With Macrium Reflect Free Edition, you'll be able to easily make an accurate and reliable image of your HDD or individual partitions. Using this image, you can restore the entire disk, partition, or individual files and folders in the event of a partial or complete system loss.

Home Edition is also available.

Backup & Restore Features:

File Backup

● Create a single backup file of one or more folders on your hard disk
● Incremental and Differential backups.
● Include and exclude filter ensures that you only backup relevant files.
● Browse the backup file as a virtual FAT32 hard drive in Windows Explorer.
● Files in use by Windows (such as Outlook .pst files) are backed up even when locked!
● Multiple compression levels.
● Backup files can be saved to local or network drives or optical storage (CD, DVD)
● Optionally exclude system and hidden files.
● Supports Incremental and Differential backups.
● Password protect backups to prevent unauthorized access.
● Restore specific files or the entire backup.
● Restore to any location.

Disk Imaging

● Create a single backup file of a complete hard disk
● Create a single backup file of one or many partitions
● Incremental and differential images
● Restore a partition to a different type. i.e., a logical partition can be restored as a bootable primary partition
● Resize the restored partition. A hard disk upgrade can easily be performed by increasing the partition to fill the new disk.
● Track 0 (The Master Boot Record) is saved with all backups.
● Backup files can be saved to local or network drives or optical storage (CD, DVD).
● Disk image can be created whilst Windows is in use. 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.
● Verify images. Images (Backup files) can be separately verified or automatically verified before restoration.
● System files such as 'pagefile.sys' and 'hiberfil.sys' are not included in the image. This reduces the final backup file size.
● Three compression levels can be selected to optimize file size and speed.
● Password-protect images to prevent unauthorized access.
● AES 256-bit encryption for ultimate security.
● Set image filenames automatically.
● Linux-based rescue CD
● Bart PE rescue CD plug-in
● Windows PE 2.1 rescue CD with Windows boot menu.
● Save your backup definitions as XML files and execute them with a single click from your desktop.
● Includes VBScript integration and a VBScript generator for unparalleled control of the backup process.

Scheduling Features

● Schedule daily, weekly, or monthly.
● Unattended completion.
● Automatic incremental/differential images.
● Automatic disk space management for local/remote hard drives.
● Full logging of all backup operations. HTML log reports are generated and can be viewed using Reflect's built-in browser.

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