Windows 10: Win10 Advice Needed For A Working Backup Strategy!

HiBit of a long start but I feel it's justified, as I hope you will see.I used Win7 and backed up by copying the Windows partition to another removable hard drive. Whenever Windows stopped working I could easily replace the non-working installation with the latest backup and everything worked fine. I used this method, as before I backed up onto non-removable drives and a virus got in and wrecked everything!As Win7 wouldn't update to Win10 due to software issues nothing I tried would install it over Win7, I formatted a new motherboard NVME drive using MBR, created an NTFS partition and instal

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Newbie needs advice moving Win8.1 ==> Win10


In your shoes I would

1. Take a backup of the OS drive with Macrium Reflect, as suggested
2. Download the ISO and do an Upgrade install (step 7 in this tutorial)

Macrium gives you a way back if the upgrade doesn't work, and I also think that doing an Upgrade install is probably likely to be your quickest route to being activated on Windows 10 by the deadline.

Once activated, you can consider doing a clean install later but without the time pressure.

 

need advice - daily backup program to buy??

Reaching out again for excellent team advice about your suggestion for best affordable drive backup program to purchase.
Am losing random files and need to install daily automated document backup.
Several good options around and asking here so I can get daily bakup installed ASAP without getting lost in the weeds.
Anyone able to suggest first-hand experience and advice for Win10 OS?

 

Newbie needs advice moving Win8.1 ==> Win10

Help! Should I "clone" or "image" my PC's HDD? (It seems to have 2 partitions - I guess one contains Window 8.1...)

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