A window will be displayed, with options to ‘Run this backup now or ‘Save as a Backup Definition File’. You can check the options that you have specified before the clone starts. If a schedule is created, the clone will be performed automatically without further user interaction when the scheduled time is reached. On this page, you can create a schedule for the clone. After you resized the partition size, select ‘Next’. Selecting ‘Shrink or extend to fill the target disk’ will resize the partitions on the destination to make use of all the available space on the disk. Selecting ‘Exact partition offset and length’ will copy the selected partitions from the source disk to the destination with the exact same partition offset and length. The partitions can be dragged to the destination in any order.

Individual partitions can be dragged from the source disk to the destination. Individual partitions can be selected and deleted from the destination disk, or you can select ‘Erase Disk’ to delete all the partitions from the destination disk. Select ‘Select a disk to clone to…’ to select a destination for the clone.

Select the disk then select ‘Clone this disk…’ which is shown under the selected disk. This will show a graphical representation of the disks that are attached to the system locally. Select the ‘Create Backups’ tab, then select ‘Local Disks’. This is important when upgrading to a bigger disk since it is typically faster than imaging the source drive and restoring it to the destination drive.

It is possible to clone a full disk or individual partitions on a drive using Macrium Reflect. Macrium Reflect may backup whole partitions or individual files and folders to a single compressed, mountable archive file, which can then be used to restore exact images of the partitions on the same hard drive for disaster recovery or a new hard disc for data transfer. It may use Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service to build disc images and file backup archives to assure point-in-time data accuracy. Macrium Reflect is a backup application for Microsoft Windows that was released in 2006.

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