# Page 4 | Macrium Reflect Workstation Reviews 2026. Verified Reviews, Pros & Cons | Capterra > Page 4 - Is Macrium Reflect Workstation the right Disk Imaging solution for you? Explore 123 verified user reviews from people in industries like yours to make a confident choice. Source: https://www.capterra.com/p/160544/Macrium-Reflect/reviews --- Macrium Reflect Workstation 4.8 (123) [View alternatives](https://www.capterra.com/p/160544/Macrium-Reflect/alternatives/) Provider data verified by our Software Research team, and reviews moderated by our Reviews Verification team. [Learn more](https://www.capterra.com/our-story/) * * * Last updated March 13th, 2026 # Page 4 - Reviews of Macrium Reflect Workstation ## Showing most helpful reviews Showing 76-100 of 123 Reviews Sort by: Most Helpful Rating Company Size Reviewer's Role Length of Use Frequency of Use Christopher W. IT Manager Computer Networking Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Macrium Review" June 12, 2019 5.0 Great software. Meets a big need in day to day break fix business Pros Its FREE. Great imaging software. Can copy disk to disk or create an image to be restored or mounted later. Cons Have yet to run into any issues with macrium and it is free so cannot complain Alternatives considered [Symantec Ghost Solution Suite](https://www.capterra.com/p/156416/Symantec-Ghost-Solution-Suite/) Reason for choosing Macrium Reflect Workstation Its FREE!!! Switched from [Acronis Cyber Protect](https://www.capterra.com/p/237140/Acronis-Cyber-Protect/) Price Review Source MH Michael H. IT Technician Computer Networking Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "One of the best backup softwares that I have ever used" April 11, 2018 5.0 Easy configuration, easy and quick Restore options. I am able to restore either from bare metal or mount the backup and restore individual files. Pros What I like best about Macrium is the feeling of security that it gives. It's extremely easy to install and configure and once it's done, your backups can run on a schedule or manually. After it's backed up, you can go from bare metal to back to within working order in a matter of a couple hours rather than spending days restoring. It also has ransomware protection built in, so if you ever need to restore due to ransomware, your backups will be safe. Cons Their Exchange Server restore isn't the best. It restores mailboxes one item at a time and doesn't have the option to do it all in one. If the Exchange restore fails (as has happened to me on occasion), you have too start from scratch and there's no easy way of picking up where it left off. Their phone support is also only used to create a ticket. There doesn't seem to be any real-time phone support. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Business Owner Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Very reliable" July 9, 2021 5.0 Cloning is pretty fast in my opinion but that always depends on the quantity of data and the health of the drive that you're cloning from. I have tried other software but have always come back to MR. Pros I've been using MR for years now and I've never had any issues with it. For me personally the free version of the software suits my needs. I only use it for cloning of HDD and SSD's. Cons The user interface is a little lacking in my opinion compared with say EaseUs Partition Master which is much easier to navigate. It's just something you have to become familiar with through use. Review Source BR Bill R. Developer Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Trust but verify...." April 1, 2024 5.0 Schedule something to verify it's still doing its job. Pros Restore policy on unlicensed installation. Works well. Cons It doesn't give notice when it stops doing backups because Windows says it's now on a different machine. Switched from [R-Drive Image](https://www.capterra.com/p/170377/R-Drive-Image/) R-Drive had a similar license issue but was unhelpful resolving it. Review Source Ben S. IT Consultant Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Easy Backups, Clones and Restores!" November 19, 2018 5.0 Multi Use Case, Affordable (Free version available too!), and reliable. Cannot recommend enough. Pros Macrium allows us to clone and restore drives very easily. Our use case was in backing up user and employee data or configurations when a drive was failing or a reinstall was necessary. It performs fast, and is flexible in how you intend to backup and clone. Every use case we have stumbled across has been able to be solved with Macrium. When you consider the price, Macrium shines even more. So affordable and feature rich compared to other options. Cons Like any software, there is a learning curve, but the internet has plenty of tutorials and such on how to use it. Spend a few minutes learning about it and you'll be a master in no time! Review Source SF Scott F. Director of Technical Operations Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Macrium Reflect keeps my personal and business systems safe and secure 24/7/365" May 8, 2018 5.0 Macrium Reflect keeps all my personal systems at home safe and secure with nightly critical file backups plus weekly and monthly incremental system image backups. I do the same with my business systems, plus I add-in server and SQL server backups using the server editions to keep my business data safe too. The pricing is very affordable, even for the server versions, especially given the amount of features they have and how easy and reliable their program is. Pros Affordable, very easy to use, constantly updated, support for every file system and operating system available, support for all backup and image techniques from simple file/folder to image, incremental, differential, to SQL and more. I guess my favorite part is that you can go from quick setup to creating an emergency boot disc/flash drive and running a full backup on the system in less than 10 minutes. Cons It needs a face lift I guess, and they could stand to offer some cloud options for storing portions or entire images in the cloud. Review Source TH Thomas H. Professor Banking Used the software for: 2+ years ### "This is NOT really a consumer, home user product" April 25, 2021 5.0 Never once successfully restored a bootable Windows 10 disk image, and I'm tired of spending hours and hours and hours trying to figure out why. But it's obvious from the support forums that I simply don't know NEARLY enough (and I've been using computers of every kind since the 1970s) to even ask a useful question. Pros Apparently, IT professionals and computer geeks get a LOT of use out of this app. But as a home PC user, I have found that if you aren't a Windows EXPERT, it's easier to just reinstall Windows and reinstall your software, and just back up your files on an external drive of some kind. I have never actually been able to successfully restore a bootable backup of my PC. The days and days of researching the technical details I don't know anything about just to ask a support question simply aren't worth it. Cons It is NOT "user" friendly. The tech support is really for IT pros. If you're not an EXPERT (and I know quite a bit) on Windows, BIOS, etc, then this is probably not the app for you. Review Source BM Brad M. Consultant Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Macrium Reflect, a requirement for any PC User" June 3, 2021 5.0 I have deployed Macrium free and for-fee products at most of our clients and have no bad things to say. It has all the features we need, is easy to install and just works. It backs up, restores and even images drives. I have used it at businesses, both large and small and on friends' and relatives' PCs. Pros It installs easily, can be used for free and just works. Cons Minimal downsides, it seems to do everything we need as well as necessary. Review Source AG Aaron G. Owner Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Outstanding PC backup" December 12, 2019 5.0 Having reliable image-level backups is crucial to our business. When a machine goes down or is replaced, this makes it super easy to re-image onto new hardware. We also use it for customer machines. If we need to clone someone's PC for troubleshooting, we can easily do this with Macrium. Pros We use Macrium Reflect to perform regular backups on all our desktops. Very, very reliable. Excellent compression and deduplication capabilities. Cons Its only flaw is lack of support for cloud services like Amazon S3 or Azure Blob storage. Not very good for offsite backups. Review Source BS Bryce S. Technical Specialist Computer Hardware Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Macrium Reflect Home User Review" December 4, 2018 4.0 My overall experience has been very positive, as the backup tool is easy to use and intuitive, and provides peace of mind. The cloning feature needs work, especially when dealing with boot / recovery partitions specifically, but otherwise for a free program Macrium Reflect is fantastic. Pros The most useful feature of this software is without question its cloning / backup ability. I've used it over 4 times to clone HDD's to SSD's- to keep from having to transfer everything manually and reinstall Windows. I've also used it to keep backups, which it has a genius way of doing. You choose the folders you want to back up, and the program will compress all of them into a single file which can be moved as you want. When you want to extract your files from the backup, you open the file and Macrium will mount it as removable storage, allowing you to move individual items as if it were a flash drive. Cons Sometimes, the software will not correctly clone the boot partitions correctly, leading to a failure of Windows to boot after cloning a hard drive to an SSD. It is easy to fix, but still annoying. Review Source RW Russell W. President Management Consulting Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Finally found the best backup" April 21, 2022 4.0 I have several computers in different locations (all mine) for which I want to have backups and images for bare metal recovery. I have found that selecting files to restore is super-simple. I like the way the product mounts the image as another drive and lets you find the files you want so easily. Pros It is easy to use, reliable and even the free option provides enormous benefit. After several other apps, this is the one that really works. Cons Hard to think of anything negative. It works perfectly, is simple to use, etc. What's not to like? Switched from [Paragon Backup & Recovery](https://www.capterra.com/p/197935/Paragon-Backup-Recovery/) Wasn't pleased with the price of one for what I needed from it and reliability and ease of use were an issue for me with Paragon. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Summer Intern Computer Software Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Windows-Based Drive Management" October 20, 2020 5.0 With a free version and trial available, it's hard to argue against the use of Macrium Reflect if you feel you could use its tools. Give it a try. Pros Macrium Reflect is a drive management tool, allowing you to format, clone, restore, and partition drives. Reflect provides a clean interface for drive management. For basic use, the free version gives access to some nice basic drive management functions. Cons As with other drive management programs, inexperienced users need to take care when using the program to avoid erasing data or corrupting drives. Since Reflect runs off of windows, it can be tricky to manage drives running using another file system, manage certain disk images, and do work related to the drive that Windows is running of off. Review Source DS David S. IT Tech Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Effective and Reliable backups" December 14, 2019 5.0 Macrium Reflect has been a reliable backup solution for my system. It wasn't the least nor the most expensive, but cost was not a major factor for my decision making. Ease of use and reliability were the most imporant for me and it checks those boxes. Pros It was pretty easy to create the backup jobs. Selecting drives/partitions or folders is straight-forward and exclusions are easily defined. It's easy to mount an image and selectively restore files. Cons Scheduler needs work. I wanted to have weekly full and daily incrimental and ended up having to create two different backup jobs to accomplish this. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Staff Test Engineer Medical Devices Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Macrium Reflect" December 17, 2018 5.0 Experience with Macrium has been limited to creation of backup images. Luckily, I have not needed to restore anything. That said, keeping my PC images up to date has been easy and I'm sure if something occurred I would be back in business ASAP. The prep for restore was easy, and was able to create a startup DVD flawlessly if it became needed. Pros Easy to image your drive and keep backups up to date Cons Have not encountered any issues with my usage, so no cons to note Review Source Pascal V. it technicien Construction Used the software for: 2+ years ### "good imaging software" November 13, 2023 5.0 Pros Really good imaging and backup products easy to use Cons stop the free version, need to buy license Review Source AP André P. PreSales Consultant Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Keep it simpel" January 27, 2021 4.0 Macrium Reflect is easily licensed and uses Windows standards like VSS. After installation (about 10 min) the system is ready to use and can create a backup. It is also possible to restore hardware independent data. Pros very easy to install and use. It comes in the Enterprise version with Sitemanager to coordinate the entire installation of Macrium in your company. Cons Only on Windows base, do support for Linux! Review Source Response from Paramount Software December 12, 2024 Hi André, watch this space - we've put a Linux version of our business software, SiteBackup, on our roadmap for development. MD Massimo D. Responsabile IT Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Affidabilità assoluta" November 28, 2022 5.0 Pros Oltre alla facilità di utilizzo, l'aspetto più importante è l'assoluta affidabilità della funzione cloning. Non è mai capitato, contrariamente ad altri sw, che ci fossero inconvenienti sul s.o. ospite una volta duplicato il disco. Inoltre, anche le politiche d'uso sono molto vantaggiose Cons Per il momento nulla da segnalare, non abbiamo avuto modo di testare le altre funzionalità Alternatives considered [Acronis True Image](https://www.capterra.com/p/234347/Acronis-True-Image/) Reason for choosing Macrium Reflect Workstation Politiche d'uso/licensing - Affidabilità Review Source VA Victor A. IT Manager Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Great to image your system" March 31, 2019 4.0 I was trying to create images of the laptops we have at work. I do use it for the free version to just have an image of the best working state of the laptop. Pros I liked the ease of use to fully image my system in case of a failure. It does have password protection which is good if you are storing and image of your disk elsewhere for backup. I liked the fact that I can easily set up schedules to backup my image on a daily basis without having me to think about it. Loading the image back from a restore is also a breeze once set up properly. For me, it worked for windows 7-10 with no issues. Cons Freeware did not do incremental backups. You would need to pay to get that. It's a bit complicated to do file backup or file syncing. I guess this is more of an image restore than anything else. I did find it a bit difficult to set up. Also the file was quite large for the initial download. Review Source Kevin Y. Owner/ 1 Man Army Used the software for: 2+ years ### "My go to for cloning drives." April 10, 2018 5.0 Pros clone drive, image drives, restore drives, all for free. very simple and fast internal, external, or drives in a dock, it doesn't care. Cons No cons really. I've used this software for around 3 yrs now and never had an issue. No to mention free is always a good thing. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Pastor Non-Profit Organization Management Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "What a lifesaver! " March 15, 2019 4.0 Macrium Reflect has made it possible to upgrade the hardware of my laptop without worrying about losing my data. Having the ease of browsing an image without special software makes this a great application. Having the ease of access to data in an image saves me time and gives me the peace of mind I need knowing my data is safely backed up. Pros Having used a similar product in the past, I made the switch to Macrium Reflect because I could get a free edition that had powerful features for personal use. I was able to clone my hard drive before replacing it and have an image that I browse with Windows Explorer. This is a powerful and easy to use software package. You can even boot your backup in a virtual machine! Cons The more advanced features will require you to purchase a license. However, the free version has many features that will meet many of your basic needs. Review Source WJB Warren James B. IT Support Engineer and SharePoint Admin Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Imaging software for creating full HD backups" June 28, 2018 4.0 Pros You can easliy create and restore images of you hard drive for full backups so that you do not loose any data of system information Cons There is no real clone feature that i have found on the free version so that you do not have to create an image of the drive before you restore it. Review Source RM RICARDO M. Proprietário Computer Software Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Excelente custo benefício" May 21, 2021 5.0 Ele funciona muito bem de forma automática, sem "pesar" na máquina. Pros A interface é fácil, muitas opções úteis de backup e muito vantajoso se comprar o pack de 4 licenças. Podem conferir aqui https://www.macrium.com/products/home. Cons Nada pra dizer. O software me atende muito bem. Review Source hM hamid M. support associate Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "will not convert mbr to gpt" April 28, 2019 5.0 been using it for years, but this new task that i was trying to accomplish, i can not Pros if all you want to do is backup your gpt/mbr and restore it to its original state, then it is flawless Cons will not clone mbr to gpt will not migrate mbr to gpt will not support mbr to gpt conversion i guess you get the picture by now. i'm not sure why this task is beyond their bailiwick, but it is, and the problem is that in their literature, they never disclose this, so that trying to migrate a mbr system to gpt becomes a futile effort in trial and error Review Source GH George H. Data Analyst Education Management Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Macrium Reflect is my tool for Disk/Drive Management" May 30, 2020 4.0 I'm glad Macrium allow home users to use this for free. If I need it for work, I will recommend this app. Pros Reflect allows me to have full control of setting up drives as well as backing them up to an image. I run multiple operating systems and Reflect allows me to set up the drives so I can load additional OS to SSD, traditional hard drives, USB drives, etc. Speed and response is very good. Can't beat the free home version. Cons The interface is fairly clean. You do need a certain level of knowledge to use this tool, otherwise, you can break your drives and bad things will happen :-) Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Project Manager Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "One of the best partition management software" September 28, 2020 5.0 My experience has been so good, because it allowed me to make most of the operations that i faced when a disk support has been needed. Pros It has a lot of options to manage partitions among storage devices, either base installed and external, mostly for cloning olperations. Cons it´s a bit hard when you are cloning the system´s base partition into an usb storage device because it needs to lock the drive, booting from it's custom boot software, but sometimes the drives are enumerated different from windows and the clone fails because it doesn´t find the devices where are suppoused to be. Review Source Similar Products Featured ## Send me user reviews about this product ### Fill out the form and we'll send a list of the top-rated software based on real user reviews directly to your inbox.