Hi again Texas,
Thanks for your prompt response! Both Mike and holdum are right on the money. Mike & I did extensive testing on Macrium & EASEUS.
And yes, ABSOLUTELY it will wipe out everything on your hard drive that was there before! It does a complete format and erase including the Recovery & Diagnostic partitions as well. I disagree with holdup about skipping the last step and cancelling the Actual Resore from your backup file, however. This is not an acceptable option in IT or any business situation eve home office. If you're too afraid to do it, I suggest you purchase a separate new hard drive from eBay or Amazon or newegg, swap out your primary drive you have from that computer and replace it with the new drive. Hook up your external drive or login to your Cloud account and download the backup image file to your external drive and use the Boot Disc or Resce Media disc as Macrium calls theirs, and RESTORE your Image file. Once done, disconnect your external sub drive, and reboot that computer. It should boot right to Windows, login of you have a password or Microsoft account and all your programs and data should be exactly like one the original drive you backed up from!
Once you run this test, you now know it will work! If you like swap your drives back out to your original and be back to where you were at before you ran the Restore test.
Stick that new drive in a drawer, and if your original drive ever craps out on you, you can throw the drawer drive back into the computer, run your Image Restore and be back up and running in an hour or two!!
BBJ
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Thanks for your prompt response! Both Mike and holdum are right on the money. Mike & I did extensive testing on Macrium & EASEUS.
And yes, ABSOLUTELY it will wipe out everything on your hard drive that was there before! It does a complete format and erase including the Recovery & Diagnostic partitions as well. I disagree with holdup about skipping the last step and cancelling the Actual Resore from your backup file, however. This is not an acceptable option in IT or any business situation eve home office. If you're too afraid to do it, I suggest you purchase a separate new hard drive from eBay or Amazon or newegg, swap out your primary drive you have from that computer and replace it with the new drive. Hook up your external drive or login to your Cloud account and download the backup image file to your external drive and use the Boot Disc or Resce Media disc as Macrium calls theirs, and RESTORE your Image file. Once done, disconnect your external sub drive, and reboot that computer. It should boot right to Windows, login of you have a password or Microsoft account and all your programs and data should be exactly like one the original drive you backed up from!
Once you run this test, you now know it will work! If you like swap your drives back out to your original and be back to where you were at before you ran the Restore test.
Stick that new drive in a drawer, and if your original drive ever craps out on you, you can throw the drawer drive back into the computer, run your Image Restore and be back up and running in an hour or two!!
BBJ
Sent from my VS986 using Windows Forums mobile app
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