Hey everyone, Daniel here from TwinBytes with another quick tutorial for you.
This time I'm going to show you how to restore your backup from a Macrium Reflect image backup.
I showed you in a previous video how to create the backup and in this video i'm going to show
you how to actually restore the files. If you do happen to find my videos helpful
please do give it a thumbs up, subscribe if you haven't already, and ring the bell to be
notified every time we come out with a new video. So there's two ways of doing this you could have
the recovery media and the actual files on the usb but in my case here i got the data
on the usb and I got a CD that I created for a bootable cd to boot from and access that image.
Once you got the cd and the usb connected into the computer you can do control alt delete
to restart the computer or just power it off and back on again.
You may be prompted to boot from a cd. So you may have to hit enter otherwise if it's
going to boot from the cd automatically or the usb if it's bootable it'll launch this
automatically. Once you're into this screen you want to go up to the top and browse for an image.
and then look for your drive where the data is stored.
If you highlight that where the data is backed up and hit ok you're going to get an error
message you have to select a file. So you double click on the drive then you'll see your image
where you could have multiple images stored. so select the image you want to restore and hit ok.
Then you'll see the file structure how it's going to be recovered
you'll have the main c drive but you'll also have a recovery partition, system partition,
and other partitions depending on how that drive was set up.
Next you want to click on restore image and in this case the computer had two physical disks.
So I want to choose which disk it is that I'm going to be
restoring even though it showed me the file partition at the top.
Next you need to choose your destination where you're going to recover the files to
you can choose select a different destination if one is showing there and it's not correct and then
you can choose it from here. Also if one exists and it has partitions with information possibly
on it you can choose to delete the existing partitions from there as well before hitting next.
In my case here I had bitlocker installed, so it's reminding me that it's going to be removed
during the recovery process so if i want to install bitlocker again i'll have to enable that
afterwards. Next it gives you a summary of what it's going to be recovering,
where it's going to, and you can hit finish; and now it begins the very long process of
recovering the image and once this is all done we'll be finished and we should have a complete
bootable system as it was as of the date of when that image was last created.
Now at this point all you can do is wait. I've sped up this process in the video
and cut out a bunch of it so at this point while you're waiting might as well go and grab a meal
turn on some Netflix or maybe even binge watch some of my other videos.
So I'm going to cut ahead here until we get to the next good part
when it finally finishes it'll tell you the restore is complete
you can hit ok and then close out of this other window and then x out of this main program
it's going to then want to reboot the computer but if you've got the cd and the usb drive in there it
might try and boot from that again automatically. So you you'll want to quickly remove the
usb and cd drive and if you don't catch it in time that's fine just remove it as soon as you
can and then reboot the computer again the computer will then boot into windows loading
device drivers and finally into the windows operating system and ready for you to log in.
If you're restoring the recovery media to the exact same physical hardware that you
had it on before everything should be perfect. If you're restoring it to different hardware
then it can still work but drivers may be different and you may have to go in and reinstall
the correct drivers for that computer. That's it for this quick tutorial,
I hope you guys did find it helpful. If you did give it a thumbs up,
subscribe if you haven't already and we'll see you in the next video. Thanks so much. Bye for now.