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Macrium Reflect
The enthusiast favourite. The free edition is gone; the paid one is still excellent.
- Licence
- Paid
- Price
- Reflect Home around $49.99 per year; multi-year plans discounted
- Platform
- Windows 10 / 11, Windows Server (separate licence)
- Current version
- Reflect X
- Developer
- Paramount Software UK
- Clones the Windows system disk for free
- Yes
- Clone to a smaller drive
- Yes
- Official site
- www.macrium.com
The verdict
For years the answer to "what should I use?" was Macrium Reflect Free. That edition stopped receiving updates on 1 January 2024 and has since gone fully end-of-life, so it should no longer be used. The paid Reflect X remains one of the fastest and most reliable imaging and cloning engines available on Windows.
Who it is for
People who image their PC regularly and want the most dependable Windows recovery story, and who accept a subscription.
Strengths
- Extremely reliable clone and image engine with a long track record
- Rapid Delta Clone only rewrites changed blocks on repeat clones
- Excellent WinPE rescue media with driver injection
- viBoot lets you boot an image as a virtual machine to test it
- Strong scheduling, retention and verification options
Limitations
- No free edition any more — the old Free build is end-of-life and unpatched
- Subscription pricing annoys long-time perpetual-licence users
- Interface is dense and assumes some technical vocabulary
- Windows only
Worth knowing
If you find an old Macrium Reflect Free installer floating around, do not rely on it: it receives no security or OS-compatibility fixes. Hasleo Backup Suite Free and Veeam Agent Free are the usual replacements.
The interface
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that folder.