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The tutorial below can help show you how to do a system restore from a restore point. :)
System Restore Windows 10
I use Aomei Backupper (the free version is fine, I have pro). I've tried various disk imaging programs from Acronis to O&O (and briefly Rollback RX - which is different- when there was a giveaway. It proved ok initially, then problematical).
Many here use Macrium Reflect Free, a slightly cut down version of the pro. It's got some advanced features but doesn't do incremental backups, and the interface is rather more 'geeky'.
Aomei Backupper offers both differential and incremental backups; both are reported as reliable, certainly A B has helped me enormously. All disk imaging products I've seen allow the images to be mounted and files/folders extracted, so it's a full backup as well as supporting partition/disk restoration.
You need the boot disk and external storage media e.g. a large USB disk, or sthg via a LAN.
One thing worth doing is using MS's disk management to allocate a drive letter to the external USB disk, if used, so the path to the backup is consistent each time that disk is plugged in.
I also use System Restore, and one of Brink's scripts scheduled to create a daily restore point.
I have heard people say that AOMEI just doesn't compare with Macrium in terms of speed. Your thoughts?
So the Freeware AOMEI supports incremental backups and restores? Because the freeware Macrium does not