As one of the most popular Home and Server Operating Systems (some estimates place Windows 7 as the operating system on 26% of PCs as of December 2019*), many people will now have questions about the state of the Operating System. Thank you so much for clearing all this up, i searched everywhere online for help and couldn't find much, only how to create the image and restore it.On the 14th of January 2020, Windows 7 and Server 2008R2 reached end of life (EOL). The new drive worked exactly as the previous one did. Take that physical drive out, put in a different oneīoot from the Macrium Rescue CD I had created earlier, tell it which image and which new drive Just for my own peace of mind when I started using it, I tested this out specifically. Pagefile (pagefile.sys) and hibernation ( hiberfil.sys) will also be excluded'Īnd yes, it includes everything needed to reconstitute that image to a fully working, bootable drive.

Only backup the sectors that are being used by data on the disk. It also leaves off things that are not needed, like the pagefile and hibernation file. Does macrium do some compression with the files, or are some things missing from it? Does it include all the windows boot files and everything else? My main drive that the image is of, has 96gb of used space. The macrium made image is only 79gb while the windows one is 96gb. I also used the windows method so now I have 2 images, one in the macrium's format and one in windows' format. Ok so I have used Reflect and made an image of my main drive. I could recreate the system as it was on any day in the last two weeks. Macrium will do an Image of the entire drive, on whatever schedule you desire.Īnd if you wish, Differential or Incremental images as time goes on.įor instance.my system does a Full image every 2 weeks, and daily Incremental images between. The Windows System image is just that.the windows system stuff. Please let me know which is best and why.

So I would like to know which is best to use to make a full system image that I can use to make an exact same drive with all windows boot files and all my softwares and personal files, in case my main drive fails.

Macrium reflect 7 image system