Windows 10: Why does Microsoft make utility to make Windows 10 image / backup / restore so hard to...

Here is where they hid it, have a 8GB or bigger thumb drive right click windows, go to search input "create recovery drive" follow prompts. Takes a while to make but worth in especially if have single drive, makes a boot drive to help restore rest of files backed up on another device. Remember two types of drives the ones that have failed and ones that will.

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Free hard drive backup/restore program?

Obviously you're looking for something besides your Xp Pro utility that does this?

 

Backup utility

Cobian backup will do file backups locally or to ftp, with or without encryption and compression. However it doesn't do image backups, which is really what you need if want to fully restore your system.

I've used the W7 back up program and Acronis a few times to restore a system and both work great. With Acronis though, you need to burn the recovery cd they suggest FOR EACH and EVERY machine you use it on.

One problem with W7 backup is that seems to break easily. On one machine I did an upgrade re-install and the backup utility doesn't work. No luck in trouble shooting it either. So I now rely on Acronis exclusively for image backups. But I use Cobian for file backups to ftp.

 

Free hard drive backup/restore program?

I am looking for a free (freeware) program that will back up and restore a hard drive. I'm looking to clone a few external hard drives. If the program will backup the used space instead of the whole drive this will be awesome! Thanks for any suggestions.