

See separate Video/tutorial for details.The software provides extensive backup scheduling options so you can program it to run during your preferred times. When restoring system Image to a new hard drive: remove old hard drive and install new hard drive then boot computer with Windows PE rescue media (CD or USB) (or use Linux rescue CD) and use the rescue media to restore.


Note: If you are restoring your system Image or whole hard drive Image (which includes system partitions) to a new Hard drive then don’t follow this tutorial. This tutorial assumes you have a backup image of a system drive and this section of the tutorial should be used for restoring to your original hard drive. Although this sounds complex, it really is very simple to perform.

Macrium then restores the filesystem before rebooting again and loading the main version of Windows. In order to get around this problem, Macrium uses Windows PE, a cut down version of Windows which is booted. the 'C drive' containing the operating system files, it is not possible to restore files in real time because they are in use by the current session of the operating system. When you click OK, you can then follow the steps in the first part of this document to complete the restore.Ī Youtube video outlines some of the basic issues discussed here:
