No restore points!

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  1. Posts : 4,594
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       #11

    You can make a restore point anytime you want, if there are no Restore Points for your Operating System drive, than it must be turned off.

    To get to system restore just right click the windows icon at the bottom left of the Taskbar, then choose search, in the search box type system restore and hit enter, there you can see if system restore is turned on for C:, and you can always manually create a restore point.

    You should also install Macrium Reflect to create Disk Images.

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  2. Posts : 342
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    Thread Starter
       #12

    That was the first place I checked C: drive was on and D: had somehow switched itself off but even with them on there seems to come a time when there are no restore points when you want them and I would never remember to make them (my battery bill though forgetting to switch stuff off is awful!)
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  3. Posts : 4,594
    Windows 10 Pro
       #13

    Create a restore point right now, call it Restore Point #1
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  4. Posts : 342
    Windows 10
    Thread Starter
       #14

    Have done that because although I created one yesterday there wasnt one there
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  5. Posts : 15,480
    Windows10
       #15

    No restore points - great. They are unreliable, finicky and I always turn them off. Far better to use full and incremental images to a schedule using tool like Macrium Reflect. OK, incremental capability is not free but if cost of an MR paid licence is an issue, you can use differential backups or AOEMI which does incremental in free version.

    Far more reliable, and with MR paid version Rapid Delta Restore much faster than doing a system restore. Really no contest.
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  6. Posts : 342
    Windows 10
    Thread Starter
       #16

    Is MR just to make a back up of your windows setting or the whole drive? I have 2 seperate coies of data on 2 x 2Tb drives
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  7. Posts : 4,594
    Windows 10 Pro
       #17

    Whatever you tell MR to copy, it will copy. If you use UEFI, you have to copy every partition on the OS drive, not including a data drive of course.

    I don`t do UEFI, I prefer 1 partition for windows, so hopefully a UEFI user will tell you more, but I believe there are 4 total partitions to image if you use UEFI.

    Anyone correct me if I`m wrong.
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  8. Posts : 920
    Windows 10 Pro
       #18

    By default Macrium will copy the MS Recovery partition, UEFI partition, System Reserved partition and the Windows partition if you choose the "Image partitions required to backup and restore Windows", any extra partitions on the C:\ drive will not be included unless the user adds them.
    So with one click you can select all partitions needed to restore Windows.
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  9. Posts : 342
    Windows 10
    Thread Starter
       #19

    sounds easy ill give it a go thanks
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