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Windows 10 Version/Feature updates are like Windows 7 SP1.Thanks for explaining the types of updates. It helps to know what's expected. It seems as I mentioned above, the biggest complaints are in the Version Update/Feature update category. At least I know what to expect. I think Windows 7 had the monthly/cumulative updates, and then the small ones, of course.
- I use older, limited versions of Acronis TI [free versions]. So I can explain what to do but the UIs will be a bit different. You also have additional capabilities that I do not - for example, you will be able to choose folders for an image but I cannot and I know nothing about this topic [I can only choose whole partitions/drives].I have Acronis True Image 2020 now, but I have no idea on how to do it or if I should put it on their site (I have a subscription that allows 250 GB of storage) or my external drive. I've never done that before. I'm willing to learn, however, and I would prefer to do it if I can figure out how to do it. How involved is it as my libraries are pointed to my external drive? Does the system image include that or just the Windows system? Could you help walk me through that as we have the same program?
- I use system images just for my OS drive. My own files are backed up by other means [straightforward file copies]. Both my system images and my own file backups are on external drives.
- My user folders [Document, Music, ...] are 'relocated' to a separate drive within my computer. If yours are not [i.e. if they are all within C:\Users\%UserName%\Documents etc] then they get included within the system image and they can make it very large.
- Your reference to your "libraries" might mean different things. Do you mean external drives that you have set up for convenient access by using libraries {i.e. you used the term "libraries" correctly} or do you mean user folders?
- - Please post a screenshot of your libraries.
- - I might also need to see a screenshot of a Registry key to understand your setup - HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders
- I do not suggest saving system images in the cloud unless you, 1 trust the privacy & security they provide, and, 2 are happy to have that amount of data tying up your internet connection.
Your Acronis TI Help tells you how to use it. You will have a page equivalent to this one.
You click on the Disks & partitions symbol to choose what you want to image,
you click on Select destination to set up where on your external drives you want to save the image,
you click on the Backup now button to make the image.
That's all folks.
You must also make & test an Acronis boot disk.
Acronis True Image 2020: how to create bootable media
This is what you will boot your computer from to restore a system image.
- Image restoration overwrites the whole of the target disk/partition. So anything new on it will be lost.
- This is why it is worth splitting off your own files ['relocating' them] onto another disk/partition within your computer because you are not going to make a new system image every time you write a ketter.
You will also have an Acronis TI user guide installed along with the software or available on their website. Their 'KnowledgeBase' also has explanatory articles.
Acronis True Image 2020 KnowledgeBase
Acronis TI 2020 user forum
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Last edited by Try3; 21 Jan 2020 at 02:43.
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