When the process completes, you’re finished. You can now click the “Shut Down” button at the bottom left corner of your screen to shut down your PC. Remove the Macrium Reflect recovery image and restart your PC. It should boot up normally without any problems and be in the state it was in when you created that full system backup image.
if you only backup certain folders, when you have a disk failure you will need to reinstall windows, reinstall apps then restore you data files from your backup. takes hours. a full system image can be restored fully in a matter minutes. my full system image (windows and apps partition 200Gb) takes less than 10 minutes to create with macrium reflect and has no impact on performance (ie I continue to use the pc while its doing it) windows backup is being deprecated and Microsoft recommend using third party software for backups. the free version of Macrium reflect is popular. and can be downloaded from https://www.macrium.com/reflectfree have a look at the user guide for instructions. https://knowledgebase.macrium.com/display/KNOW7... and/or the quick start guide https://knowledgebase.macrium.com/display/KNOW/... Note: This is a non-Microsoft website. The page appears to be providing accurate, safe information. Watch out for ads on the site that may advertise products frequently classified as a PUP (Potentially Unwanted Products). Thoroughly research any product advertised on the site before you decide to download and install it.