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it seems that we all don't us Windows backup nowadays, especially when there are many good free backup tools out there. they usually perform better in backup and restore, saving you time and trouble.
I would also recommend macrium reflect free or easeus todo backup free.
I prefer to keep my images portable, and to do full images. Windows imaging is NOT portable, and does incremental imaging. There may be workarounds, but they add complexity and are unnecessary to me.
Macrium works fine for me. I don't have it in my system - simply made a "rescue" thumb drive.
I can restore my image in about 3 minutes, boot-to-boot, and have done so many times.
The actual restore runs in under a minute. It's about 15GB now.
The restore time is SSD to SSD. If restoring from a spinner it takes about 2 minutes.
I run CCleaner before making an image. I've also run the following.
Analyse: Dism.exe /Online /Cleanup-Image /AnalyzeComponentStore
Cleanup: Dism.exe /online /Cleanup-Image /StartComponentCleanup
That got rid of a couple gig as I recall. I've also uninstalled all the supplied bundle apps.
You can use http://winaero.com/blog/how-to-remov...in-windows-10/ as a guide.
I don't remember if I used that guide, but I did it early on. I have about 30 apps installed, but run games from a non-system drive. None are "heavy" like MS Office, VMWare, etc., but I do have LibreOffice installed.
Hi Here's a nice option that Macrium has. I can mount my OS(C drive) Then mount my image (E) drive.
Now I can copy and paste or drag and drop from my image to my OS. The Image is a W10 image that I created when I upgraded.
I have now rolled back to W7. Going to let you big dogs find all the bugs. LOL
Macrium restores can be particularly fast if using its Rapid Delta Restore (RDR) feature when there aren't extensive actual data changes- but that's in paid version only, not the free version.
Thanks for the info! I've never felt the need to get the paid version. I had the paid version a very long time ago, but they dropped me. I never paid again. I supported their paid version once, so I don't feel bad about using the freebie.LOL
I've been using Macrium a very long time!! If I have to pay again, I will!!