The emergency program finds your external drive containing your saved backup images. You are now running virtually-your hard drive is not even functioning. After a few seconds, you see the Macrium Reflect emergency boot screen pop up on your monitor. Start your computer the system now boots from your emergency drive or disk, NOT Windows. Plug in your thumb drive, OR load the DVD disk that you made earlier, and you have labelled "Emergency Boot Disk". Plug in your USB external drive containing your latest image. Let's say that ransomware encrypts everything on your drive. I use Macrium Reflect free edition for years and never had a failure.Įssentially correct, with a couple of additional steps.Īn image is exactly what the term implies you have an exact duplicate of everything on that hard drive stored in a single file and compressed. It is easy to do, but you do need an external HDD or SSD to store your images on.
That is what imaging was created for, exactly what you want. The great thing about them is that multiple images at different time periods can be stored on the same drive, the image includes all system, programs and data, and all data is immediately accessible any time you want it from any image at any time period. Most of the regular posters on this forum use image backups. Image backups are intended for safety of system and data in the event of a hardware failure or Operating System corruption, or even major virus attack damage as in ransomware. Generally folks are educated to cloning because the word is understandable. Cloning was created for immediate convenience when transferring one system over to an new drive, as when you build a new computer, for example. As others have already said, what you want is not a clone, but an image backup.
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