Windows 10: Restore Problem

Macrium Reflect 7

27 hours to write to a DVD?

 

If you're backing up to a DVD or DVDs, of course if you're imaging an entire disk.... What exactly are you doing, imaging entire disk and, if so, how many gigabytes is it?

Most people are imaging with Macrium to an external disk with 500 GB to 4 TB kind of sizes.

 

I don't have an eternal disk.
C/ is 356 GB which I thought to save.

 

That's A LOT of DVDs! Do you have another disk in your computer or just the one?

 

I had a external HD drive but it conected through the USB port. Not that good.
If your are connecting to another HD why not one in the computer?

 

What do you mean by "not that good"? Most folks either back up to an external that is connected to a USB port or to a network drive. I do it both ways.

You can get a 1 TB external USB drive for $40-$50 nowadays if the one you have is too small.

Backing up to a single HD inside computer would be not that good. If it fails, you're done.

 

It would take forever to burn backups to DVD's

Most use external hard drives or ssd's.

Please use this tutorial. We need to know what we are working with.

System Specs - Fill in at Ten Forums Site Use Tutorials

Jack

 

Seagate Backup Plus Slim 1TB Portable External Hard Drive USB 3.0, Blue (STDR1000102) Amazon $46.00 or

WD 1TB Elements Portable External Hard Drive - USB 3.0 - WDBUZG0010BBK-WESN Amazon $55.00

 

It would take forever to burn backups to DVD's

Most use external hard drives or ssd's.

Please use this tutorial. We need to know what we are working with.

By
JDobbsy1987


System Specs - Fill in at Ten Forums Site Use Tutorials

Jack

 

I've pretty much used WD externals and had no bad experience. There are folks here who will argue one or the other but I have no strong recommendation for you.

I see that the WD 1TB has plenty of good ratings as well as the Seagate 1TB.

 

So I use Macrium to save to the external HD. Computer goes black..nothing. How do i use the external HD?

BTW thanks for all your help

 

I hope you are asking what to do IF the computer goes black!

Here's a good and thorough forum tutorial on using Macrium: Backup and Restore with Macrium Reflect

One of the most important parts of using Macrium is to create Rescue Media (on a USB flash drive or even on the external disk with the backups, which is what I do) which you boot your computer from if the disk is trashed (but still physically working) and you can do the restore operation from the device you booted from.

Or, you could even have that Rescue Media burned to a DVD and boot from that.

From DVD or USB flash drive booted, Macrium will be able to see your connected external disk and do the restore.

If you use the 1TB drive as your rescue drive, you can either have it boot from a small (500MB - 1GB) FAT32 partition on that disk and have the rest of the disk allocated (usually in NTFS format) for storage of the backups.

There are lots of folks very accomplished at using Macrium here who can help you out if you get stuck.

 

Lots of things to learn. Thank you very much for your help!
First I need to get a external disk while I study the tutorial.

 

Absolutely not a problem.
*Thumbs

 

I guess I need a usb to usb cable?