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DustyDisks · 06-06-2015, 03:34 PM

For they that want to preserve their present installation of windows if going the rout of upgrading to win 10. I have found a free imaging tool that is quick and easy to learn, to use, and works

http://download.cnet.com/Macrium-Ref...#editorsreview

Have tried other programs, been using the windows built in backup/image/restore with little luck, seems that they always wanted to fail just when I really needed them. So I had to start with my recovery to factory disks and rebuild from that point because all of my windows disks were phooey, seems the windows programs are hit and miss, with more misses.

Been messing with computers for over 30 years and this old fart in training is used to hardware failing or shooting oneself in the foot making mistakes and then being forced to reinstall everything.

So when the drive failed, I looked for another imaging program and found this one. All the others I have tried were so loaded with features that they were confusing to use.

I wanted a Timex simple way to image that did not take one year plus a day to do the job, unlike the windows built in system that may or not fail, and not a swiss watch.

Besides it is free, and tested by me as I made mistakes rebuilding my software to get where I wanted to be with the major mistakes that happen. (Shooting oneself in the foot !) So I had to use this program to recover and learn from mistakes (Several times this go around) and relearning again what I used to know, growing old does that to some.

Just a suggestion that may help someone here to get their system back exactly the way it was before upgrading and do not care about backing up anything because this is a total snapshot of everything on their hard drive/system.

Charles

Note:

You have to have an external drive or separate drive to do an image or backup to, plus a working recovery cd or dvd disk and burner that the program will need to make the boot disk that will run the recovery program, which is not the same as the windows recovery disk that is common.

06-06-2015, 03:34 PM	#746
DustyDisks Old Fart In Training Posts: 534 Karma: 2742476 Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: Gladewater, Texas Device: K3+3g/KFHD 7"/Nexus 7/Nexus 7.2	For they that want to preserve their present installation of windows if going the rout of upgrading to win 10. I have found a free imaging tool that is quick and easy to learn, to use, and works http://download.cnet.com/Macrium-Ref...#editorsreview Have tried other programs, been using the windows built in backup/image/restore with little luck, seems that they always wanted to fail just when I really needed them. So I had to start with my recovery to factory disks and rebuild from that point because all of my windows disks were phooey, seems the windows programs are hit and miss, with more misses. Been messing with computers for over 30 years and this old fart in training is used to hardware failing or shooting oneself in the foot making mistakes and then being forced to reinstall everything. So when the drive failed, I looked for another imaging program and found this one. All the others I have tried were so loaded with features that they were confusing to use. I wanted a Timex simple way to image that did not take one year plus a day to do the job, unlike the windows built in system that may or not fail, and not a swiss watch. Besides it is free, and tested by me as I made mistakes rebuilding my software to get where I wanted to be with the major mistakes that happen. (Shooting oneself in the foot !) So I had to use this program to recover and learn from mistakes (Several times this go around) and relearning again what I used to know, growing old does that to some. Just a suggestion that may help someone here to get their system back exactly the way it was before upgrading and do not care about backing up anything because this is a total snapshot of everything on their hard drive/system. Charles Note: You have to have an external drive or separate drive to do an image or backup to, plus a working recovery cd or dvd disk and burner that the program will need to make the boot disk that will run the recovery program, which is not the same as the windows recovery disk that is common. Last edited by DustyDisks; 06-06-2015 at 04:56 PM.