Macrium reflect...idiots guide needed

chili

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As above something i have never done before is use software for creating a backup of a drive. i have seen numerous mentions of macrium reflect so i have it all installed.

what do i want to do......I have a new pc with ssd in win7 all running sweet, i want to clone/image this whole drive onto the secondary drive so if my installation of win10 goes **** up i have a backup to literally fall back on.

how do i restore the backup?......if everything does goes go **** up and i need to restore how do i do this? do i need to create or install macrium to a usb stick in order to get to the file on the secondary drive?

many thanks in advance
 
thank you i did do a forum search but i got loads of results back and had not yet found that one.
Am not sure if i explained my needs clearly though :(

i want to make a copy of my original drive.
i want to store this copy/file on another drive
i want to install win10 onto the copied drive
if it fails or i do not wish to proceed with win10 i want to access my copied drive file and reinstall onto the original drive it was copied from.
 
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This is exactly what I'm trying to do. I did it fine on my desktop PC, using Samsung Data Migration (SSDs are all Samsung).

However, on my laptop it's not working. I'm trying to use EaseUS ToDo Backup, and it copies the partition to another drive's partition, but I can't boot from it.

I'm also using EasyBCD to alter the boot menu to be able to boot into the original or the copy, but it still won't boot to the copied partition.

I will try Macrium Reflect, but I thought that only cloned the whole drive rather than just individual partitions, but from the pictures in the link it seems you can clone individual partitions.
 
it does indeed but the pictures are for a clone of 1 drive to another drive and the other drive then been used as the master drive.

i just want to make a backup that i can restore from at a later date
 
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