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What tools are needed to back up laptop to external HDD?
I have acquired a hard drive enclosure for a hard drive from my former laptop and would like to proceed with using it to do a full back up of my laptop in case of a future crash. The question now is, what software is needed to do this?
I've been doing some research here about it, and keep seeing references to Macrium. I had downloaded that before and then discovered that they wanted personal information that I didn't want to give out. I also read that it's a 30 day trial version, which would be good enough to allow me to do a backup, but I can't guarantee my laptop will also crash and need recovery within those 30 days. I'd like a program that will be there when it's needed. It would also stand to reason that the recovery program would have to be present on the backup drive in order to be used. I could be wrong about that.
For simplicity's sake, would using the image backup feature in Windows 10 be good enough? Here's what it is and how to use it: How to Take a Full Backup of Windows 10 on an External Hard Drive