Windows 10: Questions concerning restored images in macrium

I know cloning a drive will in essence replicate it, but I have a question about imaging your OS and data partitions.


If you image the OS and data partitions and restore them on a target drive......


will the restored target drive be able to boot Windows or just contain OS related files


If its not able to boot up your laptop will using a rescue disk to boot up from allow you to operate your pc?

:)

 

Correct Format for USB Stick | FAT32? | NTFS? | Some Other Format?

Windows 10 on PC.

I plan to use Macrium Reflect Free to create a System Image on a USB stick (not a removable USB drive). Macrium will create the Image as a .mcimg file. The file will be approximately 74 GB. In the future, when
I want to restore to the System Image, I plan to use Macrium to perform the restore. Because Macrium will be used for the restore, the USB stick does not have to be bootable.

Given this scenario, what format should be used for the USB stick? FAT32, or NTFS, or some other format?

Thanks

 

Windows 10 Build 16226 System Image Fails

Hello DUCKS151,

What are your saving the system image to....an external drive, a DVD disk, or an USB thumb drive? Windows 10
does not allow a system image to be saved to a USB drive....can't say why.....only the former two options.

Consider using a third party disk imaging program such as Macrium Reflect (Free Version) to perform disk imaging to an USB drive.

Backup and Restore with Macrium Reflect

Hope this answers your question.

Regards,

Wayne

 

Yes and No

You would want to Image your Drive...
As there may be other partitions required to boot your PC...

If one of those other required partitions is corrupt and you restore the OS and Data partitions, then you will still have issues with the PC

You should always do a full system backup (the whole drive)
then you could just do differential backups of the OS and Data Partitions...
As the two partitions will see the most file changes

Also Backups should be to external media, just incase of internal drive failure

 

To stave off, to reduce chances of, possible problems, during my backup routine, I will do a full image of Recovery Partition (only once for the first time), a full image every time of: System Reserved, "C drive" (OS partition), "D drive" (data partition). I use two external drives for each computer -- in case one of the two backup drives develops a "hiccup".

 

You can restore a bootable PC having all system & user files working provided you baked up all the partitions needed to boot Windows. That's the whole point of using imaging software!