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cloning or imaging which is best for restore in the even of hdd failure
Samson:
Test it out, you can just close it without actually making any changes to your system...you should be able to see the image (if you have made one) on your external HDD.
jraju:
As a user of program,
what would be first screen , when your pendrive starts rescue disk? Will it guide automatically to select or not to select so that i could go for the process or exit out of it.
Normally contr q would quit any thing running on screen.
Samson:
It will boot up into a windows environment, a cut down version of macrium reflect, with normal windows controls. Just do it, and with your external HDD attached open the restore tab and you should see the image that you have made. Then just close the program, it will be obvious how.
jraju:
Hi, thanks for valuable suggestions samson
Samson:
A few more tips for you :wink:
I keep backup images for different machines in their own named folders (ie the name of the machine as the folder name eg on my external HDD I have a folder named "DELL Laptop", "DELL PC" and another named "HP PC") the images for each machine go into their own named folder. It helps to be organised.
Also, when taking an image you can add a comment, to act as a memory jogger eg after the recent XP updates in June I added a comment "Post XP updates". I don't know about you but I have a memory like a sieve and need reminding of things later down the road :wink:
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