Windows 10: Windows won't let me recover from an image backup.

I have made an image backup of my system at an earlier state on an external hard drive, and windows 10 simply won't let me restore the machine from this image. I have tried everything from advanced startup options, then it won't let me do it because the recovery drive is on the drive that will be formated during recovery. It then gives you the option to make a recovery disc, but then it of course doesn't provide you the option to do this on a USB stick, and fails because there is no DVD burner in the machine. From within windows it lets me build a recovery disk on a USB, but then it pops up wi

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Skype won´t wok in 17063

Skype Won´t work... games won´t work...

Making backup and re-format...

Maybe I Install a Windows 7 again, At least, all of my games run smoothly ...Sadness!!

*Banghead

 

[HELP]Image recovery issues

Guys i am trying to fix my cousins Asus Eee netbook. It has a backup image file that is partitioned on the hard drive but when I go to use it the app will run through a few steps and stop. It is running Vista . Any suggestions?

 

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.