Macrium Drive Image and Restore - this saves massive amounts of time

welcome to another tech video so today we're going to be looking at macrium reflect and a specific use case that we've got that um enables us to save a huge amount of time so we've got um we've got a pc over here this is an hp core i5 machine eighth generation cpu and what we've got is we've built one from scratch so fresh copy of windows 10 we've loaded all of the hp drivers all of the windows updates and it's a fresh clean copy and what we want to do is we've got three others exactly the same and we want to load the operating system that's completed on here onto another system [Music] um in fact onto the other three systems and we're going to show you how you can do that today with some software from macrium if you're using in a commercial environment you will need to purchase a license however if you are a home user then the software is available for free and it allows you to create a system image a bit like a backup of your of your environment so you can set this to run as an incremental job and gives you the ability to have a full system backup of your pc that can be restored very easily we're going to show you how you can do a restore as well first thing we want to do is we want to go and get the software so we're going to go to google we're going to search for macrium reflect free back up at home and you want to use if you're in a commercial environment obviously you need to buy the software so we are using it in a commercial environment so we've purchased the workstation edition but as a home user you can use the free edition to create images of your windows os so we're going to select just to show you we're going to select the reflect 8 free so we're going to download and we're going to select i need a personal license and we're going to select continue and then we're going to install the software i'm going to select make sure it says free up there run the installer directly after downloading perfect and then we're going to say download and then we're going to install the software just follow the guides through so as a home user you would select home and we're going to agree to the software saying that yes we are a home user don't want to register it and then install i'm going to say launch now i'm going to close our browser down there we go right so this is a demonstration for home users this is not to be used in a commercial environment you would need to buy the software like we have for our environment so what i'm going to show you today is how you can use their free offering to clone your existing windows computer onto something like a nas drive or in our instance as you can see here we've got a usb drive connected to the pc so there are a couple of ways of doing it and we're just going to show you today the way that you would do it using the software on your running windows system so we are going to select the option here and that option is we're going to back up a local disk and we're going to create an image of it we're not going to clone it we're going to create an image of it and we're going to use that image later so we're going to click on image this disk and then we're going to select for the folder location so it's going to be on our d drive and we are going to create a new folder and we're going to call it macrium backup and say okay and that's going to create a drive image of the operating system and it's going to store it into this drive here there's no other options that you need to set so we're going to select next and we are not creating a template for any of this so we're just going to untick all of these options here because this gives you the ability to create a backup job if you want to have it running nightly for instance to take a drive image of your system and it would update it just like a normal backup does so we're going to select next and then we're going to click on finish we're going to untick this box because we don't want to save it and we want to run this back up now so what this is doing this is taking a sector by sector clone or image it's cloning your drive and putting it into an image that you can then use to restore onto another system and we will show you what we're going to be doing with that a bit later on in the meantime we're just going to let this one run through depends on the speed of your system of course on how long it takes but normally by experience this takes between between 20 minutes and an hour depending on what you're backing it up to and how you're backing it up all i suggest is if you find the software useful do purchase a license for it it is a fantastic piece of software we use it for backing up our system here in the office and that has a nightly backup basically it takes a drive image and updates that and then we use additional backup for data as well okay so that was actually real time and that was extremely fast so let's have a look to see how long that took two minutes 11 seconds to do uh the whole system now we're going to close this down and we are going to just quickly show you the backup on the drive it's on the x external drive itself that was under macrium backup and there's our backup image so we're going to use that on uh and restore this onto another system now so we're going to close this machine down we're going to attach the usb drive to into the other system and then we're going to load the software again on the other system and then do a system restore okay so here we are on our system that we're going to clone our data to so just to make it clear we've got an hp desktop that we've already created our drive image and we've got an exactly the same model of hp desktop that we're going to be restoring to now obviously you'll with the running operating system you're not going to be able to use the software to restore directly over that operating system because obviously the os is going to be running but what you want to do is you want to come in to your macrium software you want to get yourself a usb stick and you want to insert the usb stick into the one of the usb ports in the machine and then what we're going to do is we're going to click on what's called rescue so this is we're going to create a bootable rescue media and the reason we need to do this is we need to boot off that usb stick to load macrium and then we're going to load the image from the drive that we've created it on and that will overwrite the operating system on the current disk obviously you cannot overwrite a running operating system so we're going to click on rescue that's going to build a rescue media so we're going to say it's going to create the software in a windows 10 environment and what we're going to do is we're going to create it on our e drive and we're going to enable it to be multi-boot so mbr and uefi so that means that it will take care of legacy system boot as well let's have a look at the advanced options so we're going to be using 64-bit and i think probably what we'll do is we're going to add bit locker support and automatically unlock bitlocker volumes okay we're going to enable legacy efi screen resolution support we're not going to enable anything else and that's it we're going to say we're going to actually move along to drive devices and drivers that's fine and click on ok and then we're going to select build and yes it is only going to be used for non-commercial use because we're only going to be using it at home or you will be we have a we have a license to be able to do this because we've actually bought software in a work environment so we use a business based version of this that we've paid for we're going to say ok to that that's going to create a bootable usb drive takes a little while and then we have our rescue media created so we click on ok click on close close down the software now what we're going to do is we're going to shut down the machine okay so with the uh with the bootable drive in place you want to power up the machine and then we're going to boot from our drive so we're going to go into boot device options i'm going to go into the usb stick that we just created now while that's booting you can now add your external usb drive that you've got your drive image on okay so here we've got our system so macrium this is so as you can see here we are going to look at existing backups so we're going to browse for an image file we're going to go to our this is our this is our drive here local drive f we're gonna go into there we're gonna go into macrium backup and here is our image that we created earlier so we're gonna double click that to select it and we're now gonna go in and we're gonna use the restore options we're going to click on restore and we're going to select our drive to restore to and this is our drive that we're interested in here this is our external usb drive and this is our bootable drive so we want to overwrite this drive and what we do is we delete all of the partitions first now you do want to double check and make sure that the drive that you are about to overwrite is the correct one so we're going to delete the partitions on that so we've got our drive image up here and we've got our drive in the system that we're going to restore it to we're going to click on next and then we're going to click on finish and it's going to confirm if we want to overwrite or it should do there we go we're going to say yes all target volume data will be overwritten confirm to proceed we're going to continue and that will then go through and restore everything that's on our image onto the drive that's in the system so that's the restore completed so now what we can do is simply click on ok close and then we're going to shut down the system and now we're going to remove the usb drive bootable usb drive and we're going to remove the external usb disk which is now done and then we're going to power up the system and we're going to log in and there we have a fully restored system as you can see here it's the uh macrame reflect that we originally put in now so once you've cloned your system there are a couple of things that you need to do so the first one is you need to change the system hostname because it's going to be on the same network um your computer is going to have the the same name so we want to go in and we want to have a look at that and we want to rename this pc so to do that you go into settings and about and then click on rename this pc and it gives you the current name here so what we're going to do is we're going to call it desktop and we're going to call it something completely different in roughly the same format so like that just make something up but obviously make a note of it because you don't want to inadvertently create a name that's already in use i'm going to click on next and then it's going to want to restart the pc more than likely yeah there we go so we're going to restart the pc again and there we go that's us booted back up into windows and we're going to log in and there we are with our new uh computer name so if you found that video useful give it a double thumbs up don't forget to subscribe to the channel i just wanted to point out that if you are a commercial user you must buy this software like we've done if you are a home user it's readily available to use and we've run through all of the options for you there so yeah just want to say thanks for watching and we'll see you in the next one

Channel: Frimley Computing

Views: 56,164

Keywords: macrium, macrium reflect, disk imaging, ssd imaging, disk cloning, ssd cloning, drive imaging, drive cloning, data backup, data restore, disk restore, drive restore, hard disk protection, macrium reflect 8

Id: iO9gCwQjBSo

Length: 16min 2sec (962 seconds)

Published: Thu Nov 25 2021