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Hi there. Im going to do this soon. So you recommend me use macrium reflect or Aomei?
Also i can use the free version for either right? So Aoemi is easier to use? Helmut says the macrium reflect is much more complicated.
Okay so whichever program i use, i do the backup image and basically i wait and let it do its things when my external hard drive is connected to it right? So if i do that one process... i no longer need to copy and paste files and documents manually like i would when i drag them from my computer to the external hard drive?
Now has anyone had issues with it like an error or something in the process? For example if you do encryption or bios update, i know bios update can go very wrong if something bad happens. But what about when you are copying the image etc?
I have a 1tb external hard drive and that has about 950gb. I think i used up 50gb already. My ssd used up about 210gb at the moment. So when i do this, my entire hard drive so to speak will be on the external hard drive right? Example let say i use a brand new computer and its windows 10. I set it up as is. Or its my same dell xps laptop where i did a complete reinstallation of windows 10 and wiped everything. I set it up. When it goes to desktop, obviously i have no programs there. But when i connect the external hard drive to my computer... then copy the images to it... then... its going to look exactly like how it did not only my desktop screen... but every single program is going to be there such as when i go to start menu and look for all the programs i have there?
Now here is the other thing. My laptop at the moment is encrypted with bitlocker with TPM unlock. It has no bitlocker pin but im planning to put this soon. It does have windows 10 password as well. So there will be no issues at all right now doing this as copying the images to my external hard drive right? And when i connect it to either a new laptop or my same laptop that i wipe and reinstall, there is no issues since the computer is no longer encrypted since well i did a clean reinstall?
The other thing is this. How often do you guys do these backups? Example say you do it today and do the entire process. Now its on your external hard drive. Say a few weeks from now your laptop screws up and you have to reinstall it... well you can only restore it to how it was a few weeks before. So that mean anything you added to your laptop between this period is not added to it. So you should do these backups how often? Once every 2 weeks or month? Now let say it uses up 210gb. Then you do it again in a few weeks. Do you erase the old backup? Since your external hard drive only has 950gb or so, you cant keep putting a few 210gb and 220gb into it right?