John Doe wrote:
Cy Burnot wrote:

John Doe wrote:

Do it the easy way. Buy yourself a suitable fast SSD for your main
primary drive. That includes Windows and programs. Also buy a dirt
cheap and huge conventional drive for multimedia and Macrium Reflect
browsable copies of your SSD. Make incremental copies as your
installation progresses throughout its life. Keep a notes file that
indicates the changes you want to make and all of the changes you
have already made (by simply moving the "To Do" lines to the "Done"
area). Immediately after restoring a pristine copy, make whatever
changes are in your notes file and then immediately make another
copy. From that point, you are testing the copy and having lots of
fun knowing that nothing can damage it since you have a backup.

Could you be a little more specific about "incremental copies"? What
am I making incremental copies of?

Your main drive, the SSD drive. The one with Windows and programs on it.
The one without multimedia files. Think of it as a file that is
repeatedly edited. Naturally you make (incremental) copies throughout
the file's lifetime.

What are "browsable copies"?

When Macrium Reflect makes a backup copy of your primary SSD drive, it
becomes a browsable read-only file. I rarely need to, but that file can
be browsed and the files within it can be copied out of it.

Macrium Reflect also includes .mrimg to .vhd conversion.
And in Windows 8, you can go to Disk Management and
"Attach" a .vhd file to mount it. So there are multiple
ways to pass the information to other computers, even
computers that don't have Macrium on them. As long
as you did a conversion of course.

Paul