Hey there, Im new to backing up, just an average joe looking to you pros for some advice.
I recently updated from windows 10 to 11 after I built a new pc. Before building the new machine I used macrium reflect 8 free edition to create an image of my C:/ drive. I save it to a storage NVME drive i have.
My question for you guys is, can I just straight up copy and paste that Image file that macrium created to alternative backup drives to have backups of my backup? Or will macrium freakout if its not coming from the drive that I initially selected to save the image to?
I tried copy and pasting that image file to an external drive, but when I opened macrium on the new machine and tried to use the "explore image" feature. It was telling me the image file from the external drive (the one i copy and pasted) was invalid. Im wondering if it somehow got corrupted or if it doesnt work. Viewing the image file on the drive I selected intially works fine and I can see all of my original C:/ Drive files and user files etc.
I'm just rying to restore some files that didnt copy over with the windows 11 upgrade. Ie. Personal files, game saves etc. I dont want to leave that image file inside of my machine on my old NVME storage drive. I want to copy and paste it to a coupel of other external backup drives I have.
EDIT: THANKS EVERYONE FOR THE INFO!