Hi Jake. Good tutorial but 2 things I think you should have mentioned. 1st- the backup drive must be formatted NTFS. 2nd - You must enable View Hidden Files in File Explorer to be able to see the hidden files created in the Image folders on the External Drive
Jake, The best video I've seen on RU-vid regarding creating a system image and then actually walking us through the step by step process. Please create more videos like these as you could have a big presence on RU-vid. I also recommend getting the free version of Macrium Reflect which will do the same thing of image creation but has more robust settings including automation of the process. Be well, Ravi Peiris M.D.
Excellent video! Using your video as a guide, I should be able to replace my old, damaged hard drive with a new high-speed SSD with all the data obtained from the system image.
Good video mate, i never was really good with windows back up's but after watching this video had no issues at all to create an image backup and transfer i to the new ssd drive. Thanks again mate
So I gather that one can make a System Image of ones primary "C" boot drive using a USB 3.0 to Sata Interface dongle connected Solid State Drive. After one has successfully created the System Image on the Solid State Drive; all one has to do is successfully create a valid Emergency System Restore Disk via the DVD Drive; now one can supposedly go into ones Dell Bios(how does one exactly do that?) and setting ones notebook computer to go alternatively instead into ones DVD Drive as ones primary boot drive after one has placed ones previously burned Emergency System Restore Disk in its tray and also physically move ones solid state drive with its system image backup already successfully previously burned on it? Run through the System Image Restore using the prompts generated from use of Emergency System Restore Disk and allow Microsoft to regenerate the System Image Restore from its saved System Image file and then just reset the BIOS back to booting off the new primary C: Solid State Drive?
My Windows System image got deleted by accident but I recovered all the files without the files structure. Do you have a link for a picture of what is contained in all the othe folders? Like the Log folder, Catalog Folder etc. Pretty much a picture of what is contained within every folder within the Window System Image folder.
A very useful video, thanks. However could you give an indication of how long each process lasted (you seemed to fast forward in places). I can then plan when to do this myself.
It really depends on how much storage your Windows installation takes on your hard drive. It can take only 20 minutes for a small 100GB Windows installation. A 500GB installation may take 45-60 minutes or even more. But you can kick off the process at the end of the day, for example, and it will be done in the morning.
Hi dear sir how are you? hope you will be all right, i want to know that, is that possible so we can make a image of windows to install on any other system with different specifications. as like you have install every thing you want and make image and install on your laptop pc
If you are using USB hard drive, it may be formatted with FAT32 so you would need to 1.) convert the drive to NTFS, or 2.) reformat the disk and select NTFS (this 2nd method will erase all your data so copy off any data you want to keep first). Here's a link to show you how to do either method. www.howtogeek.com/58953/how-to-convert-a-hard-drive-or-flash-drive-from-fat32-to-ntfs-format/
I upgraded from Windows 7 to Windows 10. Then I did a system image backup to another hard drive. I reinstalled Windows 7 from another image file. For some reason system restore will find the windows 7 image and restore it but it can not find the windows 10 image file which I wanted to restore. I'm doing this all from windows 7. I tried using both a 7 and 10 repair disk and it still can't find the system image but it is right there next to the windows 7 image. Any ideas? I added names to each to keep them separate. I remove the name from windows 7 image and it reads fine. But when I do this to the windows 10 image file restore still can't find it.
When I clicked finish this is what popped up. *The system image restore failed.* *Windows cannot restore a system image to a computer that has different firmware. The system image was created on a computer using BIOS and this computer is using EFI.* I took a system image of my old PC using my external hard drive. But I am re using the same hard drive for my new computer. What should I do?
Hi I had a hp laptop pavillion 360x convertible laptop so I lost hp recovery media USB flash drive. Please tell me that how make another set of recovery USB flash drive. Please tell me that I am very thankful to you.
I've created a crummy situation that I haven't seen an answer for. I have two primary drives, RAID 0, that I want to remove and install an SSD drive. When I cloned one of the drives, apparently the drives weren't mirroring, so it copied all of the data on one drive, but there was another 30 something GB on the other drive. I thought the system image would put it all together. Looking at your video, I'm left with putting check marks two per drive. Is that a bad thing? Is it going to merge the two together? I'm letting it back up all 653 GB. I hate to wait a day when it is done to find out that it didn't work. Can you suggest anything to get my two RAID drives moved over to my 1 TB SSD? I REALLY would appreciate it.
Very informative. Is it possible to the clone the main hard drive and use the copy immediately (when needed) without the repair process? For example I have the main hard drive and I made two partitions on it C: & X: I want to get prepared and clone C: to X: (with the ideal settings) and use X immediately whenever needed (somthing like RAID1) but on a single drive. Many Thanks!
Yes. When you make an image, it is a snapshot of your entire system. So when you restore the image to your computer, it will be the exact same as the date/time that you took the image. Any data (docs, photos, videos) should be backed up as well, to the cloud or to an external hard drive or flash drive because your data will also need to be restored after restoring the image. I hope that makes sense.
Answers to questions NO, a drive image from one computer WILL NOT work on another computer. Year ago a company could buy identical computers but now probably a serial number on a chip somewhere stops that! For 9 years I have been using a purchased drive image, there are many good ones! I have NEVER worried about viruses, BECAUSE a drive image RESTORES your computer EXACTLY as it was when you made the image! If anything seems slow or strange I take an hour and restore the OS, no sweat! All your programs and your Windows OS are EXACTLY the same It's Dec 31 2017 I am still running XP and getting upgrades from Microsoft and after I get upgrades I make a drive image of the whole C drive. I SUGGEST saving your Drive Image to the D drive and later(a day or two)an external drive as the writing/restoring to/from the D drive will be faster ! NOW, I save EVERYTHING to my D drive because after a month old restore your My Documents will be a MONTH old!! I SUGGEST before restoring the C drive copy your My Documents to the D drive and External HD C:\Documents and Settings\Xxxx Xxxxx After 9 Years I have 16 GB in MY Documents but I have a 1TB Ex HD
I tried to follow your instructions, but, surprise, surprise, nothing worked [ the story of my life with Windows!!] I have a 64GB thumbdrive, formatted in NTFS, plugged into a free USB port on my laptop. For some reason, the file history program cant see the thumbdrive. There is a yellow box saying ' File History doesn't recognize this drive' . So much for Windows 10!! Has it EVER worked properly????
