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Hey Will!
Just rejoined this forum to tell you not to worry too much about your "mental abilities" like you described in the thread opener.
ROTFLMAO
however, if you really want to have fun, try PXE booting a diskless node when the IDE drive on yer old laptop dies...
[I am 82 and easily backup and restore. I am an average guy. I see your post is dated 2021 so I hope I am not too late. Buy an external drive for $60 (Amazon) and that's all you need. I have a Samsung 500 GB SSD external drive. Macrium, not hard, is good but a little harder than Windows backup and restore. Use Google as an example to back up and restore. if you have any questions feel free to ask me.] Begin upper left create a system image and follow prompts. To restore do not make a disc. Tell me what version of Windows you have. You want to recover in the advanced environment which I can show you.
Maranna,
MS told us to stop using it in 2017.
There's guidance about choosing an alternative in
my ditty - File backup vs imaging, imaging utilities, backing up drivers [post #3] - TenForums
And note, in particular, the link to the excellent TenForumsTutorial on using Macrium reflect [free edition].
If you are still using Windows backup & restore for your system images then you are taking an unnecessary risk with your backups.
All the best,
Denis
Last edited by Try3; 29 Jun 2022 at 07:22.
... That you will never be able to restore it...
And it's funny that they waited until 2017 to announce something that was already a reality since at least 2006.
I was unable to restore a Windows 2008R2 because of this backup software.
Nearly lost my job at the moment because of this.
I never used it again and every now and then, I always have a minute to bitch on it.
There is no risk. They announced they are not going to make any further changes to it. It is not going to explode. VHD(x) images have some advantages, not least that they can be accessed by other applications, should the user wish to.
I just had another quick look at the hasleo thing. Seems to work ok, it is quite straightforward and it now includes scheduling as well as copying files out of an image.
I would still recommend aomei backupper as the simplest to use
It should always be possible to restore from a vhd/vhdx image. There are numerous ways to do it.
It can be mounted in windows disk management. From that mounted image there are numerous possibilties:
copying out individual files, or copying the entire contents onto a partition with xcopy, for example, to effect a restore. Or make an image of the mounted vhd with some other program , which could then be used to restore. Or make a .wim image or the mounted vhd, name it install.wim and pop that into the installation media sources folder.
Or it can be applied directly to a partition by other programs such as diskgenius, in addition 7-zip can handle vhd files and there others...
That is one of the advantages of vhd backups. Unlike many proprietary image formats.
The exception would be if the image file has been damaged, which is also the case with any other kind of backup image.