Windows 10: Bootable USB drive

Discus and support Bootable USB drive in Windows 10 Backup and Restore to solve the problem; Good idea *Smile will give that a try ... As I say been using PC's for years but still a bit new to this side of things, although I do back up... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Backup and Restore' started by stuarttunstall, May 18, 2017.

  1. WOT
    WOT Win User

    Bootable USB drive


    Free is all you need.


    Bootable USB drive [​IMG]
     
  2. cereberus Win User

    Read this tutorial

    Backup and Restore with Macrium Reflect Windows 10 Backup Restore Tutorials
     
    cereberus, May 20, 2017
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  3. stuarttunstall, May 20, 2017
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  4. cereberus Win User

    Bootable USB drive

    All credit goes to our resident Super Guru @Kari.

    MR is the Rolls Royce of imaging tools!
     
    cereberus, May 20, 2017
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  5. That is why I am buying the HOME version rather than the free after reading all the good reviews on here , the incremental backups may be useful and similar to Memeo I use now, but I will use both still, Memeo for the automatic backups but maybe once a week do a fail safe full image/back up if all fails... MUCH easier to restore if anything went wrong...

    Memeo needs me to install everything first then restore rather than all in one... (I presume that is correct lol)
     
    stuarttunstall, May 20, 2017
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  6. One more question.... sorry *Smile

    Will Macrium work OK with the latest Windows 10 CU 1703?

    Just been reading a few posts on the Macrium forum and it seems that there is not a winpe version for 1703 .. New recovery disk after Updating Windows 10
     
    stuarttunstall, May 20, 2017
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  7. cereberus Win User
    That post is talking about new winpe features that might come with 1703 that could be utilised by software developers. Macrium Reflect might use those features to provide new features at some point in the future. However, the existing Winpe for 1607 is fine and works perfectly on 1703 - used it many times.

    In fact, for compatibility reasons due to a crap bios on my pc, I am using winpe 4 from Windows 8. This means there are some really advanced features I probably cannot use but those features are for corporate systems and I would never use them anyway.

    So in simple terms, it is fine.
     
    cereberus, May 20, 2017
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  8. cereberus Win User

    Bootable USB drive

    A really great plus of the paid version is Rapid Delta Restore. If, for example, you screwed up permissions on some files in a system folder which is hard to undo, and can stop parts of OS working, or you deleted some files but did not know what, then if you restore the backed up image from earlier over current install, it only restores the differences.

    I did this recently and the Restore took 2 minutes instead of usual 30+ minutes.

    Of course, any new data since last image backup is also removed if on partitions being restored but that is no different to any restore (also why I keep data in a separate partition).
     
    cereberus, May 20, 2017
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  9. Thank you all for the great advice and answering my queations... just about to pay now and get my first image done... better be safe...

    Took me years to realise I should do this lol

    Stuart
     
    stuarttunstall, May 20, 2017
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  10. Now the owner of the full HOME version of Macrium Reflect *Smile

    Just need to install now and create the rescue USB and my first image... Will do that tomorrow when I have a bit more time...

    Thank you all for the help and advice, I do appreciate it..
     
    stuarttunstall, May 21, 2017
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  11. I know this has been answered, as an idiot I just want to be sure... I have just formatted my new 16GB USB drive "fat32" is that all I need to do with the drive?

    When I install Macrium Reflect it will do the rest for m *Smile
     
    stuarttunstall, May 22, 2017
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  12. Here goes... paid version installed.... rescue USB created (yet to test) and now creating my first image... very easy to use... or seems to be☺ taking about 1 hour or just over to do the first image to My external drive of my 1TB drive with 185GB used this includes 40GB Windows.old folder and installation folder for the CU update... Does that sound right, time wise?

    Started at 16.39 now 17.48 and 2 mins left or there abouts ... 5 partitions

    Hopefully a little safer now lol

    Cam you use the notebook whilst doing the image? ... seems to slow mine down a bit though

    **UPDATE**

    Took about an hour and 10 mins to do the full image, just doing the verify now *Wink

    I presume the differential and incremental backups are much quicker?
     
    stuarttunstall, May 25, 2017
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  13. cereberus Win User

    Bootable USB drive

    I always use disk cleanup before a full image backup to delete windows.old + temp files etc. to keep size down. No real point in backing up windows.old as you can just backup previous version anyway.

    Diff/inc backups will only take a few minutes for average user.
     
    cereberus, May 25, 2017
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  14. I did think of that after I started the image...Lol...

    If I deleted the folders will they delete from the image with the diff/inc backups?
     
    stuarttunstall, May 25, 2017
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  15. cereberus Win User
    Sort of - when you restore from diff or inc, they will instructions not to restore windows.old from full image. Personally, I would redo full image.
     
    cereberus, May 26, 2017
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