Windows 10: How to know if a system image backup has actually backed everything up?

Just did my first ever system image backup onto an eternal drive in order to wipe and then restore my computer.

The backup finished and seems to have taken up the right amount of space, but when I enter file history > D on my drive, I can only find the contents of my downloads folder, and no other programs or files seem to be on there.

The rest of the drive is a bunch of stuff I don’t understand like Logs and hard disk images. Is there an easy way I can be sure if the backup worked and I’m safe to wipe the computer?

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System image BACKUP ERROR in Windows 10.

Hi Subramanian,

Thank you for posting in Microsoft Community.

Sorry to know that you are facing this issue. We will be glad to assist you.

Share this information to assist you better.

• What are the steps you are trying to create system image backup?
• Are you trying to take system image back up on a External device or Network location?
• What is the exact error message or code you get?

Your reply is very important to ensure a proper resolution. Please get back to us with the above information to assist you accordingly.

 

Using network hard drive for backup

It depends what sort of backup you want to do. If you're happy just backing up regular files, then there are a bazillion (really, that many!) different bits of freeware to do that. There is a good list here:

Download Back Up Tools for Windows - MajorGeeks

and pretty much all of them can do network backups. Some even have fancy options like encryption. Really, the most useful thing is just being able to schedule them and know they ran OK.

You may also want to make a system image backup too, and you'll find that software in the very same list.

I don't have Windows 8 as yet, so I'm afraid I can't suggest any for that platform. Personally, I use Clonezilla for image backups.

 

Creating a System Image backup - keeps looping

Hi,

Thank you for giving us an opportunity to assist you with the query.

I understand the inconvenience caused, now that you have me with you let me take care of this.

The system image is exactly like the mirrored copy of the Operating System which contains the configuration of the Operating System. When you create backup system image your windows 10 comes back to the same position at when the image was created earlier.

As an initial step, I suggest you to make sure that the services required for backup to run successfully is enabled. Refer to these steps:

• 
  Press Windows + R
  keys, type services.msc and press Enter.
  
• 
  In the services window, locate the services
  File history service and the Volume shadow copy service and check if they are running.
  
• 
  If they are not running, right-click and select
  Start to manually start the service.
  
• 
  Check if you are able to create a backup now.
  

Step 1: I suggest you to follow the steps from the below article created by

Andre Da Costa and check if it helps.

How to: Create a system image in Windows 10

How to: Create a system image in Windows 10

Step 2: If the issue still persists, I suggest you to boot the computer in a clean boot state and then check.

Booting the computer in a clean boot state can reduce software conflicts and help identify the root cause of the issue. You can refer to this article for more information:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929135

Note: After troubleshooting, reset the computer to start as usual. Refer to the step
How to set the computer to start as usual after clean boot troubleshooting under more information.

Hope it helps.

Let us know the status, we are glad to assist you further.