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gvstn

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8. Macrium reflect

Mon Nov 13, 2017, 10:51 AM

Nov 2017

Should allow you to create a compressed version of the primary and boot partitions of the win8 drive. You could store this anywhere. You would also create a macrium boot disc. When time comes you would put your target hard drive in the machine and boot from the macrium disc to unpack the backup file . Probably easiest to have backup file on USB flash drive (don't use byte for byte backup because this would make a much larger file and is unnessesary.)
If you have an empty hard drive available you could test your backup before clearing the win8 drive.

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What's the best way to back up a Win 8 Pro partition ? (not usually a Windows user) [View all] eppur_se_muova Nov 2017 OP

If you want to clone a HD... Galileo126 Nov 2017 #1

That sounds good, thanks for the link. lpbk2713 Nov 2017 #2

Yes, the remaining space is 100% usable Galileo126 Nov 2017 #3

Thanks. Sounds like a nice utility to have in any case. nt eppur_se_muova Nov 2017 #6

Skip it Egnever Nov 2017 #4

OK, thanks. As I said, this is just in case ... and it has to be cheap--free. eppur_se_muova Nov 2017 #5

Well another issue is you don't have the actual license key Egnever Nov 2017 #7

Macrium reflect gvstn Nov 2017 #8

Thanks for taking the trouble to add such useful details ! I'll give it a try. nt eppur_se_muova Nov 2017 #9

I haven't used the program in about a year so my memory is not very clear. gvstn Nov 2017 #10