Thanks for the link to Macrium, just downloaded, installed and ran it.

Seems to have worked - hopefully will never need it, bit like insurance.

Might even buy the full version later on as it...

turns out I had already tried that path and the same thing happens ie I get a page showing "back up or restore your files" and that's it nothing else anywhere - very odd.

Just about got my new install of windows 10 running how I like and thought I should make a system image on an external back drive just in case.

So I followed the instructions to get to control...

Thanks for all the guys - I think this puts it to bed.

aha - as simple as that then.
I'll just leave it set to accelerate my bulk storage ssd then.

Thanks for putting me straight !

Hi guys,

finally made the leap from Win 7 to Win 10 and built a new machine as per my signature.

It's working quite nicely apart from one minor wrinkle with the Samsung 950 pro ssd and rapid...