Windows 10: System Image

Yes you can. Just double click on the backup image, a windows will popup and you can mount & explore as a regular folder. Use drag & drop to selectively restore any file(s) you want. Here's an example:
Double click on the Image (Win10RTM_Full1-00-00), put a check mark on C, mounted as G

 

Thanks! I just checked out their web site. According to their descriptions, the free doesn't but the paid Home does. If I didn't have and like Paragon Hard Disk Manager this might be a nice alternative.

 

I've been doing it on the free version for years. You can even mount the image file, and then share the resulting drive letter on the network.

 

Interesting. I'll check out the free version - nothing to lose. Well, maybe some disk space *Smile

 

I have a 1TB external USB that I have made bootable to the Macrium Free rescue program. It has 6 images from different computers on it. I can boot any of my computers from it and restore the image, I can mount the images using Macrium Free and pull single files from the image, or I share either the drive on the network and mount the images on remote computers, or mount the image on the server and share the resulting virtual drive.

 

I've just downloaded Macrium reflect but it's doesn't say anywhere about it being compatible with Win 10.

 

I'm using it.

Windows 10 and Macrium - Macrium Software


How to Create an Image of Your PC Before Upgrading to Windows 10

 

I downloaded Reflect free, created a recovery DVD, backed up my OS disk image, deleted and re-created the system RAID 0 disk, and I'm using the restored image as we speak. Very nice. Works fine with Win 10.

 

Thanks. I'm making a image now *Wink

 

I've done a backup using Acronis True Image 2016. Thanks for the help!

 

If you did the testing then you must know the answer to this question...

If you create a system image with just the critical partitions and move it to a smaller drive, which is large enough for those partitions, will it work even if the total partitioned space on the original drive is too large to fit on the smaller drive...

Sorry if I missed this in your tutorial.

 

It completely depends on the size of each drive in question and the compressed size of the image. If the image is too large then no, it won't work.

 

The question was trying to be non-specific so as to not get into the weeds with drive sizes. I am not referring to the actual Image size and whether it will fit in a partition, but will the image, when recovered, fit on a smaller drive.

The problem used to be, the image would need a target drive as least as large as the total partitioned space on the original Hard drive. For instance, if there were 300 GBs of partitioned space (all partitions) on the original drive, the image of that drive would not fit on a 250 GB drive. Now, if only 120 GB of the 300 GBs is used for the Critical partitions, would that image fit on the 250 GB drive?

There have been many instances of someone wanting to move their install to an SSD, which is normally smaller than the original HDD, so this question comes up quite a bit.

Sorry to be a pain, but if you have not tested this, I will need to.

 

I've not tested that no as I personally wouldn't try to recover an image of a larger drive onto a smaller one.

 

We can make it fit!! *Banghead