Thanks for the reply. Understand it all a bit better now.

I am posting this out of curiosity for info. not because i am having problems.
Which is better, winows system restore or Macrium Reflect restore image?
or are they totall different. Is one better /...

Thankyou. Will do a USB rescue stick

When I boot laptop I get option for win 10 or Macrium (rescue or recovery). I see this everytime I boot but never clicked on it.
Do I need it , I know how to disable it in Reflect if necessary. I...

Thanks for the help Ghot.
All ship shape and ok.

Thank you. will have a go at it.

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Done the clone. Everything seems ok.
Here is the new Disk Management.
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oops . yes I meant Macrium

I want to clone my laptop spin disk to an SSd,
The laptop disk is 1tb and the SSD is 250gb, win10
I have atteched the Macromedia clone/image window What do I need to have checked?

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Thanks again'
I did a system restore and it seems to have got all sorted.
Now working ok.
Thanks again'

Thanks Sumuria
I don't have that option in my display settings.

When I mirror to my panasonic tv my laptop shows perfectly on tv screen but my laptop screen goes black.
It has worked ok in the past so dont know what I have done to cause this.
My laptop is a HP...

I tried all the suggestions but nothing worked so I did a repair install with the Media Creation Tool.
Now everything is back to normal.
Once again thanks for the replies and suggestions.

I don't know if it was there before because I have never looked for it.

Thanks 3nd.
Tried them all but no joy.
PS. Win defender doesnt appear in programs and features so can't uninstall.

The little shield logo for defender has gone from the task bar.
I have gone into the settings and there is no option listed to turn on defender or to add to the task bar.
any ideas? cheers

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I would like one please.

Thanks

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Thanks Rick.

I suppose the obvious question now is........ what's the best free alternative to Reflect?
I have always used it very successfully so never looked into anything else.

Thanks for the replies and help. I downloaded the Media Creation Tool as suggested and ran it saving files and apps.
I seems to have worked ok. So thanks again.

I have just done update and get the following error message

2022-08 Security Update for Windows 10 Version 21H2 for x64-based Systems (KB5012170)
error. (0x800f0922)
The cumulative update and...

Thanks to all.

Laptop is Lenovo T400.
I have 80gb space on disk, chkdsk and sfc both ok.
I ran the ISO again without updates but got the same messages.

I used the Media Creation Tool to try and upgrade from 1903 to the latest versions.
After message saying installing I got the message "This PC can't run windows 10" and " you can't install win 10 on...