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Set Up Windows 10/11 File History Backup to an External Drive (and Restore Versions) Difficulty: Beginner | Time Required: 15 minutes File History is one of the easiest ways to protect your personal files in Windows. Instead of creating a one-time “snapshot,” it continuously saves copies...

Create an Automated System Image Backup to External Drive with Macrium Reflect Free Difficulty: Intermediate | Time Required: 30-45 minutes Backing up your entire Windows system as an image is one of the best ways to protect yourself from hardware failure, malware, or a bad update. Macrium...

I have a Laptop lenovo Win 10; I always do an Image backup of the System with an external Toshiba HD via USB. The Image I do it using the Win 10 Control Panel (Back up and restore Windows 7) Just today I had a problem with Outlook and decided to restore my last image of few days back as I...

Set Up File History Backups to Protect Personal Files (Windows 10/11) Difficulty: Beginner | Time Required: 15 minutes Windows File History is a simple built-in way to protect your personal files by keeping copies of versions of documents, photos, and other important data. If your PC’s drive...

Windows still includes a built‑in backup utility that many users overlook, and while it’s not the slick, cloud‑first tool Microsoft pushes today, it remains a practical way to create scheduled local backups and full system images—if you understand its limits and use it carefully. ows...

Microsoft's recent promotional video for Windows 11 has brought to light a potential hidden cost associated with the upgrade from Windows 10. While the upgrade itself is free, the data migration process may necessitate a Microsoft subscription for users with more than 5GB of data. The Hidden...

Automating backups of important files to an external drive is a task every Windows 11 user should master to avoid the pain and disruption of data loss. With ransomware attacks, drive failures, or the all-too-common accidental deletion always lurking as threats, implementing a robust, automated...

I recently recovered a deleted video file. I'm attempting to move it to my backup drive but the following message appeared (attachment included). I don't recall ever having this issue in the past so I'm not sure what I need to do to fix it. Any help will be appreciated. Thank you.

I have got v7.2 installed on my machine. All updates for win 7 are installed. Macrium reflect has performed beautifully up until now... Knowing that my machine is getting a little long in the tooth relative to USB performance, I installed a PCIe USB3 card from StarTech. After installation was...

Windows 10 Enterprise 2016 I tried to restore to a previously 'created restore point' but it failed (System restore error 0x80070091). Because I had an Audio Driver issue... Meantime I fixed my audio card driver problem (reinstall)... But immediately two irrelevant things are screwed up now...

I have a Seagate Backup Plus 8TB Desktop USB External Hard Drive on my Win 7 ASUS G73S laptop . It works well , just for one problem . If I don't access a directory on it for a few minutes , then when I do , the file display can take quite a while to come up , while I get a slow advancing green...

I've recently got a new computer without an OS, I bought a windows 7 disc, install went fine but I've got a problem, I can't update. When ever I try the update windows it just keeps checking for updates, the OS is Windows 7 Premium 64bit SP1. I've tried updating the update agent. Tried...

Hi. I've had no luck in Win10 forum so I'm asking here as the answer is probably the same... File History does not backup Desktop or any files on Desktop. Can somebody suggest why this should be? I have turned File History off, turned it back on, reset the backup drive and the only folder to...

Hello! I recently recieved a hand-me-down laptop from my Uncle after it was restored to factory settings. Basically I have a 270gb main HDD, and a 400gb HDD. The second HDD is (presumably) used for restoration, and I'd like to use it for games and movies. This is what is currently on the drive...

I have created and stored a system image using the Windows 7 imaging capability and successfully restored a disk several times. They state that older images will be deleted once you use 30% of the backup disk space. Has anyone seen that 30% figure in practice? I have never seen more than one...

Hello all I'm new to this so please bear with me and have a little patience. I'm trying to figure out how to make a bootable image of my C: drive with all the apps I have installed on it. I'm so tired of formatting and re-installing win 7 and my apps. So is it possible to make an ISO image of...

[SOLVED!] SYSTEM_SERVICE_EXCEPTION caused by ntoskrnl.exe - System is boot looping Hey BSOD wizards, I have a Windows Home Server 2011 system that just recently started BSOD boot looping as a result of something relating to the kernel (ntoskrnl.exe) which sucks because I know that kernel BSODs...

Hi I decided that I should, create a System Recovery DVD for my new computer. However when I try and do it I only get the option to create a recovery USB Drive. I did that but I'd still like to make a DVD disk. Anyone know how you do this? Ps. I see that my system recovery USB drive has an...

Hi all, My fiance has a Dell Inspiron 15" laptop with Windows Vista Home Premium currently on it. She got a trojan (heur.html.maliframe) and instead of trying to go through the hassle of removing it, I thought it'd be a good time to wipe the HDD and go to Windows 7. My questions are: 1. I...

"External hard drive can not find system image" Windows 7, 64 bit. I need to restore my computer from the system image made with windows 7 backup on my external hard drive (WD). When I go through the process I get the message "can not find system image" and I am given the options to install...