Just feel free to do it the way you want, everybody has their one way of making a backup. The point is that you stated it was the only way to go back to a working system, I do not agree. Here is what I do: 1. Install Windows and all the updates you want. 2. Install all the software you want. 3. Make an image. 4. Tweak all the settings you want and every time your PC is running fine make an image. To make an image with Macrium Reflect is super easy and takes 4 minutes on my PC. After a while you can delete old images. If you train yourself to do this, you always can go back to an earlier point. People may ask why I don't use System Restore. In the past I have experienced System Restore is not reliable, it sometimes does not what it suppost to do. Sometimes can't even restore at all! In the old days with Ghost and nowadays with Macrium Reflect I am a happy tweaker!
I found that if I log in with admin rights it works just fine. Otherwise will not connect for me either.
Fact is, if you like to use the extended features of Macrium Reflect it get's quite expensive while the Free Version is just quite limited. I had 2 bad images with Macrium Reflect as testing some times ago and that keeps me out from use it again. What I need to do by creating an Image of an System HDD (NOT SSD!!) is to create that Image from the whole content of that HDD. In my cases it's never below 120GB, most of the time above 200GB! While using HDClone 5 Enterprise, it gives me the ability to clone at the same time up to 16 HDD's what MR couldn't! I've 12 WindowsToGo drives out with my staff for servicing customers and I've another 8 drives in my office for the same purpose. Those later I use for to test new OS'es etc. like Windows 10TP. Simple fact is, the cost for the software (HDClone) is much less than Macrium Reflect would cost me for my needs! Second major point for me is that I never had problems with any of the stored Images, which I keep on 3TB HDD's. Those are in my Data Safe if not needed. Now the whole gets even better for me because I could create the Master from an normal installation with all needed apps installed using WinToUSB, what I couldn't do with the MS internal WondowsToGo Workspace Creation! That saves me a lot of time and trouble too! On the end of a day, it's an question of experiences what's working and what didn't! For me, after done a lot experiences with a lot different software, HDClone is the only one which never failed, not once!
In the old days with a standard LPT laplink and nowadays with nothing due to non-necessity of such tools I am a happy tweaker
As always, it's all about you need to do WHAT and with which apps you're most happy! That's for sure OK for private and/or home use, but in corporate environments. For private and home use you could just simply 'play around' with that stuff while in corporate you couldn't, Data Security has to be on first place!
Damned!! Don't tell us you don't partition your drive, with your C: as the one and only OS storage space... How the hell can you have a single Windows drive image of more than 100GB?? Even with lots of software installed, it hardly reaches that mark...
BTW, AFAIC, I've been using O&O DriveImage's Start/Boot CD for years and it has never failed on me so far... Very reliable piece of software indeed. I highly recommend it, for what it's worth.
can u some one send me torrent file Windows 10 Technical Preview January build (9926) my bb speed 50KB
Why I should? It's just OS and Apps! Data not 2GB, only those which are needed by that apps. Partitioning would give us problems with the 2. Drive Letter!!
im using a samsung 840 evo , with rapid mode on , running samsung magician 4.4. anyone experienced some kind of slowdown?
Can't see why it'd cause issues (I've never had) but, anyway, you're obviously free to do whatever suits you best. No argument here. I still find it weird to do things that way... it's just a waste of space, that's all. My 2 cents.
I'm using a Samsung MZNTD512HAGL (M.2 PCI-E - NGFF 1GB/S) SSD (aka Samsung XP941) and Windows 10 TP Build 9926 is blazingly FAST as a rocket!! I'm not using Magician though... (don't need to) so you might try to uninstall it (it may be the cause of concern).