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Macrium backup/restore of non-partition bits of a disk.

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  This is probably a 'dumb' question, but seeing on micky's troubles of
late, I'd rather be safe than sorry.

  Does Macrium Reflect (Free) backup and restore the non-partition bits
of a disk, when you make partition-based backup of a disk?

  N.B. I have of course studied the Macrium documentation, but did not
see a clear answer to this question, hence this post.

  With the non-partition bits, I mean the GPT, the MBR (if any) and any
other parts which are not part of the partitions on the disk.

  I make partition-based backup with Macrium. One Backup Definition File
backs up all partitions except C (done only once). And another Backup
Definition File backs up the C partition (Full and Differential backups).

  N.B. Macrium has a 'Image this disk' - "disk", not "partition(s)" -
function, but as far as I can tell, that is just a partition-based
backup where all the partitions on the disk are selected/ticked, but can
be unselected/unticked. So I don't think there's a functional difference
between the 'Image this disk' function and my two partition-based Backup
Definition Files.

  Are these backups sufficient to restore (by means of the Rescue Media)
the disk, i.e. the partitions *and* the non-partition bits, in case of a
(unfixable) boot failure, disk-replacement, etc.?

  In other words, does the 'all partitions except C' image file, contain
not only the contents of these partitions, but also the GPT, etc.?

  My partitions are:

1 - WINRE    (None) NTFS        Primary, 276.3  MB of 650.0  MB
2 - NO NAME  (None) FAT32 (LBA) Primary, 104.5  MB of 260.0  MB
3 -          (None) Unformatted Primary, 128.0  MB of 128.0  MB
4 - Windows  (C:)   NTFS        Primary, 224.23 GB of 911.06 GB
4 - RECOVERY (D:)   NTFS        Primary,  17.28 GB of 19.43  GB

  N.B. The system is Windows 8.1.

  Thanks in advance for your response.

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Macrium backup/restore of non-partition bits of a disk. Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2022-01-06 15:46 +0000
  Re: Macrium backup/restore of non-partition bits of a disk. Ed Cryer <ed@somewhere.in.the.uk> - 2022-01-06 19:14 +0000
    Re: Macrium backup/restore of non-partition bits of a disk. Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2022-01-07 10:31 +0000
  Re: Macrium backup/restore of non-partition bits of a disk. Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2022-01-06 14:47 -0500
    Re: Macrium backup/restore of non-partition bits of a disk. Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2022-01-07 10:48 +0000
      Re: Macrium backup/restore of non-partition bits of a disk. Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2022-01-07 08:38 -0500
        Re: Macrium backup/restore of non-partition bits of a disk. Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2022-01-07 14:24 +0000
        Re: Macrium backup/restore of non-partition bits of a disk. Stan Brown <the_stan_brown@fastmail.fm> - 2022-01-07 10:36 -0800
  Re: Macrium backup/restore of non-partition bits of a disk. Stan Brown <the_stan_brown@fastmail.fm> - 2022-01-06 11:55 -0800

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