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this would defeat the purpose of the back-up. A 60gig system will typically back-up to between 20 to 25gig and there is no need to remove any programmes at all.

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You cannot restore using Windows Restore as has been previously stated. Having created your backup image you then boot up with the rescue disk you have made which will allow you to restore the image you have made previously. The drop-down menu in the programme will enable you to do this. You CANNOT use a bootable disk like Bart's or Win PE, you must make a Macrium Rescue Disk before you start using Macrium.

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I will have a go at the Linux rescue disk as this will avoid the large download eating into my 10GB monthly download limit with BT. Any idea how much that might be compressed to. At the moment macrium is showing 65GB to be backed up. I might have to be brutal with my external drives as they don't have much space free, I suspect it depends on the compression macrium uses. I used the data partition to store all my personal stuff and I tried as much as possible to copy that to an external hdd, well 2 in fact to try belt and braces approach, but not everything had been copied over as I had always assumed any restore would only over write the active Windows partition. How can you restore an image if, like in my case, you can't start Windows, or is this where the rescue disk comes into play? I assume that if you use the rescue CD this runs in memory so that the image can be restored? In the past I have used Norton Ghost and thought the image file it created was bootable and I used the image disk to restore but perhaps I am wrong (I am a bit older now!!!) That keeps image files small and doesn't imperil your data files if you need to do a restore. You need either to backup your own stuff regularly to some other location and/or move your own stuff off of the C drive, which is my preferred solution. I recommend trying the Linux version first.ДЄs you have already discovered, restoring images erases everything on the C drive including all your own stuff.

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In Macrium's case I believe you can use either the Linux version (easiest by far) or, if that doesn't work for you, you can create a Win PE disk which requires a huge download and install of the WAIK. The rescue CD is bootable and contains a cut down version of the imaging program. You restore your image file either from Windows (requires reboot) or by booting to the rescue CD. The image file is not bootable, nor does it need to be. If you use DVDs the image file will require several disks so external hdd is best. You create the image file either from Windows or by booting to the rescue CD, and store the image file preferably on another hard disk or on DVDs. That isn't how imaging programs such as Macrium work.

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Not sure if this would make any image bootable from CD/DVD (my preferred backup option) so would appreciate chapter and verse on how to make my image disc(s) bootable if I can't access my system. I have read that it's possible to use the Bart PE system but this doesn't come up as an option but to does mention creating a Macrium rescue disk using Windows PE which is a rather large 1.67Gb download. I have been looking through the Help file but I am confused as to how to make the image disk(s) I create bootable.

I have installed Macrium Reflect Free so that I can make a backup image of my working system. The restore worked OK but I lost everything as I hadn't appreciated it would wipe the data partition as well as Windows i.e whole drive. Having just suffered the shock of my Toshiba laptop unexpectedly suffering a registry fault (I am using Vista Home Premium) that required a clean install of Vista from the rescue disks I created originally, and having spent the last week restoring everything I have vowed not to be caught out again.