Creating bootable backup image before cloning

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Brad_25

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I have a external hard drive with 1TB and has about 900Gb left. I was going to use macrium reflect to clone a new hard drive but first create a image of my old hard drive for a backup/restore for later use if the clone goes bad. What my question is After the image created by macrium is saved on my external drive is it automatically bootable to where I could install it to a drive or would I need to create bootable dvds or flashdrive with the macrium software for the install if the clone messes up my old drive

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I don't use macrium or know of its features, but does it provide a way to create a 'Rescue' medium i.e. bootable cd/dvd/usb - for the purposes of restoring an image it has previously created? If yes then do this, then boot into it and see if it can 'see' your image on the external drive.
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Someone Somewhere

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Windows will not boot off of external drives. You'd need to take the drive out of the case and connect it internally.

Note that many external drives (particularly from big manufacturers) modify the data as it passes through the USB-SATA bridge; what you write to the drive may not be what's on the drive. E.g. they encrypt it.

Make sure that you can actually boot off it - it's not a backup until you've tested that you can restore from it.
 
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I don't use macrium or know of its features, but does it provide a way to create a 'Rescue' medium i.e. bootable cd/dvd/usb - for the purposes of restoring an image it has previously created? If yes then do this, then boot into it and see if it can 'see' your image on the external drive.
 
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You can make either one from within Macrium Reflect. It will be bootable so you can restore backup at any time. You can also use it to solve some BOOT problems and even clone disk from it.

 
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With the Win 7 & Win 8 (8.1) OSs a USB external HDD/SSD that's the recipient of the cloned contents of the source disk will be bootable as a USB device. I'm under the impression that most of the major disk-cloning programs possess that capability. I believe, but am not certain, that both the Macrium & Easeus disk-cloning programs possess this capability. The d-c program I routinely use - Casper - certainly possesses this capability. We use it all the time for comprehensive system backup purposes.

Now Win 10 is a different matter. We've run into problems attempting to boot from a Win 10 cloned USBEHD. I understand the Casper program is attempting to overcome this limitation with a new version (current version is Casper 8). We're keeping our fingers crossed.
 
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