How to use Macrium Reflect to create an image of your PC hard drive

How do I create an image of my PC's hard drive?

Creating backups of your data is a great idea for pretty much everyone. It makes life way easier in the event of a drive failure, and thanks to intuitive software, the whole ordeal is quite painless.

One way to back up your drive is to create an image, which is basically a compressed snapshot of your entire drive, OS and all. Images can be stored on external drives in the event of a failure and can be used to completely restore a PC when things go wrong. For more information about imaging, check out our comparison between drive imaging and drive cloning:

Hard drive imaging vs. cloning: What's the difference? .

Before you begin, you should prepare a place to save your drive images, because images can't be saved on the same drive you're imaging. You can use a secondary internal drive, a network location, or an external drive connected via USB.

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Imaging software options

We've been using Macrium Reflect for a while and so far haven't found a reason to switch, but there are also plenty of other imaging options out there, including one built right into Windows 10.

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