If you’re constantly testing software, trying out new Windows settings or tweaks or even purposely infecting your own machine with malware, it’s essential to have a complete copy of your Windows partition to hand so you can quickly restore it to its exact state to before you started messing around. Even if you don’t use your computer very often or for those things, a full backup could save you time and money, and all your applications again would be a long, laborious and possibly expensive process. Norton Ghost used to be the go to piece of drive imaging software if you wanted to create full backups of your entire Windows system. Backup Images have an advantage over because they make a complete copy of everything in the Windows partition. Although it was good, Norton Ghost wasn’t free and has long since been discontinued.

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Thankfully things are different now and even of your system, although it can be slightly inflexible. Here we’ll show you 3 free applications that can make full backups of your entire Windows install and how to create an image of your system with each one. Macrium Reflect Free The free version of Macrium Reflect has become one of the most reliable and respected pieces of imaging software around. There are paid versions which offer more functions such as incremental backups, email notifications, scripting and password encryption, but the free version creates full backup images with ease, works fast and could be all you need.

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Creating a Macrium Reflect Backup When you download Macrium Reflect Free from the official source,, it downloads an executable where you choose which distro you want and it downloads the latest version to the specified folder. Make sure to click Options and select a 32-bit or 64-bit version to match the architecture for the computer you are going to install it on. 1., install and launch. From the Backup Tasks on the left, select “ Create an image of the partition(s) required to backup and restore Windows.” This will auto select all the partitions that Windows needs to run, including the hidden system reserved partition created on some Windows systems. If for instance the boot files for this install are on another Windows partition which is part of a multiboot system, you can choose to disable it from being backed up here.

Norton Ghost SRD boot from USB (flat file). Download the ISO from here; Extract the contents to a new folder on your hard disk (e.g. Using SlySoft Virtual. How to Make a Norton Ghost Bootable USB. By: Jane Buchanan. Norton Ghost will now burn the recovery disk onto the CD. Copying the Image to the USB Drive Step. Launch Windows Explorer. Click on your CD burner's drive in the left-hand pane and select all of its contents in the right-hand pane. Press 'CTRL-C' on your keyboard.

Equipment year by serial number. Browse to the folder or network location, or select the CD/DVD/BDR drive to save the backup files to and click Next. A summary screen will show where you can also change a things like compression level via the Advanced Options button, but the default settings are usually good enough. Click Finish.

The final window gives the option to run the backup now and also to save the backup task as an XML file so you can run this task in future with a simple double click. Just click OK to do both. When the imaging completes, you should have a file with random letters and numbers with the extension.mrimg at your chosen target location. Create a Macrium Reflect Rescue Media The Macrium program will nag you every time you run it until you choose to create a rescue media, this is with good reason because you cannot recover your system image without the rescue disc. If you previously disabled the rescue media reminder, go to “Other Tasks” > “ Create Rescue Media“. You have the option of creating either a Windows based rescue disc or a Linux based one. The Windows media is more flexible but requires an extra 100MB+ of files to download.