Make sure you know how to do it & actually do it to prove that it works! Read the Macrium user guide for the how-to.

If your PC boots but is 'sick', use Macrium to restore your working image backup. Never had a reason to install an image backup, and have no experience of it. Do you connect the second drive to USB or directly to the motherboard when you make the clone on it.Īnd to my original question. So every once in a while a total reset and re-install from scratch is needed for those reasons anyway. I mean, PC's grow old and need replacement, and windows systems kind of degrades over time. Is the use of the second drive frequent enough to motivate it. (hope it works when and if I need it, and that I dont screw it up beeing a 'seldom-to-never' task) (used free 7 before and upgraded during BF recently). I do keep image backups using Macrium Reflect 8. 1 is the latest of everything, 2 is the previous version(PT2019.x) and 3 is a clone of drive 1:-) Software for this includes Macrium Reflect(they have a free version), Backupper(free or pay for Backupper Pro) and Acronis True Image(not free but very good). Cloning allows you to always have a backup C: drive that is ready to go into service(handy if an update goes sour, or you get some trojan/virus/malware). You can save images to most any drive(I save mine to a 4TB USB drive). Imaging allows you to restore your C: drive back to a previous state(like before installing 21H2). When the clone process is complete, remove your old C: drive and install the fresh clone.

Clone your C: drive to this second drive. #2-Get another drive that is the same(more or less) as your current C: drive. #1-Use drive imaging software to save an image of your C: drive before installing ANY update(Windows, Pro Tools or anything else).

Here are 2 options(and you should be using at least one of them) I try all updates, but I also always(as in ALWAYS) have a backup plan.

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