Macrium Reflect Free for Windows

What happens to your Windows setup if the drive dies tomorrow? Macrium Reflect Free creates full system images and drive clones and can restore them when the original system no longer starts.

Reflect saves disk images for recovery

Reflect can image an entire disk or selected partitions, preserving the Windows installation, applications, and files together. Save the resulting image on a separate storage drive so it remains available if the source disk becomes unusable.

For a disk replacement, the clone workflow copies a drive to another disk. An image backup serves a different workflow: restore its contents later, including to the original disk after a failure.

Rescue media starts recovery when Windows will not boot

Create rescue media before an emergency and keep it available. If Windows cannot start, boot the computer from that media to open Reflect’s recovery environment and restore a saved image.

Restoring an image can return a disk or selected partitions to the state captured in the backup.

Mounted images expose individual files

A saved image does not have to be restored as a whole to retrieve a document. Mounting an image makes its contents accessible in Windows Explorer, where individual files can be browsed and copied out.

System requirements: Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 10, Windows 11 · At least 512 MB RAM (1 GB minimum recommended)

What does Macrium Reflect Free back up?

It creates disk images of a whole drive or selected partitions, including Windows, installed applications, and files.

Can Reflect restore a PC that will not start Windows?

Yes. Boot from rescue media to enter Reflect’s recovery environment, then restore a saved image.

Can files be recovered without restoring the entire image?

Yes. Mount the image to browse its contents in Windows Explorer and copy out individual files.