Macrium Reflect Question / Help Please

[Mark Kaine]

Why does it always overwrite the whole "target disc" when I clone my OS drive? 

 

I don't really get it, isn't that exactly the point that you have several backups of the data you want to copy / backup / clone? 

 

And yes,  there's enough space on the target disc,  it doesn't matter it'll always say "all data on target disc will be overwritten".

 

 

Just wondering if I'm missing something like a setting?

It really doesn't make sense to me - and is a massive waste of storage space because I never can use the "target disc" for other stuff since apparently,  in case I want to make another clone that would be overwritten...  

[Kilrah]

Becasue you're using clone and not image?

[Mark Kaine]

6 minutes ago, Kilrah said:

Becasue you're using clone and not image?

Yeah, the weird part is I did that several times before and it always created a "MRIMG" file...  but now it just seems to copy my OS drive 1:1... 

 

So what do I use to make a 1:1 "backup" of my OS drive then? 

 

There doesn't even seem to be an option for that,  I just see "create an image of the partitions required to backup and restore windows"

 

I don't want that,  I want it to backup the whole drive. 

 

It's really confusing because as said I already did this several times,  always used "clone this drive" and the result always was a "MRIMG" file... Well until yesterday... Even weirder I did it a second time afterwards and *then* it created a "MRIMG" file. 

 

So yeah I'm confused lol,  but yeah,  I need a backup of the "whole" drive,  including the windows installation of course... 

[Kilrah]

"Clone this disk" just makes the 2nd drive an identical copy of the fist, always has. Obviously overwrites anything already on.

"Image this disk" makes a .mrimg image of the whole disk as a file and you can put multiple on one disk.

[Mark Kaine]

48 minutes ago, Kilrah said:

"Clone this disk" just makes the 2nd drive an identical copy of the fist, always has. Obviously overwrites anything already on.

"Image this disk" makes a .mrimg image of the hwole disk as a file and you can put multiple on one disk.

Thanks,  that worked.  I really have no idea why this is so confusing, especially visually...