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Why does system image backup of C drive fail in Windows 10 Pro?
I regularly take backup of my computer by creating system image of the C drive. I do so by going to Control Panel\System and Security\Backup and Restore and clicking the "Create a system image&...
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USB disk drive fails after sleep, but only some folders
I have a Seagate Backup Plus Drive connected via USB to my Windows 10 computer. I use it to save my backup files from Macrium home. After my computer has been in sleep mode and then restarted, I find ...
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There's any way to know what backups and or disk images Windows have?
I want to know from what dates are backups availables.
If I remember well with Windows 7 you can see the dates from where you can revert the PC to a know state. I can't find that in Windows 10 21H1
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Using Windows 10, how to "sync" documents, pictures, videos... folders with USB drive backup?
I have a backup of the documents, pictures and videos folders on a large external USB drive which took many hours to create. - Hey, even cloud services can lose files, as I found out to my cost 😏
I ...
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Symlink vs Hardlink and Backing up Win10
I have the following use case and am struggling to decide whether to use hard links or symlinks. I store e-books in a "Books" folder on my Win 10 Laptop.
However I have a directory structure ...
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Why does Macrium Reflect Free add another Recovery partition when I restore a system image backup?
I am using Macrium Relect Free to make backups of my computer.
I used it to make a system image backup of Windows 10 on an SSD. To test I booted into the Macrium Rescue media USB key and restored the ...
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How to block Users for backup?
I have Windows 10.
I'm using "iDrive" to backup 600GB to an external hard drive (4TB) using USB 2.0.
Last time estimate it gave me was over 24 hours.
I need to block all my family (3 other ...
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Are forensic USB write blockers OK to use during data backup? (On Windows 10)
I've long been looking for a way to write protect one USB drive, while backing it up to another USB drive. And also to be able to mount USB drives as read-only to be confident of their contents ...
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Do you need to have sufficient space on a hard drive to mount a disk image (backup)?
So I just backed up two drives onto a single backup drive. I used AOMEI's Backupper. I backed up a 1tb drive (basically fully filled) no problem, and could mount the image and explore it's files. I ...
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Where does Windows 10 store backups? Can backups delete other data?
I have 2 HDDs in my computer, D: (2TB) and F: (256GB). F: stores all my personal data which I want to back up to D:, just in case. Using the windows 10 backup, I specify that F: should be backed up to ...
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Non-system HDD, Windows 10 is freezing, not responding and slow
I have recently built my long waited new PC (specs).
But I have made a very bad decision and bought Seagate 4TB HDD, which I found out was SMR drive. It is really slow and it takes ages to write ...
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Can't boot to Windows 10 with another broken Windows 10 drive installed
I'm currently trying to recover the hard drive of the laptop of a family member. The drive apparently stopped working but still shows a lot of vital signs.
The broken drive still boots into Windows; ...
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Trying to backup a corrupted dynamic hdd
I think one of my drives is starting to fail.
Sometimes it becomes unavailable all of sudden, and when I try to access files on that specific drive, File Explorer tells me it's an invalid path.
Ran ...
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Why I cannot restore system image onto new hard drive?
I have create system recovery image via Steps> Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Back up and Restore (Windows 7). I actually selected all partitions on the HDD. I then replaced my 1TB HDD with ...
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instantaneous backup to external drive
I have an external hard drive, and I want to use it as a backup drive. So my question is "how to update a backup folder when the original folder gets updated?", I'm talking about an instant backup. As ...
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