Technical Level: IntermediateSummarySince Windows Vista Microsoft included a system imaging utility that makes it easy to backup your entire computer, which you can then use to restore in case of system failure, move to a larger hard disk or simply to have a working state of your computerjust in case. As noted, a system image is an exact replica of your hard disk, down to the partition layout.
Depending on how large your Windows 10 installation is, it can use a lot of space, so you should invest in an external USB hard disk with a lot of space.In this article, we take a look restoring the system image on a larger hard disk. This makes it quite convenient if you somehow outgrow your current storage allotment.DetailsFirst, check out the following article how to create a system image.Once you have your backup ready, you can proceed to shutdown the system, install your hard disk or restart and boot from the recovery drive or Windows 10 bootable media. Yes, Metalman007, this is one of the MANY problems with Windows 10! If you have since found a solution please post it.I for one would really appreciate it.
K, -diskimagedevice RESTOREDEVICE When restoring, restore to RESTOREDEVICE (eg /dev/disk0s4) instead of an image. Requires -r option.n, -licensekey PREFERENCEPATH Path to Winclone preference that contains a license key.
I always seem to forget this deficiency in Win 10 (worked find in 7 and I believe 8) until Igo to upgrade to a larger drive. I ran into it in the pre-release version and I foolishly thought Microsoft might actually address the issue but alas they did not. Even if you install to a drive and make C only part of the total drive it still puts the recoverypartition at the end of C so you can't even expand on the same disk thanks to that very poor design logic. Ah yes,I was reading along and thinking 'didn't I already try this and was unable to expand/extend my partition?'
.I was eventually able to reformat my new larger drive (1 TB) by using diskpart to delete partitions. I was about to have another go at transferring my full 500 GB drive to the 1 TB using Acronis with both drives plugged into SATA ports on a desktop. Unfortunately,I let chkdisk run on the 500 GB and it is basically ruined now with 'file or directory is corrupted or unavailable'.I'm hoping I still have the image file.
Hi everybody!Just to start I have to say that I’m a deprived widower of Rescue & Recovery, the wonderful former IBM (then until Windows 7, Lenovo) program that saved me a lot of times with its incremental backup/restore functions.Now, in Windows 10 that program is no more supported, and I asked many time for a valid substitute. Microsoft and also Lenovo, answered that the need of R&R is completely overcome by the standard Windows 10 Backup and restorefunctions.Thus I used the standard functions making regularly both system images and file backups.Then all OK?Unfortunately not!The first time I needed a restore because of a Hard Drive Crash, I started the image restore with the last copy available. The re-imaging started perfectly and I started breathing regularly, while the restore went up forabout one hour and a half.But unfortunately I discovered at the end of the restore that it was unsuccessful due to an incorrect parameter; error 0x80070057; no other comment from the procedure.There are many advices on the InterNet, quite common among the users, none of them worked. Luckily informatics is my job and after a week I solved, but a “normal” user?Now a backup/restore like that is as a parachute full of holes, or a lifebuoy made of lead. Horrid!I’ll look for something better, like Acronis AOMEI or something else, but Microsoft can be charged for refunds, being responsible of such a disgusting functionality.Waiting anxiously for some answer and adviceYoursDr. Alberto Maria Marchetti. That is all fine and wonderful, but my image restored with a 450MB recovery partition between my primary partition and my unallocated space.
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I've got Windows 7 x64 Ultimate installed on my Crucial C300 SSD in the OptiBay drive and have backed up the image using WinClone prior to updating the SSD firmware. When checking the WinClone forums I noted that users have reported they were unable to restore their Boot Camp images to an SSD via WinClone. Some have even bricked their drives and have had to have them replaced.Has anyone had success with the latest version or should I avoid restoring my WinClone image and perform a clean installation from scratch? I'm not entirely sure why 'winclone' is primitive if it simply cuts out the entire Windows partition and puts it back.
I of course do not profess to know how it works, so I will leave it at that.Anyways, I have an ssd in my MBA and I've used Winclone several times, especially when I got infected with something annoying in Win 7 and it takes about 1 hour or so to get everything up and running again.I don't think winclone malfunctions with SSDs per se, it might be that brand of SSD, but as far as I know, there are no issues with my SSD and WinClone. Well, someone on the WinClone forums claimed he ruined his SSD trying to restore a WinClone image, so I haven't had the heart to try it myself.I went ahead and purchased StorageCraft's ShadowProtect (thanks for the tip!) and will give it a try. Since my MacBook Pro is also my work machine, I need to have a reliable Windows 7 system complete with the MS Office Suite and can't afford to lose a day or two with reinstalls if anything should go wrong. Luckily, with my configuration all the necessary documents are stored on the Mac OS X hard drive, so a reinstallation of the SSD only includes the operating system and essential programs. But I agree that backup & restore capability is essential for our main systems. Well, I've tried to restore my Windows 7 x64 image with ShadowProtect and have failed on three separate attempts.- The first attempt was following a backup to my Mac OS X HDD from the Windows 7 SSD to take advantage of the high data transfer rate, but the boot disk didn't recognize the HFS drive and thus I didn't have the option to restore from that image.- I then copied the image to a USB HDD (NTFS format) and tried again, but the restore failed within seconds so I was forced to perform another clean installation of Windows. Following this clean installation I again created a backup image directly to the USB NTFS HDD.- The third attempt from the newly-created image on the USB HDD also failed within seconds.This is kind of frustrating, since I used to perform restorations on my Windows laptop using Norton Ghost all the time without incident.