From: Hank@nospam.invalid   
      
   Paul wrote on 12/20/2025 5:38 AM:   
   > As far as I know, there is some option to put the WinPE Macrium   
   > boots from, right on the C: drive. This is no good for "bare metal restore"   
   > particularly, but, if you want to do "partition at rest" backups   
   > or clones, it might be a useful option. Then you would not   
   > need any USB stick to boot it and make a clone. You'd still   
   > need the SSD drive you are cloning to, of course.   
   >   
   > I haven't tried this, so don't have the first hand experience to comment.   
      
   Yes, and it works perfectly. When you boot, you get a screen showing the   
   options to boot into windows normally, or boot the macrium PE.  If you   
   do nothing it will time out and boot windows normally.   
      
   However, I've never had a problem just creating backup images from a   
   running windows system. It uses shadow copy.  Mostly, you do want to run   
   with windows offline when doing a restore to the system (windows) drive.   
      
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