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Thanks a lot guys. That clarifies things for me. I'll just keep the recovery drive with the tools sans system files. Maybe one day it will work with system files. I'm curious though, I created an image to an external drive when I first got the laptop, about a month ago. I did this in windows 10. Does anyone know how? I just cant remember how I ended up with this. Also, with regards to the partitions I see on the C: drive in disk mgmt, there are 2 Dell recovery partitions that were factory created. Would I be able to use the USB recovery drive to access these and restore Windows and factory settings? I talked to Alienware. They were created with AlienRespawn, a third party back up and recovery tool that apparently does not work properly with Win 10 yet. I will check out Macrium as you guys suggested. With this, would I be able to create a back up and in the event of complete HDD failure, restore my computer and Windows and files etc... onto a brand new HDD? Thanks again for the advice.