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jraju:
Hi, On the other day, my son in his enthusiasm to gestures, has hard touched the harddisc cabin. After that, reboot system error occurs one or two time and he tried to bang keyboards in his effort to boot up. But totally failed . I just guessed that the connection would have gone wrong and just plug out and plug in the power and data cable connecting the hard disc. Luckily, i got the system to boot up.
                          Frequent power cuts and inadvertant mitake of hitting the cabin thus gave me an idea to look for alternative to t, ake a back up of os and all files, that i have in the pc and laptop.
                           I bought a ext.hdd disk and installed the macrium reflect. What is the diff between cloning and imaging. which is best . What i require is a full back up of os including alll the apps and program and all the files and data to image form and then when hdd is corrupted to restore.
which is best form cloning or imaging. I do not want incremental update of image or any other thing. i want a back up of all os and data on the backup  time and keep it in a separate place to restore back in case of eventuality of hdd fail or corruption.
                              please give the exact link if any available. I am confused with those concept of cloning and imaging. which is best pl

Boggin:
I have no experience of Macrium Reflect and use Windows System Image onto alternative ext. HDDs.

I create those once a month after Windows Updates, Adobe updates that usually come around at that time and any other program updates such as for CCleaner.

Adobe currently have released updates this month for Flash Player, Air and Reader.

However, to recover from a system image stored on an ext. HDD you need at least a system repair disk as in the case for Win 7 and an install disk for Win 10 with which to boot up with to navigate to the option for restore with an image.

It is for this reason that I have all of my laptops boot order permanently set to check the DVD and USB drives before the HDD so that I can insert either before I switch on.

You can insert a DVD before you switch on by waggling a suitably sized darning needle or straightened paperclip into the small hole that is in the disk drawer which will pop it open.

Samson:
In this case J, you will want to create a full image (forget about cloning for now...)

Imaging tutorial http://kb.macrium.com/KnowledgebaseArticle50074.aspx

You will then need to create a rescue media (USB as he has no functioning CD/ DVD drive) and test it to check it works,

http://kb.macrium.com/KnowledgebaseArticle50210.aspx

PS for rescue media to work on XP and Windows 7, which is what you want? Use Win PE 3.1 when creating the rescue USB.

http://reflect.macrium.com/help/v5/how_to/rescue/create_a_standard_windows_pe_rescue_environment.htm

jraju:
Hi, Thanks Samson,
                         Please clear this doubt
                             I have seen some tutorial and pl clarify,

Is the full backup means that the entire selected drives including the default selected c and reserved drives? on a particular time?
What is 12 backups shown in the diagram in full backup . Should i change to 1 there?
Should i need to check verify in advanced option? Will it not take time ? pl explain
Can i prepare restore disk after the back up , as separately in usb? Does the USB has to be made bootable before using macrium reflect free?(as in windows by listdisk command)
Can i expect answers from you on these. I have not used this before, and so I ask.
If i select all the drives, will it copy the application and other data files as in the pc at the time of take of back up. please

jraju:
Hi, please see this image,

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