You need to make the Rescue Media separately from the (Seagate?) USB hard drive which you will make and store your backups. If so, you are good to go in the event you ever need to restore a backup from your USB hard drive onto your computer hard drive(s). (You will need check into how make your computer allow you to do alternate boot up if it does not already.)Īssuming you did everything correctly and Macrium was able to automatically build the Rescue Media to include all the drivers that it needs to function, you will boot into the rescue environment where you will see the Macrium program and be able to see all your drives (your USB hard drive which does or will contain your backups and all your hard drives (especially the C: partition which contains Windows).
Once you successfully make it, you need to try it out by plugging in the USB stick and your USB hard drive, restart your computer, and press F8 to boot from the USB stick vs your normal computer startup. You need to make the Rescue Media separately from the (Seagate?) USB hard drive which you will make and store your backups.Įasiest is to use a USB stick/pen for making the Rescue Media (read the manual or Google on YouTube how to do). How do I test it? I have it on a Seagate portable drive. You can also manually pick and choose and delete ones you dont want later. So depends on how many you plan on making as to how many you want to keep (eg: if monthly, you dont need more than 2 -4 of them.
If you have more than one drive you can separately select that one and make another backup etc.įor retention keep as many full backups as you want, I believe the Macrium default is 12 full subject to drive space limitations. The display will show a checkmark by each of your partitions on the drive. That will automatically select all the system files/folders per the first option AND select the rest of the entire disk/drive including all partitions. Macrium easily makes a backup of your drives and folders necessary to restore your system, or (the one I suggest) is the option that says make and image of this disk. Suggest Backups are placed on a USB hard drive. Make sure you create a CD or USB Recovery and test it to ensure it boots your system into Macrium and your drives are shown and accessable. I agree incremental is a real pain, and running automatically just because seems a waste unless you have alot of activity each and every day. I use Macrium Reflect Free version since all I want is a complete backup of my primary disk which includes the C: partition and all hidden system partitions before installing the monthly updates, before installing a Feature update, and before performing anything of concern.
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