Microsoft gives you the ability to create a comprehensive backup of your entire computer in Windows 10. You just have to do a little digging to find it. If you were to ask the average person what ...

Sam McCurry wisely created an image backup of his internal drive. Now he wants to know how that backup can help him should Windows fail to boot. An image backup copies the complete contents of your ...

With ransomware attacks dominating the headlines, the need for safe and reliable data backups is more evident than ever. All businesses fear losing their data — or access to their data. In a ...

The advantage of a system image is that, if a hard drive crashes, you can replace it, restore the image, and have your system right back to where it was when the image was captured. No need to ...

If you are using a System Image that has been created by Windows Backup and Restore Tool, and using it restore your computer and you receive an error message ...

PowerShell recovery scripts using WBAdmin no longer work in Windows 11, but VHDX mounting offers a manual workaround for restoring files. I recently wrote an article in which I walked you through the ...

Some readers said a recent column about backing up a PC hard drive wasn’t as complete as it needed to be. I was asked whether programs and data could be backed up to an external hard drive, then ...

Creating a Windows system image can be a very useful way to back up your system and a good way to migrate to a new storage drive. Ed Rhee, a freelance writer based in the San Francisco Bay Area, is an ...

Windows 8 and 10 have ‘File History backup’, which can be found in Settings > Update & Security > Backup on a Windows computer. Once you’ve got your backup from your Windows PC, you’ll be able to ...

It seems that my latest install of Windows 11 Pro has the 97% completion bug when performing a native image or windows backup from within the old control panel options. I’ve tried the list of remedies ...

How do you recover from a dead internal hard drive or SSD? Or if Windows becomes so messed up it’s useless or even unbootable? You can always reinstall Windows from ...