A built-in scheduler lets you run backup jobs even when you're not around. Support for Microsoft's Volume Shadow copy Service means it can create a hard drive image while you continue to use your PC, for instance. The program is easy to use and keeps backup hassles to a minimum. You won't have to reinstall Windows, or your applications, or try to recover any lost data: just boot from the program's rescue disc, restore the backup, and your PC will be back working as normal within an hour or two. This will take longer, and you'll probably need a second hard drive to hold the image, but if disaster does strike in the future then you'll appreciate the difference. Use Macrium Reflect - Free Edition, though, and the program will take a complete image of your entire hard drive.

Running a simple file-based backup, for instance, will be quick, but only because you'll probably leave so much behind: emails, contacts, browser favourites, digital photos, music, fonts, Windows and application settings, Office add-ons, browser extensions - the list goes on. But for a Home User, the free edition, is more than enough.Backing up your PC occasionally is a very good idea: there's no better way to protect your valuable files from hardware failure, virus attack and other data disasters. Hopefully, there is one app that offers Cloning for free, though some advanced features are locked. Moreover, cracked versions are never advisable. And by the time, a Home User won’t need them more than once then and now, it is unlikely that would like to pay for it. Though there are many softwares that claim to do that, most of them have many locked features that reder them unusable. If you are unfamiliar with the term, Cloning is the process to migrate our System from one drive to another without losing our files, settings, etc. All our files, settings,etc, would be lost.įortunately, there are ways to clone our drive to a new one. The prefered method, and maybe the safest is Clean Install. But it is a real headache when it comes the time to replace a drive which has our OS in it. Our drives are important in order to store files and Windows necessary processes.

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