A full Macrium image is a file. A big file. You can treat it pretty much like any other file.....copy it, move it, delete it, etc.
You can include whatever partitions you want in the image file. When you first create it, you cannot save it on a partition that is itself contained in the image. That is...if you choose to include the C partition in the image file, you cannot save that image file on C.
Other than that, you can save it wherever it will fit. The image file will be somewhere around 50 to 70 percent of the size of the occupied space on the included partitions. So, if you image C only and C has 200 GB occupied the image file will likely be 100 to 150 GB in size. That's using the default "medium" compression setting. There is a high compression setting, but in my experience it does not shrink the image file by much.
Macrium can make incremental images rather than full images. That is optional. I've never bothered with them.
Macrium will backup personal data files as well as system files, but it's not the ideal tool for that. In my opinion.
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows 11 Pro
- Computer type
- PC/Desktop
- Manufacturer/Model
- Fishmill Special
- CPU
- Intel 265K
- Motherboard
- MSI Pro Z890-A
- Memory
- G Skill DDR5 2 x 16 kit 6000/36
- Graphics Card(s)
- none
- Sound Card
- none
- Monitor(s) Displays
- Dell 2316H
- Screen Resolution
- 1600 x 900
- Hard Drives
- WD SN770 NVME 500 GB boot; Intel 660p NVME 2 TB and WD Green 3 TB storage
- PSU
- Be Quiet 13M 750 ATX 3.1
- Case
- Lancool PC-K65
- Cooling
- Noctua U12S
- Keyboard
- Logitech K120 Wired
- Mouse
- Dell MS-116
- Browser
- Chrome
- Antivirus
- Microsoft Defender and Malwarebytes
