Windows own recovery tools doesn't work, need a better solution

This is what dalchina means...

Your newly created backup is a 'Full' disk image. If you open AOMEI again you will be able to add to that backup as either an Incremental or Differential (that's something for you to look up and understand the differences :))

This shows my full disk image at the top and the subsequent daily images made thereafter. Notice how small each subsequent image is. That is because each reflects only changes that have occurred between each set in the chain. These are incrementals. You can restore to any in the chain.



And how they appear in the location used to save them.

agent99 said:

Cerawy said he/she was going to wipe their SSD after having made the backup. Hopefully a recovery disk had already been made or can be made from another computer. However, in my case the recovery disk would not boot. And AOMEI tell you this might happen, right after you have wasted time downloading and installing it.

As a result, AOMEI is no use to me. Unless you can provide a solution?

By the way, it is a Lenovo Thinkpad, I5 processor 8Gb, running Windows 7.

I created a backup CDR and tested it OK. Normally I always restore from the program itself but agree that bootable media is a good safety net.

If that fails then you can still recover by simply quickly installing W10 again and reinstalling AOMEI.

Two more thinks I like about AOMEI,

1/ Its a very small installation compared to other products.
2/ It doesn't keep constantly getting updated, something which tbh is a bit of a pain with other products.

Mooly said:

If that fails then you can still recover by simply quickly installing W10 again and reinstalling AOMEI.

So you do a clean install, add AOMEI then restore using your backup. This from within the new install of Win10? How does that work? Does AOMEI wipe the new install and replace it with the backup while still running from new install??? Hard to imagine just how it does that.

Yes, it would do just that and wipe the new install.

When you use any standard backup program from within Windows (not just AOMEI) the program first loads into RAM and then reboots as it automatically starts the restore process. The drive is then totally overwritten with the information contained in the disk image file. The program is loaded into and running all the time from RAM, not the HDD/SSD.

Most imaging programs have an option to start the recovery process from within windows. They will just reboot the machine into their own recovery media. They might use winpe/linux/dos for that.

In some cases the recovery media cannot be accessed from within windows - e.g. if the bcd recovery sequence is damaged, they might not be able to locate winre.wim on your hard drive. If that happens, they will just prompt you to use your external recovery media. In case you haven't already created external recovery media - some companies have a premade media which you can download. There is a small possibility that the premade recovery media won't be suitable for every machine.

agent99 said:

So you do a clean install, add AOMEI then restore using your backup. This from within the new install of Win10? How does that work? Does AOMEI wipe the new install and replace it with the backup while still running from new install??? Hard to imagine just how it does that.

The .iso file I linked is bootable recovery media. It can be burned as an image to cd/dvd, or extracted to create a bootable usb using rufus, or similar.

The cd/usb can then be booted. It is for windows 7 machines and contains windows explorer and numerous repair/recovery tools - Aomei and many others.

[QUOTE=agent99;1271973]That's a 360MB file! Is one of the many folders on that iso the AOMEI recovery app? /QUOTE]