Alternative to Macrium Reflect

I was using Macrium, but always found it a pain when cloning from a smaller drive to larger. Which is what I do a lot at work.
Due to the empty space on a larger drive not being next to the Windows partition it usually doesn't allow you to add that space to the Windows partition.
And with it being customers (Which are usually numb, can't handle a extra partition showing as a extra drive in explorer)

I've now moved to Disk Genius. It doesn't give a damn where the partitions are and allows you to move any extra empty space to wherever you want.
Find Disk Genius a lot quicker, and has a lot more tools as well.
 
Digit said:
I've now moved to Disk Genius. It doesn't give a damn where the partitions are and allows you to move any extra empty space to wherever you want.
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$70 for the ‘standard’ edition but so probably has some features missing. Macrium does it all for free!

It will resize the partition to fit the destination drive if needed.

Bit of checking out how it’s done just and then $70 better off :D Jobs a goodin!
 
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Started using AOEMI Backupper at work after Macrium changed their free model and has been a perfect alternative (even bought the unlimited desktop license, have to pay a lot more for a license that supports Windows Server OS however).
 
Philtor said:
$70 for the ‘standard’ edition but so probably has some features missing. Macrium does it all for free!

It will resize the partition to fit the destination drive if needed.

Bit of checking out how it’s done just and then $70 better off :D Jobs a goodin!
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I didn't pay a penny for the full version. Jobs a good'un! :p
 
Digit said:
I was using Macrium, but always found it a pain when cloning from a smaller drive to larger. Which is what I do a lot at work.
Due to the empty space on a larger drive not being next to the Windows partition it usually doesn't allow you to add that space to the Windows partition.
And with it being customers (Which are usually numb, can't handle a extra partition showing as a extra drive in explorer)

I've now moved to Disk Genius. It doesn't give a damn where the partitions are and allows you to move any extra empty space to wherever you want.
Find Disk Genius a lot quicker, and has a lot more tools as well.
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Im in this moment cloning the third SSD (2 m.2 nvme and 1 SATA) with Macrium Reflect Free rescue environment. When pressing "copy partitions" it gives the alternatives to make an exact copy sector to sector with the same partition size or "shrink or extend". Using "shrink and extend" Macrium automatically extended the OS-partition without any issues going from 500GB to 2TB.

The only issue I ran into was with the SATA to M2 NVME, had to recreate the boot files with "bcdboot C:\Windows /s C: /f UEFI".
 
vroktylF said:
Im in this moment cloning the third SSD (2 m.2 nvme and 1 SATA) with Macrium Reflect Free rescue environment. When pressing "copy partitions" it gives the alternatives to make an exact copy sector to sector with the same partition size or "shrink or extend". Using "shrink and extend" Macrium automatically extended the OS-partition without any issues going from 500GB to 2TB.

The only issue I ran into was with the SATA to M2 NVME, had to recreate the boot files with "bcdboot C:\Windows /s C: /f UEFI".
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The recovery environment includes
A fix boot issues tool too
 
vroktylF said:
Ah, missed that. I tried it with another SATA -> M2 NVME and it worked out perfectly. Thank you
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Yeah probably should have been clearer
The macrium recovery/rescue environment
Has the tool
Rather than windows recovery environment

If at least one drive boots into windows
And the macrium tool was unsuccessful at adding both
To the boot record
The windows tool i couldn't remember is
Boyans dual boot repair tool
Might be a bit tricky to find but it works great
Has several options
But I just choose the automatic fix option

Once both drives boot
If you want to remove one of them from boot record
Think the Boyans tool can do it
But normally I just do it in msconfig or easybcd
 
Where is Macrium based?

Paramount Software UK Limited trading as Macrium Software, was founded and headquartered in Manchester, United Kingdom, where its software development team is based.
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I didn't reailize Macrium Reflect was UK based!

Anyone paying for the subscription version instead of the free edition?
 
makes sense, they did phone us one time as we had registered, at the time they were trying to make money on the servers. it didnt meet our needs at the time sadley
 
Yeah just stopped the free version
You can still find it around on the web
If you look
Still works fine
Just won't get updates and support
Only time I ever had it not working was because
Microsoft changed something major
To do with volume shadow copies or something


Its now a subscription service
Which some people dont like but others
With more than a single pc
Might work out better for them maybe
 
Mcnumpty2323 said:
Its now a subscription service
Which some people dont like but others
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Not a fan on Subscription services.

I would rather buy the software outright and be done with it.

Paying a subscription just means your leasing the software until you cancel it and you then loose all access.
 
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