Macrium Reflect FREE Edition
Great news ! There is a Macrium Reflect FREE Edition for now .
( for personal and non-commercial use - but hey ! ” That’s us ! ” )
As said in our Paragon Hardisk Manager 8,5 free promo article Macrium Reflect is one of the top players in this domain . And it often gets better reviews than competitors like Norton Ghost, O&O Disk Image, Acronis True Image, Drive Clone, Part Image, Restore IT, Drive Image XML .
If we are not wrong Macrium Software only offered 30 days trials - as free versions - untill now . But starting with Jan 10 2009 everybody can benefit from the main features of this award winning disk imaging solution , for free .
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What can you do with it ?
- Protect your personal documents, photos, music and e-mails.
- Safely upgrade your hard disk ( after doing a backup )
- Safely try new operating systems ( after doing a backup )
- Backup to local, network and USB drives as well as burning to all DVD formats
Features :
” #The only free XP and Vista compatible disk imaging software with BartPE and Linux based recovery options.
# Create a disk image whilst running Windows using Microsoft Volume Shadow copy Service .
# Image to Network, USB, FireWire drives and DVD.
# Built in scheduler.
# 32 bit and native 64 bit versions.
# Industry leading compression levels and speed.
# Linux based Rescue CD with Network access and full GUI. Only 6.5MB in size!
# Built in CD/DVD packet writing engine. Supports packet writing to DVD DL media with Windows Vista.
# HTML log files. “
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It is true that the full version - worth $ 39,99 - has important extra features like File and Folder backup , Differential disk images and backups , Incremental disk images and backups , VBScript Generator , Password Protection , AES Encrypion , Windows PE 2.0 Rescue CD with RAID support , Windows boot menu , etc … ( see image )
… But that does’t make the Free Edition worthless because it allows the most important operations as you can see from the features from above .
We strongly recommend this powerfull tool !
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Macrium Reflect FREE Edition is well worth it if you are looking for a backup / imaging solution and I’ve been using it for a few weeks. If you use Vista x64 there are little choices and almost none that are free. We use Ghost at work but not while the system is operating (ie., boot from CD to copy a drive to Server). Drive Image xml is another great product but it limited the split size of the my files to 700 meg (if you wanted to put them on CD’s) and is a 32-bit app (great product but Reflect is better IMHO). I bought Acronis True Image v11 (home ed for my WinXP system) and although it backed my drive fine (albeit, slowly), I very rarely could get it to do a restore… kept erroring out… total waste of money if you can’t do a restore and I wouldn’t consider it for a X64 system or ever again for purchase (and yes I had used the “patch file” they recommended to fix the problem — which didn’t). Reflect was by far the easiest to use, backed up to NAS (Netgear DUO) over my home network just fine, allowed me to easily control the size of the split file, mounted the image just fine and allowed me to copy a file out of it….. Also, although I haven’t tried this yet, but you can use BartPE to make a bootable restore disk with the Reflect Program on it (Drive Image xml can do this too). I absolutely highly recommend Macrium Reflect free edition and am considering the purchase of the of the paid version.
I’ve been using this software for for more than a year Macrium Reflect v4.2.same as the one above.And found it to work along the same lines as True image.
I’ve used it to do a monthly back on 3 computers at home .And have restored twice with no problems .
1 point
I have found that Macrium Reflect Free is MUCH faster at backing up than Paragon Drive Backup 9.0 SE. With the exact same drive and standard compression (The image sizes produced by both programs were almost identical), here are the backup times I experienced:
Macrium Reflect Free — 25 minutes
Paragon Drive Backup 9.0 Personal SE - 48 minutes
I will be using Macrium Reflect Free!!
P.S. Another good free Imager is DriveImage XML. But Macrium Reflect Free has more features,
3 points
Thank you for the feedback !
I am testing Macrium for two weeks on my new Lenovo (wiped out Seagate HD) and OEM XP Pro, but I can’t restore the image. Creating BartPE bootable was a bit confusing but it worked; creating the image was ok. Now when I try to boot with BartPE, it doesn’t boot, getting an error 070030 bla bla bla saying that or I have I virus or some drivers are the issue. I checked the zeroed HD with Seatools and it’s ok. I need to find another free imaging software that would work, because clearly Macrium free version is useless. Any suggestions of other imading freeware that doesn’t use BartPE?
2 points
Hi and welcome on 4 Free!
Why don’t you try the Dual boot Backup Capsule ( Linux or PTS DOS ) from the acclaimed Paragon Hard Disk Manager 9.5
See here http://for-free-on-internet.com/2009/06/paragon-hard-disk-manager-95-special-edition-4-free/
Good luck !
I have had this prog on my computer but never really used it - until a couple of weeks ago when something went crazy and nothing would work. Fortunately I had created a back up using Macrium Reflect Free and produced the bart recovery disk with the program so was able to recreate my system to what it was albeit a few months ago.
I now use this to backup regularly and it seems really quick compared to other similar progs. Would very highly recommend this to everyone from personal experience.
2 points
Thank you for the feedback !
I’ve reviewed and tested3 freebie backup solutions –Paragon Backup & Recovery, Macrium Reflect and Todo Backup. And, my choice came to Paragon because it has the widest range of backup & recovery options (differential backup; Automatic data exclusion; Built-in ability to create bootable USB Flash drive ; three recovery environments restore, GPT Volumes Support and Basic Partitioning) comparing to others and it simply does it says.
I found in Macrium one major bug– it cannot restore an image from a larger hard disk to a smaller one, even if backed up data is less than that of your destination disk’s capacity. As a pro I found good level of compression.
Regarding Todo backup –I couldn’t install it on Vista SP2.
So, the best choice is Paragon Backup & Recovery Free Edition (http://www.paragon-software.com/home/db-express/).
6 points
Hi Nick !
We appreciate your contribution.
Thank you!