It's very easy to use and can really save your life! If you are looking for alternatives, we recommend you to try Acronis True Image and EaseUS Disk Copy. Does macrium reflect work with Windows 7 Reflect works on XP, Vista, 7 and 8. This is a restriction imposed by Windows. Important: Windows cannot boot from a USB connected drive. I ignored it and started the cloning process. Cloning your hard drive creates a bootable new hard drive with the state of your computer at the time you undertook the clone. Before cloning, I noticed that Macrium showed a RED bar in one of the 4 partitions (not big, 502Mb). If you care about the safety of your documents, take a moment to create a mirror image of your hard drive with Macrium Reflect. I am using the Macrium Reflect Free hoping to clone my failing HDD to a new SSD, so that the new SSD will replace the old drive as boot drive as well. Also, Macrium Reflect lets you create rescue disks, but unfortunately only for Linux, Windows XP and Windows Server 2003. What doesn't seem that easy is the scheduled backup tool: it works with XML template files and novice users will surely find it confusing. Restore to a computer other than that backed up, other than its replacement. Macrium Reflect is very easy to use because it lets you create images via an assistant that guides you through the whole process in just a few simple steps. A: Reflect Free should not be used for: Backup of a computer other than that on which it is installed. Of course, disk images don't make sense if you store them on the same hard drive you're copying, so you'll need to use an extra storage device (external or not) or a networked drive to save your mirror image.

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