You currently have javascript disabled. Several functions may not work. Please re-enable javascript to access full functionality. Posted 19 December - PM. I am attempting to make a system image of a Windows 10 laptop. This is a brand new laptop with most of the crapware uninstalled so I wanted a copy of it that way in case of disaster.
It is a Toshiba Satellite. So far however it has taken 5 DVDs and 5 hours of copying. By the looks of the progress bar it will take at least 4 more DVDs. Am I missing something here? This seems excessive on all fronts to me. Please help and explain to me what I need to do to make some kind of backup of this clean system to restore to in case I ever need to.
I do have an initial "System Recovery" on a 16 GB thumb drive of the factory install. Just now noticed that the Backup and Restore page is also labeled with " Windows7 ". What does that mean?
Thanks all. I am feeling really dumb right now and anxious about having a good copy of this OS to restore from. Hi everyone, I am attempting to make a system image of a Windows 10 laptop. Which is insanely too small, as is a 16GB flash drive. But you've already figured that out. But it's not excessive.
If it only had that much on it that will take you over 20 DVDs to create a system image on. Noted above. A System Recovery disc or USB thumb drive is nothing more than the Windows utilities necessary to try to fix an unbootable computer or to recover using a system image you've created when you can't use the repair facilities to revive the machine.
The "boot disc" is probably your Windows 10 install media, but I can't be absolutely certain of that. There are many different things that can take the form of a bootable disc.
The Backup and Restore utility was carried over directly from Windows 7 and can be used to work with images from Windows 7, Windows 8, or Windows There's no other significance to it, really. For myself, I far prefer the USB 3. I've found these far more durable, and handy, than the full sized desktop drives. I also use it as the File History drive for my Windows 10 laptop and my partner's Windows 8.
So long as you get yourself a reasonable backup drive in the near future it's highly unlikely that you're going to have a catastrophic failure at any moment. Just pick one up in the next day or two or wait until the "day after Christmas" sales. It will do a much saner, efficient, job of making actually-restorable backups of both your OS and data partitions. It just finished the backup to the sixth DVD.
I can only hope that it was a successful, albeit a painful venture that took over 6 hours to do. Details required : characters remaining Cancel Submit 2 people found this reply helpful. Was this reply helpful? Yes No. Sorry this didn't help. Thanks for your feedback. It takes just under 10 minutes to make a full image of my C: drive, with about 92 GB of data, but that includes verifying the image afterwards. I write image files to an attached USB 3. But take that with a grain of salt. There are lots of hardware and software variables that affect how long it takes to write an image.
Also, I don't have to do a full backup every time. I could save time by making incrementals. It's pretty much the same thing that I wrote: " There are lots of hardware and software variables that affect how long it takes to write an image.
A better question to ask, if you're interested, is: What are some things I can do to make my system image as quickly as possible? Here are some things I do:. How does one do this in Win. Details required : characters remaining Cancel Submit. Choose where you want to search below Search Search the Community. Search the community and support articles Windows Windows 10 Search Community member. How long should it take to do a "Systems Image Backup" on Win. Of course, there is very little chance that you can successfully restore the system image to another computer.
All in all, this part has introduced you to the difference between Windows system image vs backup. As you can see, regular backup is better than system image when it comes to speed, storage space, flexibility, and compatibility. But when your system crashes, a system image is a better choice.
However, the system image is used for a specific purpose. The purpose of it is to safeguard your computer and avoid reinstalling your system in the worst case.
For example, when your computer has been attacked by a virus or malware, and you cannot eliminate these viruses, using a system image can quickly restore your computer to its normal state. System image vs backup? Which one is better? This post has listed their advantages and disadvantages, and now I can judge which one is suitable for me. Click to tweet. After knowing the difference between system image vs backup, then do you know how to create a system image?
As we mentioned above, there is a snap-in tool in Windows that you can use to create a system image. It is easy to use the snap-in tool to create a system image in Windows 10, but before you do that, you need to prepare an external hard drive with a large capacity. Now follow the instructions below to create a system image. Step 1: Type Control Panel in the Search bar, then click the best match one to open it.
Step 4: Choose a location to save your backup, and then click Next. You can choose to save your system image to a hard disk or DVD. Step 5: Choose which drives you want to back up, system-related partitions are chosen by default and you cannot include the drive that you are saving the backup to. Then click Next to continue. Step 6: Confirm your backup settings and then click Start backup. Then wait for the backup to complete. And after the backup completed successfully, click Close.
Here are steps of creating a system image with Windows snap-in tool. After you have completed these steps, you have successfully created a system image. MiniTool ShadowMaker is a piece of powerful and professional backup and restore software. Not only can you back up partitions and disks, but you can also back up files and folders. It also enables you to back up the operating system. And you can easily restore the system image to another computer because MiniTool ShadowMaker can handle the incompatibility issue.
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