How To Create a System Image Backup And Do A System Restore In Windows 10

How To Create a System Image Backup And Do A System Restore In Windows 10

In this video we're going to be taking a look at how you can create a System Image Backup in Windows 10. A system image is important to have especially if you start having problems in Windows and want to restore your computer back to a time when it wasn't experiencing any issues.

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[OlGoodJoe]

Thank you I really appreciate your clear video explanation.
I have always used Windows System Images as my weekly backup system. I actually have the external drive a clock timer that turns on at a specific (undetermined time), when task scheduler makes the backup, then a bat file runs and renames the file appending the current date on the end so it won't accidentally be overwritten and then the clock turns off external drive so that it is OFFLINE except for the few minutes it makes the backup. This process hardens our backup system making it impenetrable to ransomware and other types of attacks. Finally, I also use a 3 drive manual weekly rotation for redundancy.

[IgnoreMyChan]

Huge kudos for also explaining how to restore the image as well. Thanks!

[maazi_Ikenna]

So many thanks to you, boss, for lots of information packed in a single video.

[bryanlumley]

Thanks for the video, my computer won’t start, but I made a image a week earlier, and after watching your video, I was able to retrieve it from my spare drive. Thanks.

[sam]

This is VERY useful! I am upgrading my sisters 1 Tb Mechanical SEAGATE (vomit) hard drive and a 480gb ssd. I WAS using Apricorn and their SSD to USB connector with EZ Gig to transfer. I have spent 2 nights trying my hardest to get it working. Didn't get far.

But using the system image backup and restore WITHIN Windows helps a LOT! I had almost forgotten about doing this.

Thank you!

[elixus]

thanks for this simple yet effective tutorial!!!

[JT-KSOL]

@Tech Bern how much storage on a flash drive is best to create this? including the repair just which I believe you skipped business video. Will a 120 gig flash drive be sufficient or perhaps a 256 gig flash drive? I have Windows 10 I traded them to gig flash drive but I had trouble using some of the features in the restore Drive menu so that's why I thought other larger capacity drives such as 256gb. This is kind of new to me. I would like to create both parts of this.

[keyiwan]

I used to backup in this way but now I think aomei backupper is a more convenient way than backup with built-in utility, it saves much time.

[steverimnac]

Good video. The exact process I am planning to used and have used once before.

[ultraali]

Thank you so much. Very glad that Windows can do this!

[khmerwargamer]

Thank you for sharing😊. If the OS can’t loading into the windows how to restore it?

[hunterjoy]

This way worked for me, thank you for your tutorial.

[srikanthsidhu]

My laptop got SMART disk error I had made system recovery in flash drive and system image recovery for windows 10 os

Will my hard disk work when I format it and load original OS will it ask key again?

With a new hard disk can I load older original OS windows 10 ?

[Kntryhart]

Thanks for the video! Here's the issue I am having. I have a valid image file saved to an external hard drive (E:). When I go through the steps, all is fine except E: does not appear (as shown in your video...4:35). Instead, a very old image file appears and I can't figure out how to path-out to the external drive. Suggestions? Thanks!

[NottzLyf]

Is a system image the same as a system save point, been advised to download software when i setup my laptop and not connect to the internet for any other reason but to download Macrium Reflect, but i’ve always just made restore points manually every few months and reverted back to them if ive had trouble or the computer plays up, they said to not connect to the internet on the initial start up and bypass all the network stuff so you dont have to install all the available updates that could create issues, is it the all same thing, should i back it all up to a drive cus in struggling eith understanding that side of it, and really dont get partitions

[responsiblejerk]

I have this stored on a partition of my HD, but I was not allowed to select that drive, it was greyed out, and the system image was not detected. Had to do a total reset.

[Tecalitlan]

Great video. Question, I have an external drive and I have two PC's, one with Windows 11 and the other one with Windows 10, can I save the images on the same SSD external drive? So if I ever need to do an image restore, the PC can select which one wil work? Or does each image drive have to be saved on two different external drives?

[luisalee]

This way is useful to me, but if your pc is unbootable you can use Aomei to backup and restore also helpful.

[docmiaz]

Hello. Could you please tell me where the setup information file is located? I want to install drivers because i had a power outage during a system restore. So I'll be clicking on install drivers instead of next towards the end of the video but I have no clue where the "setup information" file is located. Thank you.

[elawi]

very helpful. I'm gonna send my laptop for repair in a few weeks and I need to make a backup. This vid explained everything very well. Thanks!