Restoring an Image Using EaseUS Todo

[@askleonotenboom]

How to use the safety net of your image backup.

[@markkulyas2418]

When you watch these easy to do videos and see how simple it is, then you read the comment section below of all the people who had massive problems and failures making it work. Makes you really leery because that's what usually happens to me, always a problem that isn't shown on the video😢

[@Existentialist946]

The video is completely opaque.

[@jasperburchfield2028]

Thanks for the great info. I'm so glad to be free of Acronis True Image.

[@RonOnThePond]

Leo, first, thank you for your great videos. Clear, concise, and complete, with good A/V production technique. For this one, the comments have me concerned. Can you put to rest the question of whether the method described in this video will work with UEFI systems, leaving me with a bootable drive C, or whether additional recovery steps are needed, as indicated in several comments? I want to rely on EaseUS, and your step-by-step worked as expected, but the comments have left me UNEasy. Thanks!

[@askleonotenboom]

It should work, yes.

[@RonOnThePond]

@@askleonotenboom Thank you for your quick reassurance. I am still left wondering what the others have done wrong. If you have a guess about that so I can avoid their mistake, I'd appreciate it. There seem to be several in the same boat.

[@davibelo]

thanks leo!

[@hassanmaje5849]

Do you do this when changing to a new machine with latest Windows and other stuff preloaded or in that case do you just copy files from old PC after setting up new PC with Microsoft account? In what situations do you use image backup to restore?

[@askleonotenboom]

Image restores are perfect for hard drive failures, and removing malware. Remember, a restore erases EVERYTHING currently on the machine as it restores.

[@cevgemv]

Hi; My question is: Do I have to use two (2) pendrives to accomplish the restore ? One pendrive for booting and a second pendrive where I put the backup file ? Thanks.

[@askleonotenboom]

Yes and no. I recommend a pendrive (more commonly called a USB Flash Drive or USB stick) to boot from, and a traditional external USB hard drive to contain your backup images/

[@my-smalltowns]

Hi Leo I just made a backup with EaseUS and wanted to ask you... Since all new laptops have a partition to factory reset. Is this part also included in the EaseUS backup? Thanks

[@askleonotenboom]

If you backup the entire disk, yes. If you backup only a partition, then probably not. Hence I recommend full disk always.

[@doniel2008]

Thanks for the tutorial! I have a quick question -- is what you covered in this video available in the free version of EaseUS Todo or we have to get the paid version?

[@askleonotenboom]

Should be available in free.

[@doniel2008]

@@askleonotenboom Thank you!

[@bainmeister1]

***** READ THIS BEFORE BACKING UP***** If you read the comments , and I had the same situation, the back up did not work!! Well it did and it didnt. Most newer computers have the uefi system. When installing windows, windows creates these other small partitions and one of these is the efi boot loader. I had done multiple backups and for some reason when i checked off the box for the entire drive, the todo system did not see or for some reason did not back up the efi boot loader files. The end result is that when you restore, it wipes everything off and restores what it backed up. In my case, since the boot loader partition was gone, my bios would not even give me the option for the hard drive any longer, it just wasnt therre to boot to. If you are backing up the files, make sure that one of the hard drive partitions on that particular drive is around 100mb. This is likely the uefi boot loader partition. There may also be a 16 mb partition, but to be honest , I dont know what is in those folders. If you so the boot loader partition or one that is around 100mb, then you are golden. If you dont see it, wait for it to pop up, refresh, close program, etc, whatever you need to do, but dont perform the backup without also backing up the boot loader. IF YOU BACKED UP AND DID NOT HAVE THE PARTITION, YOU ARE PROBABLY WONDERING WHY YOUR HARD DRIVE IS MISSING FROM THE BIOS BOOT MENU. In my case, i fixed it. First, i loaded a copy of windows onto another drive just to get the computer up. then i loaded up disk management (or search for "create and format partitions). Using this program i did a shrink volume and made a seperate 100 mb partition on this drive. Then i followed the instructions on either of these 2 videos (which was a little intimidiating so i watched several times) and the problem was fixed. Actually the first time i just let everytign restart adn it still didnt start but as it turns out , after perfoming these few steps to remake the uefi boot loader files, you have to shut down the computer. then upon restarting , everyhting should be fine. Watch kzbin.info/www/bejne/eYuUaH2onKt5ntksi=gEeOwMNMVUAR_oX- and kzbin.info/www/bejne/joiYen-qiJuWo7Msi=kILvyHihAqug7OIN

[@acreguy3156]

Leo, when you do your restart with the EaseUS disk, is the boot sequence initiated based on the BIOS settings? That is, first drive, second drive, and so on? We want the EaseUS backup program to boot first. Thanks!

[@MikaelKKarlsson]

The BIOS boot settings always decide the boot order.

[@acreguy3156]

@@MikaelKKarlsson Thanks, Mikael 👍.

[@NoEgg4u]

Good, helpful video.

[@Rickydbaby]

I bought a new hard drive and wanted to simulate a hard drive complete failure situation and see if i could restore withe my easeus todo. i installed the new hard drive and ran the emergency disk. i restored to the new hard drive but sadly windows will not boot. what am i missing this is the entire reason i bought easeus todo. do i have to install windows onto this new hard drive first and then run easeus todo? seems like a very nuiance extra step.

[@walterantonello8371]

Great video thanks. That is for the full backup file, but how are the incremental files used ?

[@askleonotenboom]

Basically the same way. Choose the appropriate file for the date you want to restore to, and the backup program will use the most recent full + all the incrementals it needs to get there.

[@AP-ps7ke]

​@@askleonotenboomSo, choose the most recent full backup, and, the subsequent smaller files that were backed up after that fullbackup, correct?

[@askleonotenboom]

@@AP-ps7ke Not quite. Pick the day you want to restore to (usually the most recent). Pick the backup from that day. Whether it's full or incremental, doesn't affect your choice. The backup software will then use that, the previous full, and any intervening incrementals, to restore your machine.

[@AP-ps7ke]

@@askleonotenboom Thank you so much! I still have one quick question...In that case is it ok to delete (to save space on my external drive) old backups except the most recent full back up and updated incremental small backups after that?

[@askleonotenboom]

@@AP-ps7ke Yes, however I like to keep two sets. So I would keep: full - all incrementals until next - full - all incrementals thereafter

[@hiraeth7361]

Hello , I followed exactly the same as your video but when I reach the part "Recover to" it seems like EaseUs cannot detect my system disk which is my C: drive (when I tried to boot from WinPe) But when I dont use it that way it says my drive is occupied and i have to delete all the partitions on my C: drive and I did but still cannot fix the problem.

[@BruceLR57]

Do you have any concerns about the Chinese source of this program? E.g. any code that may be placed on your machine. I have moved over to Macrium Reflect instead.

[@askleonotenboom]

I'm happy with it, but I understand not everyone is. Hence, my other recommendation. (Macrium is based in the UK.)

[@kersi-sandiego6036]

You are not alone on the caution that you raise. I use Macrium Reflect for just the reason you state. Your point is important and needed to be given more "airtime". Thank you.

[@lukasbruderlin2723]

If someone is spying on us for sure - it is Microsoft! Everyone knows but only little complain about it. I have just recently used Wireshark to analyse a brand fresh install of each MS 10 and 11 - and it is amazing how much MS collects and communicates to their servers all in the background - even with the strongest data protection settings!

[@tungchen05]

My laptop's hard drive is encrypted with BitLocker enable. Will the EaseUS's WinPE emergency disk be able to unlock the encryption by asking to enter the encryption recovery key to unlock the encryption? Otherwise the encrypted disk is locked and is invisible. There is no target disk available to select in restore processing since it is locked and invisible.

[@splizzex]

I followed the instructions but after closing easeus and rebooting my machine windows tries to diagnose my PC and states it couldn't repair my PC. I'm having a bit of a panic attack right now. Please help! I can't fathom losing all of my data.

[@arungp]

Same problem here.....After recovering image, the laptop gone into...diagnosing your pc.......couldn't diagnose anything.......it further suggests to SHUT DOWN THE PC

[@splizzex]

​@@arungpI fixed the issue by following the instructions on a microsoft thread which I will link you in my next message let me know if it doesn't show up because KZbin likes to hide messages that contain links. Apparently the problem was that I only backed up the C: partition of the disk rather than the entire disk itself. After overwriting my newer C: partition with my backed up C: partition image something must've broke in my UEFI partition which is where the windows boot files are located. The microsoft thread instructed me to run some commands in order to rename my UEFI partition to V: and then it instructs you to run a command to reinstall the windows boot files on the newly renamed V: partition. After I ran the command I got the response "Windows boot files have been created on the partition." and I was able to boot with the newly installed windows. The only issue left after that was that I had two Windows operating systems installed, one of them the faulty one and the other the working one I newly created. Whenever I start my PC I'd be asked which Windows I want to run and choosing the old faulty one would result in being greeted with the "Diagnosing your PC" screen. Having two Windows operating systems on your machine is called "dual booting" and it's super easy to just remove the old faulty windows OS.

[@bainmeister1]

Same issue, it appears that my bios won’t see or recognize my hard drive once i did the restore. It does show the hard drive in my (msi) system status, but is not an option in my boot order. It sucks because MSI and Easus are not open on the weekends . Spent about 6 hours while searching the internet and still coming up empty. If I can find a solution , I’ll come back here to post. Ps. I did load a windows disk and get to a command prompt and was able to determine that a drive letter was assigned to the restore drive . Also tried Secure Erase+ Also tried reloading windows and this works, but it defeats having a backup as I don’t want to spend all day reloading all my software all over again I reloaded windows and also tried restoring c: without restoring the fat 32 portion of the UEFI, no good either

[@bainmeister1]

*** READ THIS BEFORE BACKING UP*** If you read the comments , and I had the same situation, the back up did not work!! Well it did and it didnt. Most newer computers have the uefi system. When installing windows, windows creates these other small partitions and one of these is the efi boot loader. I had done multiple backups and for some reason when i checked off the box for the entire drive, the todo system did not see or for some reason did not back up the efi boot loader files. The end result is that when you restore, it wipes everything off and restores what it backed up. In my case, since the boot loader partition was gone, my bios would not even give me the option for the hard drive any longer, it just wasnt therre to boot to. If you are backing up the files, make sure that one of the hard drive partitions on that particular drive is around 100mb. This is likely the uefi boot loader partition. There may also be a 16 mb partition, but to be honest , I dont know what is in those folders. If you see the boot loader partition or one that is around 100mb, then you are golden. If you dont see it, wait for it to pop up, refresh, close program, etc, whatever you need to do, but dont perform the backup without also backing up the boot loader. IF YOU BACKED UP AND DID NOT HAVE THE PARTITION, YOU ARE PROBABLY WONDERING WHY YOUR HARD DRIVE IS MISSING FROM THE BIOS BOOT MENU. In my case, i fixed it. First, i loaded a copy of windows onto another drive just to get the computer up. then i loaded up disk management (or search for "create and format partitions). Using this program i did a shrink volume and made a seperate 100 mb partition on this drive. Then i followed the instructions on either of these 2 videos (which was a little intimidiating so i watched several times) and the problem was fixed. Actually the first time i just let everytign restart and it still didnt start; but as it turns out , after perfoming these few steps to remake the uefi boot loader files, you have to shut down the computer. then upon restarting , everything should be fine. Watch kzbin.info/www/bejne/eYuUaH2onKt5ntksi=gEeOwMNMVUAR_oX- and kzbin.info/www/bejne/joiYen-qiJuWo7Msi=kILvyHihAqug7OIN

[@xgui4-studios]

do secure boot need to be disabled ????

[@askleonotenboom]

Shouldn't need to be.

[@shenkevin8349]

hi sir i have a backup image in 2019 in my usb,but after im using the clean install can I use the backup image again?

[@askleonotenboom]

You can extract files from it if you like. Not sure what else you'd want to use it for.

[@shenkevin8349]

thankyou for the reply,i want to recover all my apps install in 2019 is it possible using the backup image?@@askleonotenboom

[@askleonotenboom]

@@shenkevin8349 If the app originally required a setup program, then likely not.

[@shenkevin8349]

@@askleonotenboomthankyou so most of them i can only recover files?

[@garyengelman7867]

Why / How did it get the name “C” ?

[@mr.boniato6402]

How do I create an Easeus emergency disc? This is the part I am very confused about.

[@askleonotenboom]

Right here: askleo.com/creating-easeus-todo-emergency-disk/

[@Existentialist946]

I have no understanding of this at all. What is supposed to be on the "emergency disc"? The image with a pbd file extension? That's all I've got. Well, I have windows 10 on usb too. This is far too complex. I think I'm just going to have to format the drive and start from scratch.

[@SusanLeeson]

how do you do this when windows wont boot

[@askleonotenboom]

Watch the video. You boot from EaseUS emergency disk.

[@Existentialist946]

@@askleonotenboom Why is this emergency disc required? Will this EaseUS not restore an image from within windows??

[@askleonotenboom]

@@Existentialist946 You cannot restore the operating system while the operating system is running. You do need to boot from an emergency disk. You can restore individual files from an image without needing it, though.

[@Existentialist946]

@@askleonotenboom "System Restore" does. Of course it does switch off and reboot. I imagined a similar process.

[@kersi-sandiego6036]

EaseUS Todo = good product. However, keep your helmet and armor nearby. You will be bombarded with their emails.

[@askleonotenboom]

In my experience their unsubscribe works just fine.