Someone is missing something!
When you do a backup, from within Windows, what do you do when the main HD crashes and cannot boot up the PC or even be accessed?
Having set up backup systems for Corporations, Banks, business offices and Home Computers, for the past 30+ years, I've developed some simple rules.
1. Make a full C: drive backup at least once a week.
2. The Backup/Restore program must be on some removable media, capable of booting the system and running the Backup/Restore program.
3. The backup image file must NOT be on the main hard drive, but should be on an external media, either an external Hard Drive or DVD's.
If your Backup scenario does not meet these three simple rules, maybe you should re-think your backup strategy.
This can easily be done, with Acronis True Image, Macrium Reflect, Todo Backup or Ghost.
I never trust Windows to back up Windows. That's too much like the fox guarding the hen-house.
I still use Ghost 11.5, the last DOS based version, which I run from a Bootable CD or Flash Drive.
It backs up every OS from Win-98 to Win-10 and even Linux, or so I've been told. (I don't use Linux)
I've already backed up my install of Win-10, just in case.......
By posting this, It's my hope that this will help someone, somewhere, someday, to do safe backups. Eh?