVD will work. In case a disastrous incident occurs, whether that's my main C drive crashing, or my OS gets corrupted.

Well I don't have the space on my 2TB back up SSD to create a separate partition that I can copy all my data to, so I'll just buy a new SSD to replace the other one in case it goes bad. The problem you could have though if the HDD becomes defective you've probably lost both your OS and the backup - personally I'd get something like a 64 GB USB device and have program and backup image on that device. This way you can boot from 'D' to restore your system without needing an external device.

The size should be dependant on the backup size plus a little bit (around 5% say) extra and when backing up to this partition you can make it bootable depending on backup software used -Macrium can create bootable recovery image. It needs to be a primary partition - not part of an extended logical partition. You CAN use the same HDD that windows is on but it needs to be in a different partition - for example create say a 30 GB small 'D' partition for your image file.

Macrium reflect not enough space to clone