We strongly recommend that you create an image of your system at regular intervals. You would normally store the image file on local or network drives, or removable drives connected using USB or eSATA. In the event of a partial or complete system loss, you can use this image to restore the entire disk, one or more partitions, or even individual files and folders.ĭuring the imaging process, Macrium Reflect copies the contents of entire volumes including a reference to their physical location on the storage device to an image file (.mrimg). Macrium Reflect creates an accurate and reliable Image of a hard disk or the partitions on the disk. For Windows XP, Vista and systems without WinRE, Reflect will download the Windows Pre-installation Environment (also known as Windows PE or WinPE) directly from Microsoft. This lightweight version of Windows is called the Windows Recovery Environment (also known as Windows RE or WinRE) and is supplied with Windows 7 and later operating systems.
It contains a bootable, lightweight version of Windows and a full version of Macrium Reflect. This makes creating rescue media the first thing you need to do with Macrium Reflect. If you lose your Windows operating system, you can start your PC using Macrium Reflect rescue media on CD, DVD, or USB stick. These devices have slightly different restore requirements which Macrium Reflect handles seamlessly using features like SSD Trim support. More recently, magnetic disk drives have been replaced or augmented by other technologies like Solid-State Drives (SSD). These volumes and their file systems are the first thing you'll see when you start Macrium Reflect.įigure: Macrium Reflect showing the volumes and file systems on a system disk
So that the operating system can use different file systems or provide multiple volumes (like the C: drive, D: drive and recovery area), it partitions these blocks into volumes (sometimes also called partitions). So that the read-heads can store and find recorded data, the disk is split into blocks, usually of 512 bytes, which are numbered from the start to the end of the platter. The information on the platter is recorded and read by read-heads.
This permanent storage is usually a hard disk drive containing a spinning magnetic platter. Inside a PC, the operating system, applications and all your files need to be kept somewhere when the power is off. If you consider yourself non-technical this article should help you to start understanding the terminology, workings and concepts of imaging, backup and Macrium Reflect.
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