This review of Macrium Reflect is my experience with the software. Finally, it offers a bootable method that allows you to boot and restore your system drive in no time. It can compress the captured images up to 40%, thereby allowing you to save more snaps/images in your backup device. Macrium Reflect employs the Volume Shadow Copy Service in Windows 11/10 to create a disk image and hence is faster than any of the other free imaging software in its category. HTML log reports are generated and can be viewed using Reflect''s built in browser.After using Macrium Reflect Free for a while, I can sum it up in the three words I used in the title. Full logging of all backup operations.Automatic disk space management for local / remote hard drives.Automatic incremental / differential images.Includes VBScript integration and a VBScript generator for unparalleled control of the backup process.Save your backup definitions as XML files and execute them with a single click from your desktop.AES 256 bit encryption for ultimate security.Password protect images to prevent unauthorized access.Three compression levels can be selected to optimize between file size and speed.System files such as ''pagefile.sys'' and ''hiberfil.sys'' are not included in the image.Images (Backup files) can be separately verified or automatically verified before restore. A special driver ensures that the disk image represents an exact point in time and will not be affected by disk access that may occur during the backup process. Disk image can be created whilst Windows is in use.Backup files can be saved to local or network drives or optical storage (CD, DVD).Track 0 (The Master Boot Record) is saved with all backups.

A hard disk upgrade can easily be performed by increasing the partition to fill the new disk.

a logical partition can be restored as a bootable primary partition

Restore a partition to a different type.

Create a single backup file of one or many partitions.

Create a single backup file of a complete hard disk.

Macrium Reflect Free is a Hard Disk Imaging and File Backup Software

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