He carried the USB stick to The Titan like a priest carrying a chalice. He plugged it in, booted into the BIOS (spamming F2 like his life depended on it), and set the USB as the primary boot device.

Using his wife’s laptop, he downloaded the installer. He paid for the Home edition without blinking—$70 was a bargain compared to losing his reputation. He inserted a 16GB USB stick and launched the "Rescue Media Builder."

And that is the story of how a 64-bit imaging tool running on a dead Windows 10 machine brought a small business back from the dead.

He pointed to the mrimg file on the external drive. He dragged the "C:" partition from the image to the new SSD. Macrium Reflect automatically adjusted the partition sizes because the new drive was bigger.

A new feature caught his eye: . Normally, restoring an image takes an hour. But because the new drive was an SSD and the image was contiguous, Macrium used a 64-bit direct memory access driver to write at nearly 3GB/s.

Leo now runs Macrium Reflect every Sunday at 2:00 AM. It performs a differential backup—only the changes since the last full image. It takes twelve minutes. He keeps three rotating external drives in a fireproof safe.