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Thanks for the confirmation that Macrium will backup and restore Win11 encrypted drives successfully. Actually, the backups will be done just as a safety measure in case decryption of my friend's drives is unsuccessful for whatever reason. Thanks.

Thanks for the additional clarification.

Duplicate post so deleted this one.

Very informative links. Will refer to them when I turn off Device Encryption on the two drives in my friend's PC. Thanks much!

I see at the following at the bottom of the link you provided: 1) "Note: If device encryption is turned off, it will no longer automatically enable itself in the future. The user must enable it manually in Settings." And Googling: 2) "Windows 11 Device Encryption is an automatically enabled...

Thanks for that important info!

@Mooly, thanks for your responses. 1/ Thanks for the confirmation that MRF does image backups and restores of Bitlocked drives, with no issures. 2/ If anyone knows whether an additional step is required to insure that BitLocker is never turned back on, after it is turned off, the info will be...

A friend bought a HP PC running Windows 11 Home. I discovered that the system C SSD and the data D HDD have BitLocker turned on. QUESTION-1: Does Macrium Reflect Free Version 8 do image backup and restore of BitLocked drives successfully? (We backed up both drives using Macrium Reflect Free...

First, you need a backup HDD (mechanical HDD, not a SSD). Actually two backup HDDs preferred in the "rare" case that one backup HDD should die. Buy bare internal HDDs, that do not come in a USB enclosure. Buy a USB3 docking station. I have a Sabrent dual drive docking station and it has been...

Try this: Shutdown Win11 by pressing (winkey+x) > Hover over Shutdown > in the popup menu, hold the shift key down and then click "Shutdown". This will do a "complete" shutdown and power off. When you power on, it will do a "complete" boot into Win11. It solved my slow to display desktop...

Correct that the size of the profile folder is irrelevant with regard to a successful procedure. You obviously know about the following but posting for potential newbies: However, the size of the profile folder is relevant with regard in selecting media to do the copy on. IOW, for a 25GB...

For backing up a business, it's good to have "up to the second" backups of your data in case the data drive dies. Here's a plan to consider: DRIVES: 1 512GB SSD for system drive. 1 xxTB SSD or HDD for data drive. 1 xxTB HDD for realtime backup of the data drive. 2 xxxxxTB HDDs for image...

To add info that may help: I just copied Tbird's profile from my Win11 PC to a fresh Win10 install on an older PC. Here's the procedure that I did: I copied Tbird's profile folder from the Win11 PC to an external HDD in a docking station. (my Tbird profile is humongous at 25GB) Then I...

I've given up on using Hasleo Backup Suite Free. Here's what happened: A friend's Win11 PC suddenly developed a problem of getting an "Invalid password" when doing a power on boot into Win11. No idea why that happened. We used the same password that she's been using and verified that it was...

Am not familiar with the Terramaster hard drive enclosure but apparently it's meant mainly to have hard drives constantly attached to your PC with the drives running. If so, then that is NOT a backup solution. That's still susceptible to infection along with the internal drives in your PC. A...