![]() We’ve been using it for seemingly forever, and it’s never let us down yet. If all you want to do is image your system or data, then Macrium Reflect Free 6 is a great way to do it. And much better than the six invoked by Acronis True Image. On the bright side, the free version of Reflect spawns only a single background process, down from the three that the pay versions create. ![]() ![]() See Macrium viBoot tutorial: Macrium viBoot - Create Virtual Machine using. Backup generally takes place during off hours or in the background, so we don’t lend performance a lot of weight in our evaluations. Macrium viBoot is a new application from Macrium Software that allows you to mount a Macrium system image (full, differential or incremental) as a virtual machine to extract files from it, add files to it, update your installed Windows on that image and even upgrade it. That’s about two minutes slower than any of the competition, though CPU usage was minimal. Macrium’s proactive approach creates security in an uncertain world Ransomware protection Macrium Image Guardian protects your files from Ransomware. You can use Max compression in Macrium, if you need to use less space on the HDD where the image will be stored, but it may take a little longer to create the image with Max compression. That might be nice, as Reflect Free 6 took just over nine minutes to perform our 115GB system backup. Use Macrium to image ( not clone) all partitions on the current SSD, saving that image on your internal 2T HDD or on an external USB HDD. Macrium claims increased performance for the latest version 7, of which a free version is promised soon. PE allows driver injection (adding them at restore time), so you’re likely okay there anyway. It also lets you choose the drivers you want to install. Reflect Free supports both MBR and GPT disks (it was late to the GPT game), and it has a great boot media creator, which lets you change flavors of Windows PE to best suit the operating system being backed up. Several flavors of the Windows PE boot environment are supported by Reflect Free 6 Macrium viBoot is now built upon new technology that allows it to instantly present a Macrium Reflect image file as a Microsoft Virtual Disk (.
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