Macrium Reflect Free Questions

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tcg550
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Re: Maybe not, or I've misunderstood
In reply to Lyle Aldridge, 4 months ago

Lyle Aldridge wrote:

tcg550 wrote:

Yes to both questions.

It's free, give it a try to see both features.

The first yes is definitely correct. The free version does offer a choice of image compression settings - none, high and medium - and medium is recommended. It also gives the option of an exact copy. At the medium setting, an image file tends to be roughly 35-40% the size of the content of the drive whose image(s) it contains. Earlier this week, for instance, I used the free version to image a 250GB drive with about 130GB of used space in two partitions, and the image file is about 50GB.

However, I understand your second question to be whether the free version can extract discreet files or folders from an image, and restore only those files or folders, without restoring the entire image. If there is a way to do that with the free version, I haven't found it, and hope others will enlighten me if they have. Macrium's promotions seem to tout that ability as a reason to upgrade, but they're not all that clear about it.

Right click on the image file created by Macrium and choose explore. The image file gets mounted as a drive and you can copy individual files or folders through windows explorer just like any other drive.

Or from withing the program choose restore and look for the image you wan to explore and extract files from and choose explore from within the program.

I'm using version 5.0 of the free version.

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