Now that upgrades are not delivered to Home users automatically until end of life cycle, you do have the choice of when to upgrade. Very useful to have a current image before upgrading in particular. You can include your data partition in the same job, or image or back that up separately- depends on how fast things change for example. You need to image all partitions comprising Windows (4 for UEFI typically). If you really want to be secure, run scheduled imaging to one disk, attached, and periodic images to one you keep securely and remotely. Your backup disk is best kept off-line- virus free and free from any power problems, and physically safe and remote. Incremental imaging and more are only available in licensed MR.Ĭreate a backup job you can keep using as prompted by MR, and set that to manage the number of images kept on your backup disk.Īssign a fixed drive letter late in the alphabet using disk management so it's the same every time you plug it in.

HDDs are cheaper.Īllow for a base (initial) image + a set of differential (smaller, faster) images. Shorter if little change, longer if more. Routine imaging, of say, 150Gb from SSD over USB3 might take 9 minutes, creating a differential image.

Your backup disk doesn't need to be a SSD. Red = warning- almost full + length of bar. Your question about the red bar has been asked several times- as I've said before, it's the same as you might see in file explorer: There are threads here discussing its use, and you can find answers to the sort of questions you are asking if you search tenforums. There is a tutorial here- somewhat older, quite basic, on using MR. This can help you recover if your disk fails (new disk), your PC is stolen (new PC and restore to that), and give you a second chance in a number of scenarios, plus a full backup. Hi, it's good that you have decided to adopt disk imaging.

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