OK here's my scenario, I have successfully used Macrium Reflect to create images saved on a 1TB external drive. You want to recover in the advanced environment which I can show you.Performance :: Creating Image On Laptop With Macrium Reflect Dec 26, 2015 Tell me what version of Windows you have. What do you think? Is creating a full system back-up something that's beyond the capabilities of an old guy in failing health? Or would you encourage me to take a stab at it? I guess the main question is 'What's the worst that could happen if give it a try and I find I'm incapable of doing it correctly? Could I end up messing up my system so I would end up having to take the PC to the shop anyway?' Begin upper left create a system image and follow prompts. But, as I'm getting by on Social Security, I'd like to try to avoid the expense if I can learn how to do it myself. Of course that made me worry that perhaps I should instead take my laptop to a computer repair shop to have a disk image created.

From what I've read from Googling, both options are easy to use.īut when I posted on a local BBS about my intention to create a full system back up I got this response from the SYSOP: And that there is also a third party app called Macrium 7 Free. I've looked around here in this forum, and found that Windows 10 has a built in option for making and restoring full system backups.

So at this late stage in my life (I'm nearly 80) I've finally realized I'm going to have to learn how to create and restore full system backups on both computers. Thankfully most of my important data files were on my (also refurbished) laptop. And now I'm tasked with the tedious chore of trying to restore my system's settings and all my lost software. My refurbished PC crashed last month and I had to have the hard drive replaced.

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