It is extremely easy to use even for newbies and does exactly what it is designed to do, backing up your Windows system allowing an easy restore when something goes wrong.

I have tried most of them, been quite happy with some but never found anything that comes even close to Macrium Reflect. That being said there are quite a many alternatives for those searching for a free, easy to use imaging solution to create regular backups of your Windows installation. Lets start with this much! Once you learn to create a image of your OS, you will be fearless like me!:wink: This is a good way for me to spend my Saturday.I want to start with a very subjective, personal opinion: Macrium Reflect Free is the best available free imaging solution for Windows. There is so much you can do with this Program and if things go as I plan, I'll show you all the tricks and answer all your questions. If this old man can learn this, you can also. There's not a lot of options.Macrium has made this user friendly. You will have to use this program a few times to get familiar with it. That's pretty scary, but I'm going to try to show you how easy it really is.

Here's every thing you need to know about this program. I wish everyone would learn how to do this and I'm going to try and give yousome quick lessons.

This makes me fearless, knowing I can boot into Macrium recovery and restore my PC back to exactly like it was the day I created the image. When I shut down or reboot, I get the choice to boot into Windows 10 or boot into Macrium Reflect System recovery. I've been using Macrium for years and it has never let me down. I have a external drive where I always have 6 or 8 images of my OS stored.

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