Windows 10: Disk Boot Failure, Attempting to restore EFI partition

Thanks much again @dalchina for your support and advice!

So while I am awaiting my SSD RMA from Samsung I'm looking into backup solutions as you've mentioned above. Long story short: I did try to set up an automated backup awhile back (with it's own dedicated drive) through Windows (which just backed up "critical" files) but found the process cumbersome and of relatively little value at the point where I actually needed to restore.

This was in Win7 though, so perhaps it's improved in Win10?

Is there any scheme out there that can give me an active "clone" of my boot drive in a manner that might make it easier to hot swap the drive in the event of a failure - or is having an automated backup image just a better solution altogether?

I have a RAID array currently for my data partition but I've found these partitions not optimal for boot - thus I've been running with an SSD boot + RAID data configuration for awhile now.

Is Macrium Reflect my best option for imaging my boot partition - will the home version suffice or is it worth biting bullet and purchasing a license?

Thanks!!!

 

Macrium Reflect (free) is perfectly adequate for normal users.
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You have control of the number of images kept; you can schedule images.

Beware automated though- ideally your backup is offline, powered down, physically separate. (Think potential power spike, ransomware propagation.... not to mention fire flood and theft.

Backup and Restore (Windows 7) exists as such in '10. Some people have learnt to use it and live with its quirks; others decry it and praise Macrium. It's not been updated, improved, documented.