
The lower portion of the dialog allows you to specify where the backup image is to be placed. The upper part of the resulting dialog will have been automatically filled in with the drives necessary to backup Windows for you. On the left, Macrium includes a useful button to begin the process:Ĭlick “Create an image of the partition(s) required to backup and restore Windows” to get things started. In addition, this drive has a master boot record (MBR). The System Reserved partition and the C: drive. The lower drive is our system drive and has two partitions: The upper drive is our backup drive – the D: drive. The example system that we’re backing up looks like this in Macrium Reflect:


I’ll walk you through creating an image backup using Macrium Reflect. Or put more simply – an image backup backs up everything. The system image (or image backup) of a computer includes everything on the primary hard drive that would be required to restore a working system to a completely empty replacement drive.
