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  1. AAAAAAAGH
    Aaaaaaagh Win User

    win 10 why hard to get to system restore


    Trying to get to system restore on my PC because yet again a windows update has broken it!! never happens in Linux and yet it is impossible to find, why do microsoft insist on making access to such an important resource nearly impossible when its needed often with numerous broken updates?

    I found the only way is to use an old dos prompt and a command rstrui.exe is windows really still that backward??

    :)
     
    Aaaaaaagh, Sep 15, 2020
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  2. MACBETH
    macbeth Win User

    Free hard disk space reduce after system restore

    I clear the log from EventVwr.msc but it did not recover much hard drive space. So i try clearing the retore point. Now my free hard drive space is about 34.4GB as compared to 26.6GB after my system restore.
    Anyway before i did a system restore. I did create a system restore point manually from system restore. Will the system restore point account for the lost free hard drive space?
     
    macbeth, Sep 15, 2020
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  3. JELLYROLL
    jellyroll Win User
    How to delete inactive System Image Restore Points in System Restore

    Windows 10 64-bit.
    When I click "show more restore points" in System Restore I see a bunch of old "system image restore points" that were deleted in past and do not correspond to any currently active restore points. Clicking any of these old restore points, I simply get an error message saying they could not be found, and to select another restore point instead.I would like to delete these restore points listings but have been unable to do so.
    So far, I have tried steps mentioned below without any luck :

    Disk Cleanup through (Cwin 10 why hard to get to system restore :) Properties
    Disable System Protection (OFF and ON) in System Protection for OS (Cwin 10 why hard to get to system restore :)
    Disk Space Usage to minimum (slider button all the way to the left then 'Delete all restore points for this drive'),
    Delete all shown Restore points in CCleaner (the problem ones do not show here),
    Reset Windows Backup to Default in Windows 10 with 'Reset_Windows_Backup.bat' utility.

    Any suggestions highly welcome.
     
    jellyroll, Sep 15, 2020
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  4. SUMASAGE
    sumasage Win User

    win 10 why hard to get to system restore

    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.
     
    sumasage, Sep 15, 2020
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