Solved Restore Comparisons using Macrium Easeus, Aoemei & Hasleo

This thread has lost its way. I set it up as a comparison of several key backup tools showing they are not consistent in which hidden partitions get restored.

Most are also inflexible in partition restore i.e. they allow to restore all partitions or just one partition at a time but only Macrium Reflect allows you to restore say 4 out of 5.

Why would you want to do this?

Suppose you had the main partitions and a data partition and something has gone wonky. You might want to restore the 4 usual OS partitions but leave the data partition unchanged.

Try doing that on each Tool.

With all but Reflect you have to restore each partition one at a time. Only Reflect allows you to select 4 out of the 5 partitions.

I do not really understand why all the tools differentiate a partition backup and a disk backup as different backup images. This is all to make it "easier" for beginners I suppose.

Macrium Reflect does not care - select what you want to backup, and what you want to restore. It requires a little extra learning perhaps but is far more flexible.

This thread is not about doing backups, reliability etc. It is about understanding the functional differences of various tools.

So please only reply if you comment is related to the FIRST post.