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Macrium Reflect Free Rescue Media on external HDD?

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- - December 1, 2020 at 10:15 pm #2316403
    
    cmptrgy
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    I have a friend who’s willing to create system image backups.
    Since I use MRF, he will also.
    I also informed him to create rescue media: I use a USB but he wants to create it on his external HDD for the system image backups. Is that possible?
    
    HP EliteBook 8540w laptop Windows 10 Pro (x64)
    
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  - December 2, 2020 at 1:41 am #2316460
    
    Paul T
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    Of course it is, but the creation process will delete any data on the disk unless you know how to do it manually – same if you want to update the boot image.
    
    USB key is just simpler and most machines have more than one USB port.
    
    cheers, Paul
    
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  - December 2, 2020 at 9:55 am #2316535
    
    PFC
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    put your images on the HDD and the Macrium USB rescue disk will find them for restore
    
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  - December 2, 2020 at 11:59 am #2316547
    
    RetiredGeek
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    If you’re going to place them on the same drive, partition the drive into two drives. One for the rescue media and one for the images. This way you can update the rescue media w\o destroying your images. If you have a system that uses UEFI make sure you initialize the disk as GPT and format the rescue partition as FAT32!
    
    HTH 😎
    
    May the Forces of good computing be with you!
    
    RG
    
    PowerShell & VBA Rule!
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