Cloning a disk with Macrium Reflect 8

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Using Macrium Reflect, it is possible to clone an entire drive or specific partitions on a drive. This is useful if you are upgrading to a larger drive and can often be faster than imaging the source drive and restoring to the destination drive. Cloning your drive will create a bootable copy of the source drive with the state it was in at the time the clone took place. You can clone to a drive installed in your computer or to a drive that is attached using a USB caddy.

It is important to note that Windows cannot boot using a USB connected drive, this is a restriction that is imposed by Windows. If you use a USB connected drive as a destination for the clone, to boot using the cloned drive, the drive will need to be removed from the USB caddy and connected to the system internally.

First, select the ‘Create Backups’ tab, then select ‘Local Disks’. This will show a graphical representation of the disks that are attached to the system locally. Select the disk that you would like to clone, then select ‘Clone this disk…’ which is shown under the selected disk.




This will open the ‘Clone’ wizard. Select ‘Select a disk to clone to…’ to select a destination for the clone.

Individual partitions can be selected and deleted from the destination disk, or you can select ‘Erase Disk’ to delete all the partitions from the destination disk.

Although cloning is a destructive process, nothing will be deleted from the destination disk until the clone has started. This gives you the freedom to reposition and edit partitions without making the changes permanently.

Individual partitions can be dragged from the source disk to the destination. The partitions can be dragged to the destination in any order.


Alternatively, you can select ‘Copy Partitions’ and then select ‘Exact partition offset and length’ or ‘Shrink or extend to fill the target disk’.

Selecting ‘Exact partition offset and length’ will copy the selected partitions from the source disk to the destination with the exact same partition offset and length. This means that the partitions will be copied to the same location on the destination disk and they will be the same size.


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