Macrium Reflect. Anyone Using it Any Comments?
I'm in the process of downloading the free program so I can image my OS. I'm curious what users of this program think about it.
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I just went through this. My Win 10 laptop HDD had a bad sector. Windows could not repair it, despite many attempts on my part. It was still functioning but I wanted to upgrade to a SSD.
Windows Backup would not back up the files because it reported they were on a corrupted drive. It would make a system image to a separate USB HDD I have. But I could not manage to restore it to the new SSD, because I bought an SSD smaller than the original drive. Even though there was enough room, the smaller size is not allowed by the Windows restore.
I bought a USB to SATA cable in order to simply clone the drive directly.
Macrium Reflect, like Windows, would not image the corrupted drive. The software recommended by the SSD maker would not work either, but I forget the failure. That was NTI Echo 3.
I tried and failed with a couple of others.
Finally I found one that would work with the corrupted drive and a smaller SSD. It is DriveClone11 from farstone.com. It was free. It worked but there was a boot error the first time I turned on the SSD. But a repair button came up, I pressed it, and it worked. It's been great since then.
Windows Backup would not back up the files because it reported they were on a corrupted drive. It would make a system image to a separate USB HDD I have. But I could not manage to restore it to the new SSD, because I bought an SSD smaller than the original drive. Even though there was enough room, the smaller size is not allowed by the Windows restore.
I bought a USB to SATA cable in order to simply clone the drive directly.
Macrium Reflect, like Windows, would not image the corrupted drive. The software recommended by the SSD maker would not work either, but I forget the failure. That was NTI Echo 3.
I tried and failed with a couple of others.
Finally I found one that would work with the corrupted drive and a smaller SSD. It is DriveClone11 from farstone.com. It was free. It worked but there was a boot error the first time I turned on the SSD. But a repair button came up, I pressed it, and it worked. It's been great since then.
