Windows 10: Macrium 6 used 15 DVD+R's to Image 83.01 GB in WIN 10 Pro

Mini Tool Partition Wizard is good and FREE. Used it for a while now and it works well.

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Wen:
I am an Acronis True Image user for over ten years and a former Norton Ghost user. I have both the Home user and Server version from Acronis. But will try the Macrium Home Free this weekend or next weekend!

 

When I had WIN 7 PRO on my Dell XPS-8700 (Desktop) I always used NovaBACKUP and my Seagate 1.5 TB External USB HD. Made flawless BackUps EVERY TIME !! When I Upgraded to WIN 10 PRO (through free Microsoft) I tried to BackUp with NovaStor V17 and it would not work. Upgraded to NovaBACK V17.1 and it backed up fine. I then tried to change WIN 10 Settings & Permissions and screwed the whole WIN 10 up !! Tried to RESTORE from NovaBACK 17.1 and it DID NOT WORK !! Had to reload WIN 10 again. Didn't even bother to load NovaBACK. Searched this WIN 10 Forum for a good, "working" BackUp and discovered Macrium Reflect 6. Didn't even download the Free Trial, just purchased Full Retail Version. I was ignorant and thought Macrium would only Image (BackUp) to DVD's so I bought a Spindle of Verbatim DVD+R (50) on Sale at Newegg !! Then a Forum Member told me to use my Seagate 1.5TB USB External HD instead of DVD's. Works PERFECTLY and 85GB only takes less than 15 minutes. I Booted from Macrium Rescue Media CD and tried to RESTORE. It started to Restore and I Stopped it, so I know it works. And with it's Compression it was about 60GB. I now BackUp my WIN 10 Every Other Day !!

 

Once you have Macrium throw everything else out of the window. It is that easy and good.

 

You can add Macrium to boot menu so you don't have to find the disk.

Click "other tasks" at top of Macrium screen and choose "Add recovery boot menu option".

Works for me.

 

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Macrium can back up just the system partition OR the entire disk, i.e., system partition, separate data partition and the hidden partitions. For me a full backup of the entire disk is the best alternative. I don't consider 83 GB too much to work with if you have a 1.5 TB external drive to store disk images on. Currently with the paid version, Macrium Reflect Home v6, I use the GFS scheduled backup template, modified to my own schedule and retention policy, to do full, differential, and incremental backups of my laptop's entire disk to a networked 2 TB Desktop External USB drive. I've also made a number of full disk images on a 1TB portable USB drive using the rescue CD WinPE environment all along the path through Win 8.1 to Win 10 upgrade to Win 10 clean install.

 

I "Backed Up" (Image file) the ENTIRE COMPUTER 85GB today and it only took 11 minutes !!

 

Using Acronis boot cd takes me 7 mins for a complete backup of partition and Windows 10 to my 2nd hard drive on my computer. Restoring any backup I want takes about 6 mins. works for me.

 

Thanks for tip on USB - good buy even tho shipping was $9.95.

 

I too use Acronis and i love it, i have been able to back my lappy every day, i did my last back about 15min ago on to a 64gb usb drive...it took about 7mins and once compressed it used about 32gb. and if i need to do a restore, it takes about 10mins tops to do...

 

Temple University WRTI radio streams some of the best Jazz.

Listen Live to WRTI (Temple University)

Over Labor Day weekend. the station will broadcast the top 100 jazz songs voted by listeners.

You can save the m3u file and play it on many modern media players instead of the web player
(I use VideoLAN VLC).

Right click either (or both) Listen Live link on the WRTI page and select Save link as.. - give it a memorable name and then you can just launch the stream any time without going to the web site.

The Classical stream is just as good *Wink.

To make it even easier, here are the link addresses of the streams
Jazz: http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/wrti/ppr/wrti2.m3u Classical: http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/wrti/ppr/wrti.m3u

 

Folks ... you ALL need to understand that the time that is required for backups is different for everyone's PC. One person might complete it in 5 minutes; another might take 45 minutes. What is useful to the OP is to see a general range of times so that they understand that several HOURS is outside any typical timeframe.

So, if mine takes only 5 minutes, and the OP's takes 15 minutes, that does not mean that there is anything wrong with HOW they are doing their backups. But there are sometime options that can be changed to speed up the backup process.

MR (the tool I use) for example, allows for different compression rates. The greater the compression factor (what they call High), the longer it takes to do the backups -- but the less space the backup takes on the disk. So, if my backup was taking longer than I liked, I could reduce the compression level and it would take less time.