Windows 10 Backup: How To Restore Your System Image On A New Drive

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[@gwick55]

You are so clear and direct in your explanation of the process of completing this procedure. Thank you---job well done!

[@TheSlacker64]

Dude!! Your 5 minute explanation is better then Microsoft and anything else I found on the web. Thanks!!

[@mariyastoyanova31]

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[@emericdion]

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[@xMomoxpopx]

Thank you so very much! This was so very clear and to the point, and it only took the evening for me to get things up and running again. The last time I ran into a similar issue, it took over a month to resolve between working with customer service and sending my computer back and forth for repairs. I'm unbelievably grateful for this ^ ^!

[@timothy2830]

Thank YOU! didn't know I could just do it from that installation disk. saves me so much time where I don't have to reinstall EVERYTHING... wow, thank you thank you thank you for making the information available in this format!

[@ashishnegi9602]

Hey Man. You made my day. I had been working on how to create a system image for my company so that I can deploy the image on the other laptops on a USB not on the network. This seems to have worked and installed all the software with relevant licenses, domain etc. I had to research a bit on the Windows system repair disc as the Windows 10 that I use for other laptops did not work but when I created the image from the original laptop it worked on the second one. Thanks a lot

[@Badassblacksmith]

Thanks for all the help! Just installed a 970 PRO with the windows drive and almost had a panic attack. After re-installing the original SSD and getting everything I needed, I was good to go. I had no troubles after following all your steps and I now up and running again. Thanks so much for all the help!!!

[@thomasyoung1685]

Why....Why can't everyone make things easy and helpful like you...Thanks man was looking all over for a walk though like this one.

[@meangreen5246]

Excellent video. Straight and to the point. I followed the directions step by step, and the process went through without a hitch. Thanks!

[@shiningforce2201]

Bro you just saved my entire data, i was in depression but you just saved me, thanks for your miracle video, stay happy and healthy ☺️☺️☺️

[@calebfoerg3896]

Oh my god - there is hope in this world. Followed it step for step and ended a three-day battle of computer nonsense. Thanks Kingsley! You a G!!

[@BadMonkeyPics]

I hate to sound like a repeat, but three years later your video saved me. Hours of researching, forums and much more after having located and replaced my motherboard and doing a ton of other fixes..that didn't. Your information allowed me to get my PC back up and running. The link to the MS tool was what I needed as I had backups and couldn't get it to work for a week. I was on the verge of throwing a great PC (HP Omen) against the wall and purchasing a new one until I found this and was able to load windows onto my new 1tb ssd. Saved me a new PC and although a ton of headaches it's now over.

[@johnrogers7620]

best explanation so far.. cloning software aint got JACK on this tutorial

[@robertosahagun6979]

Thank you very much; simple and clean explanation, I just have made an image of my old SSD m.2 256 to A NVme 1 Tb SSD

[@Thompsongast]

Still relevant today and a great help while upgrading a laptop!

[@Rol9ns]

Exactly what I was looking for! Thank you!

[@jerrypikephoto]

thanks for the help, clarified that i can use my windows install media to reimage a disk/system with a backup

[@MrCeora]

Dynamite video. Clear, concise instructions. Most helpful!

[@kingsley15]

Great, thanks for the motivating comment! :)

[@BILLKUBA]

Props to you mate, your explanation process was terrific!! I'm a fan Good Job! :)

[@groverdome]

Nice one man. I'm a bit of a novice, but you're instructions are nice and clear. Fair play.

[@kingsley15]

Cheers, I'm always happy to help :)

[@masterkyle3]

Nice video, going to do this for the first time tomorrow, creating the image backup and win 10 USB then restoring it to a SSD

[@TBWSport]

I use to use Norton Ghost on floppy (yeah floppy) it was like witch craft.. It didn't seem possible but boy how helpful it was for at least the years floppy disks were a thing. I have been searching for something as simple and as good. This video is that moment. Thank you so much.. I am am sure it has saved many thousands in the time it has been uploaded.. No bloat and waffle just the details needed. Thanks again.

[@buzzingonthemoon]

Great video! Thanks for giving me the idea of installation media, I had no idea that existed

[@VendocuadrosAutoelectronicaMD]

Really great video! Congratulations 🎉 Windows can make you go crazy sometimes but you have cleared the path in 5 mins 🥋👍🏻 Big Thanks 💪🏻

[@0xxhomie981]

This way is still useful for Win11, we could still use the backup and restore from Win7, and also easier with aomei backupper to backup my system which I've used for long time.

[@Bear_Duck]

Thank you! I was having a hard time finding a video for this!

[@ravipeiris4388]

Great video, especially the point about removing your boot media immediately after Windows 10 installation begins to restart. If you don't remove the boot media during the restart, then Windows might boot up from the installation media and start the Windows installation process all over again.

[@rogerervin182]

Just what I have been looking for....thank you!

[@Carlostype]

great info , been looking for this guide

[@emiliotinoco369]

Straight to the point. Much appreciated brother. 😎👍

[@Our1stPlanet]

Excellent, this is how all Videos should be.

[@zac1002]

Thanks for this tutorial! If I want to swap the drive that contains my OS (my C drive) for a new one, do I have to do any specials steps for my PC to still be able to detect my current D drive that I am using??? (I'm assuming i can just image my C drive, boot that onto the new replacement SSD and continue using my extra D drive that I've had a for while without needing to image that one)

[@pg13goatlord]

I know this an older vid, but solid today! Had to do this on new m.2 with Win 11, worked out without needing to reinstall everything. Just started building a new pc this week and move this old m.2 to wife's comp and was wondering how to do it without needing to clone. I didn't know how to use back up image in the past and always had to do fresh restalls just to get going on same system.

[@bobcarpenter3413]

Wow. Perfect!. Thanks, Kingsley.

[@RockyGrenade]

Good video. Although I have a more specific question I have 2 drives backed up, one SSD (Windows 10) and one HDD. I want to restore Windows 10 and the HDD files to the HDD only. How different will the setup be?

[@SuganthanHarmless]

Thank you so much, the explanation was clear.

[@sharathreddy7387]

im replacing my ssd , how should i proceed, also can i place m.2 sata ssd to a nvme slot

[@016632]

what if i want to change the computer can i restore that system image on the new pc if i getting rid of the old one?

[@juyouranfa]

You are a life saver I was looking to backup my system image . the build it image creator is useless it takes more than 2TB to backup windows installed on my 120GB SSD

[@bigdave4934]

Thank you Sir, I was going crazy! Have a great day.

[@gaby4551]

Thanks man You just helped me out

[@krothnetworker]

Hello thanks for the great video. Just to clarify - This keeps all your files and programs right? So essentially you can use this to upgrade to a new Drive?

[@adurgh]

I always thought that a backup with system image on a 2nd drive on the pc is all that's needed, and one can just boot from the that backup. Is the usb installation media always necessary?

[@zero00tolerance]

Hello thanks for the tutorial, my question is.. is it better to do a fresh installation of windows or with system image ? I have not done a fresh installation of windows for the past 2 years now and my computer is showing all kind of problems.. sometimes it freezes up game would crash randomly etc. Recently I just did a software cloning from an old drive to the new SSD drive, however I find that the computer still acting buggy even after the clone, netflix would freeze up just like before. I'm about to do a fresh installation here, but just need some opinions from the expert before im doing it. Thank you

[@lennox3206]

Thank you! Saved me a big headache!

[@shilimkarnv1]

Thanks for video... Like windows image should I make image file of all software installed in pc?

[@moustafahelala2837]

Man, u just saved my life, thank you sooo much

[@mitchell3876]

How do I know what drive the image is being written to? Where do i specify the new drive

[@runiquepro5815]

Hi I currently have a 750 gb hdd. I want to back up all files currently on the hdd and install a 256gb ssd and do a fresh install of windows. Then format the 750gb and add it as my secondary drive. If I do a system image restore will the files go into my ssd and then on to the hdd as my hdd has around 650gb of stuff saved on it and my ssd is only 256gb?

[@jamescc2010]

Can I restore Wins 10 image on Wins XP machine which had Windows 10 installed earlier?

[@charliemedia5111]

I just did the Image off my working Lenovo workstation to try get out of the small BIOS Menu ( in my Lenovo BIOS SCREEN ) as my Laptop s packed with goodys and need to run loads of programs to repair like a USB -Creation or The System Image from this Lenovo Workstation,which is getting better after cutting most out the O-S that's never used then did the Image . I just hope it might bring back my Laptop 430s Lenovo on the dame set-up ''only stuck-in BIOS'' ...CHEERS 10/10 VIDEO HAS HELPED SO MUCH ...TA

[@ansarhussain2250]

I created a system image for only c drive and I just want to format and restore only c drive so what options should I select.

[@faheemvtp]

can i just back up 1 partition image (C and boot partition)and restore to say suppose c drive and keep the rest of partitions not formatted,like an upgrade or reset?

[@blacksmiley24]

do i need to put back up image recovery in the hard drive that i want to use it for my new windows?

[@mrmoinn]

What's the difference between using that program you downloaded and just using the built in system image backup in the control panel (or whatever it was) that you were showing at the beginning of the video?

[@XFuckXDaXSystemX]

Hi, ive run into an issue with this method. i get an error about needing a change the signature of the new drive as soon as it starts recovery. Do you know why this happens? Many thanks

[@kikkasluca]

I just create an image of my laptop, saved in external ssd, connected via USB to my pc but when I try to recovery the pc (same situation of your video at 3:51) the system is not able to find any image, same if I select "select a system image option " it only looks inside the ssd inside the pc and i'm not able to select the external one connected via usb... can u help me?

[@AjaksBeats]

So if I got a new computer pretty much the same one as I had before will I be able to install my system image backup? And you said something about and install media? What’s that

[@Ozturw]

brilliant, saved me a lot of time and hassle

[@garylee9474]

will all my applications be saved into the image as well?

[@felicitybrown368]

Thank you for your tutorial, it's useful to me.

[@felicitybrown368]

and I find aomei is also nice to try

[@sterlingmoore1603]

How did you get this to work?? I'm going from HDD to SSD and keep getting "system image restore failed" error message. Do I need to partition the drive first?

[@billinwilliamston]

You are a life saver!!! Thank you!

[@marykelly1146]

Do you have a video that shows how to select system image in the reimagined your computer and run it.

[@sha_nayam]

I have installed windows 7 in my pc and I have the backup data of my previously installed windows 10 and a recovery boot image.... Can i install windows 10 again?

[@NoStringsAttached88]

How do you change your boot up process?? And this would work if i had a system image and then went and bought a new laptop and wanted to have everything all set up on my new one??

[@tako1907]

Thank you for this . But I have a question can I restore my back up to a new hard disk without a OS ? thanks

[@MichaelHurdleStudio]

Good looking out.

[@kevinesperanza9260]

Hi! I'm planning to move my OS drive to my new SSD. Will this format my current OS Drive?

[@oweneastwood3445]

Does this work the same when your system image covers two initial hard drives (in my case one SSD and one HDD)?

[@AmmarAutoService]

You are awesome and this an awesome explaination

[@sudhansumtripathy]

I have created the disk image and want to install in the new external drive but its not showing the option for other drive, what can I do

[@hintsoftware]

can you please suggest to restore windows 10 image to smaller new drive ?

[@CandyWebDesign]

Is this safe to do for Mac OS boot camp? This won’t delete Mac OS right?

[@FaizanKhan-dz4zy]

thanks man you made my day (Y)

[@gouthamm.n2644]

Should I format new drive to NTFS to install this OS or does it automatically format it to NTFS?

[@EmperorVenn]

Hey man, got a lot of things I'm unfamiliar with, would you mind helping me out? So, I'm soon going to be building a xeon rig with an x99 motherboard, I need to get the files from 2 of my drives from my old computer to the new one, I have one C: drive which is on an m.2 and I want the files from it copied to the new m.2 I have. And also I have an hdd with a lot of files on it that I also want copied to the new one. what do I do? I didn't quite understand how to create a system image backup, and do I have to only do it once? does it backup every drive on a computer with its os? if so what do I do after that? for example the backup is now on the hdd, do i plug it in with the rest of my drives to the new pc and from there follow what you did in the video? will the system backup correctly spread what was on the m.2 drive on the old computer to the m.2 on the new computer and what was on the hdd to the new hdd? and is that going to be it? will everything be fine with the new drives and the previous drive that had the system backup? sorry for bombarding you with questions but its my first time transferring data from drives to drives. thanks for any help in advance! eagerly awaiting your reply :)

[@jaf2854]

Can you use the drive with windows on it as a backup drive as well? Basically can I put a new blank drive in my laptop, connect the one with all my data externally and use a drive with windows on it as a backup drive too? Or should I just buy an sd card for my laptop

[@streamfan6825]

So if my original version was 7 and it was allready installed when I bought computer from Walmart.. I will need to set this up with Windows 7 option ? Is that correct?

[@Doubird28]

hi i had a new hard drive installed on my inspiron laptop. so when i try to install my system image on the new one, i get an error message saying: To restore this computer windows needs to format the drive.... boot it from a windows installation disc or a system repar disc.

[@Sandeepsandy-hz9mm]

How much space need to take the backup for windows 10 OS?

[@Michael-ks2yi]

Just one thing, i backup a system image to say a secondary 1tb drive in my pc, so i can restore it on another completely unknown to the system drive. i remove c, start repair mode through my usb, but where will the system image go and install itself on? i have a 1tb samsung ssd i want to copy my windows to cause of lots of problems ive been having, ill try and hope it automatically installs the iso onto my new ssd.

[@thecartooncynic]

Would this method work on a Windows 10 Bootcamp partition?

[@rex3906]

I know this video is old but i wanted to know if this works with a different motherboard cuz i want to upgrade motherboard but don't want to lose everything I've done. Pretty sure i can but want to know for sure before doing it. Running windows 10

[@markcarlin8635]

I was having a problem doing usb start up repair saying it was failing because I need to run it from windows when running. I could'nt run in from a running windows as the problem was it would not start, just kept going into recovery windows and nothing would work. Any tips for future reference or for people having the same issue? Cheers.

[@tonisjoberg3094]

Thank you. Very much. =)

[@KerrBearrxo]

Helped me thank you boss man

[@DemoniteTinnhu907]

Thank you so so much

[@Sunro7]

mine is still asking for the drivers. any idea where i could find them?

[@MJCCJC22506]

I created a system image from Windows 10 on to an external drive. When I click on the system image, I dont see the OS or other stuff at all. What should the files be?

[@rubyzeng9017]

This is a good way although I have Aomei on my computer therefore it's an better alternative for me to backup.

[@indigotoindia]

When I choose to boot from my USB the laptop just boots normally and I don't get the windows setup. I also noticed that I do not have the MediaMeta file, is that important? Please help

[@teddyquimson7665]

Please help with this problem ( We cant finish copying your files. Connect your file history history drive and refresh this page to continue.

[@Larsbor]

How does the Volumes look before and after ?

[@dinuk2177]

I want to restore an image to my SSD (which I backed up earlier to my HDD). But I have data on my HDD. If I restore it like this, will I lose the data on my HDD? (My system is installed on the HDD and the SSD is empty)

[@TheLarryOBrien]

Could I do the first process on a ssd partition instead of USB .. like a partition on the same disk as the image drive…?

[@v3rt985]

do you need to keep old hard drive in computer

[@dailyjedi3251]

If you want to upgrade from 32 bit to 64 bit Win 10 can you use a back up and recovery image of files created in the 32 bit version?

[@rubenmil6417]

I'm following the same steps, but the problem is when the recovery file is loading, it said that the image recovery cannot be used. When I did it, everything was right what do you suggest?

[@BeatzByJones]

Does this work for Bootcamp?

[@grandzone9377]

So does this mean this process re-images your windows profile and settings but not the files right?