Windows 11 & Windows 10 backup and restore full system image

How to backup & restore Windows 11 or Windows 10 full system image
For Windows 11, 06:59 Advanced Startup is under System, Recovery
08:00 System image recovery is under See more recovery options
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Video links:
How to create a Windows 11 installation media: • How to create Windows ...
How to create a Windows 10 USB installation media: • Create Windows 10 inst...
Backup your personal files in Windows 10: • Windows 10 backup and ...
Notes and Warnings:
Formatting a drive will completely wipe it
Restoring a complete full image backup will completely wipe the internal drive
Chapters: How to automate a full backup and perform restore in Windows 11
00:00 Intro
00:20 Chapters explained
00:40 Chapter 1 - Prepare an external drive
02:13 Chapter 2 - Configuring Backup and Schedule
05:11 Chapter 3 - Restoring files with demo
06:59 Chapter 4 - Full image Restore with demo
07:26 Full Restore option 1 - Restart from within Windows
09:38 Full Restore option 2 - Restart using the Windows 10 USB media
Popular Laptops boot hot keys:
Dell: Tap F12 when the Dell logo is displayed.
HP: Tap F9 when the HP logo is displayed.
Lenovo: Tap F12 when the Lenovo logo is displayed.
Toshiba: Tap F12 or F2 when the Toshiba logo appears.
Acer: Tap F12 as the Acer logo appears.
Other: Try tapping Esc, F1-12, or Enter during bootup.
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[@pxkhoo]

Thanks!

[@KnowledgeSharingTech]

Thank you for your Super Thanks!

[@xdsantana]

Absolutely awesome tutorial! It helped me a lot! Thank you very much! 😊

[@rittol2365]

Most thorough video I have found on this, thank you

[@petern.9923]

Expertly done. I would use the program and create a rescue media first but little difference.

[@KnowledgeSharingTech]

For Windows 11, 06:59 Advanced Startup is under System-->Recovery 08:00 System image recovery is under See more recovery options

[@TechFusionGuy]

Really respect you sir for making such a nice detail and explain video and respect your hard work.

[@4funrc11]

👍 _Awesome video!_ 👍 So well done in fact, that even I could understand how to do all these things! 😆 lol *Thank-You!* 😍

[@positv7726]

one of the best and clear IT explanation videos I have seen !!!!! Thank you Sir !

[@KnowledgeSharingTech]

You are welcome!

[@Kurt1968]

Great video. Very useful and systematic approach. Thanks!

[@KnowledgeSharingTech]

Thanks, glad you liked it

[@naxos928]

Accurate and precise tutorial I appreciate it 🤝 have a great weekend Bud.

[@KnowledgeSharingTech]

Thanks, you too!

[@danielfennock3707]

Thank you for your tutorial, it's useful and informative, I also think Aomei backupper is good to do this.

[@bigbadcroc]

Thank you for making this video, very helpful and you explained everything very well

[@KnowledgeSharingTech]

You're very welcome!

[@matrix01mindset]

Super nice tutorial, really good

[@hossamal-wakeel7677]

Sir, i am speechless, you are wonderful in explaining the whole process. Really I never enjoyed a topic description like yours. Really appreciated GOD Bless You 🙏🙏🙏

[@KnowledgeSharingTech]

So nice of you. God bless you too

[@MrSnowMen]

I like it, Idoit proof (for me ;-) ), done just the way i like it. Thanks

[@pa1man856]

Absolutely great video, thx so much 👍

[@KnowledgeSharingTech]

Most welcome

[@audiovisualproof5407]

Don't know if any have had this issue when creating a Windows 10 System Image but I tried to successfully create a system image 5 times and each time the status would reach 97% then stall and never fully complete. Then a thought dawned on me and that was to NOT hide my desktop icons and make sure the "Show desktop icons" was selected from the right mouse click desktop context menu. I was finally able to create a Windows 10 System Image after much frustration! 😃👍

[@lachlanbell8390]

That makes absolutely no sense. But then it's Microsoft, which has built a global monopoly on operating systems that make absolutely no sense, so I guess that shouldn't be surprising.

[@thomash4776]

Good Video. 👍

[@humbertostunter1]

Excellent tutorial, thank you for sharing your knowledge and time

[@KnowledgeSharingTech]

Most welcome

[@jaswantsinghgill8194]

always great knowledge!

[@KnowledgeSharingTech]

Glad to hear that!

[@MarcyGreen333]

thank you for sharing a nice tutorial have a good day

[@KnowledgeSharingTech]

Thank you! You too!

[@careles3520]

During set up backup process, there is a warning notification below that says: "EFS certificates are not include in this backup" and "A system repair disc in needed to restore a system image". Can you please elaborate on this and how does it matter?

[@noweare1]

Very useful, thanks

[@KnowledgeSharingTech]

You're welcome!

[@SAULJman44]

Great information Would restoring full system image on new drive also transfer over active windows(retail) key?

[@mattisola]

thank you sir

[@KnowledgeSharingTech]

Most welcome

[@voidmain9519]

Just a quick question sir...can we use the same external hard drive in which we performed whole windows backup system image for storing other regular data or files like as a storage also??? And can we store other data on recovery usb thumb drive???

[@Doubird28]

hello, can you tell me why you need to have the windows iso which contains the os operating system just to get to the window that you clic Repair pc?

[@armenakrf]

Спасибо большое

[@sjsphotog]

great stuff thanks

[@KnowledgeSharingTech]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@junaxrosete]

Very informative. Can I restore the "WindowsImageBackup" that I created on windows 10? Because currently I used windows 11, it almost 20 days ago since I upgraded it from win10 to win11.

[@Valandovchanec]

Very interesting video

[@KnowledgeSharingTech]

Thanks

[@amaretto_330]

hi! i have a question. so, if i perform a backup with a system image on a laptop running windows 10, is it possible to use that system image to backup all my data into a computer that runs on windows 11? or would i have to use file history or some other method?

[@danielterrazas]

Very nice tutorial, thank you so much. But I´d like to know if the complete restoration will include all the installed programs and their settings, system settings, files, fonts, etc., or just the system files. I´m looking for an easy alternative to Acronis full restore that will restore the entire PC to a previous state without needing to install everything all over again.

[@KnowledgeSharingTech]

Yes it will

[@hozanakrawi1094]

You are amazing

[@KnowledgeSharingTech]

You too!

[@Larsbor]

How does the Volume look like before and after ?

[@Tecalitlan1943]

Great video. Question, I have an external drive and I have two PC's, one with Windows 11 and the other one with Windows 10, can I save the images on the same SSD external drive? So if I ever need to do an image restore, the PC can select which one wil work? Or does each image drive have to be saved on two different external drives?

[@KnowledgeSharingTech]

I didn't try it but I think you can

[@VK4VO]

In Win 11 is it possible to create an image from an MBR disk and restore it to another disk that is a GPT disk?

[@Layput]

Can windows recognize images made by third party software like Acronis or is it just the backup that was done by microsoft?

[@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?

[@AndreasKaraolis]

Thank you sir your video is very helpful 🙏🏻 I have a question though. I will replace my laptop’s internal drive and I want to backup everything. Aside from my files will the System Image backup include my apps, programs and games? And if so will it restore them together with the files on a new internal drive?

[@KnowledgeSharingTech]

Yes. If you want to clone your drive, you can also use this method: kzbin.info/www/bejne/jKaTfpuKg5KqfMU

[@AndreasKaraolis]

@@KnowledgeSharingTech Thank you 👍🏻

[@KnowledgeSharingTech]

No worries

[@abdurrahmannajdi6188]

sir when i wnat to restore system image Should I choose format option ?

[@HULCHUL1]

I have a question about, added some users in Backup Operators group, but when I am trying start a backup tool it asks for Administrator password, even though the user is member of Backup operators group. Please help

[@Kolian1274]

Thanks for very nice and easy understanding Video I want to reformat my hard drive i bought my computer use it had already Microsoft office 13 I do not have any product key or desk can you tell me after formatting my hard drive can I restore Microsoft office too And I do not also want to restore all my files only restore those as I needed Can you please tell me the best way to do that I subscribed to your Chanel also Thanks for all your help

[@KnowledgeSharingTech]

Thank you. Try this: 1- Make a Backup of your computer with the method I showed here 2- Restore this backup to your new computer. This should restore the applications with their product keys 3- Delete the files you don't want 4- Do not delete the old computer before making sure everything you need is transferred to the new one

[@Naif-Sama]

Please help!! If my 1 ssd drive is divided to(c:, d:, e:).... And I backup c only.... When I restore it... Will it format c: and d: and e:??? Or just c:??? Pleassse

[@shailendrasrivastava8314]

Sir I have created the system image backup in my external hard disk but when i try to recover the same under recovery mode my PC doesn’t find my external hard disk. I have tried it so many times, I have formatted the disk as per your guidelines created the backup of system image but PC doesn’t detect my external hard disk. Please help.

[@qutiephoebe2154]

Great Vid. For me, I created a system image last April 2023 and want to use that to restore my windows 11, during the @9:03, it would ask for a system repair disc. I dont have a CD drive. :/

[@KnowledgeSharingTech]

You can use a USB key prepared with Windows 11 like this: kzbin.info/www/bejne/h5_Zo3qEgqx_aMU

[@QueenLISA_Cutee]

please make one video if i have usb bootable pendrive i have use BR Automation pc if have damaged pc so how to i use gigabyte ddr3 motherboard this pen drive need to run

[@kokoronotomo_09]

System restore image, work on windows 10, i did upgrade to windows 11 pro and creat new backup system image when restore said file not find. Try from restore point protection ( failed ) not change anything.

[@CelestialxPanda]

I have wondows 11 and a backup image of windows 10.... Can i system reset using the image with bricking the pc?

[@raihansharif142]

My computer hard drive has failed . I do not have Fit locker recovery key . How can I retrieve my data . Please advised.

[@cataliniovandaniel]

Hello! I made a system image, I installed windows 10 on an m2 nvme and I can't do image recovery, it won't let me! Don't let me go next!

[@2.0_Palestine]

Can you please help me to obtain my BitRecovery key, as I have accidentally updated my BIOS and is now asking for the key, but I never created one....Will this be on my Microsoft account security pages ? As I am also changing my mobile number , I have to wait 30 days before I can display my security settings on my Microsoft account pages ? Please help

[@moonshinebandit9709]

Can you restore to a new ssd nvme or does it havevto be same drive?

[@KnowledgeSharingTech]

You can restore to a new one

[@user-ep1ms1qn2y]

If i backup to windows 7 can i still upgrade to windows 10

[@MasoudSabahi]

I have a 2TB external HDD, I have some files on it which I don't want to lose them on format. My windows drive is a 250 GB SSD, is it possible to make a 250 GB partition on my external HDD and create the Backup Image on that partition?

[@KnowledgeSharingTech]

Yes, you can shrink the partition using Disk Manager. Open Diskman in Windows, right click the volume of 2TB and select Shrink Volume. Of course this will work only if you have empty space on the 2TB drive.

[@MasoudSabahi]

@@KnowledgeSharingTech Many thanks

[@josealmanza6840]

I didn't get the "system image" to pop up, also didn't want to back up so I just gave up.

[@KnowledgeSharingTech]

You mean at 03:41 ? Can you send me a screenshot to my email?

[@prashant02145]

Windows 10 recovery from old SSD to new SSD as possible??

[@mrbeast5322]

Sir can I still recover my files after resetting my PC 2times? Thank you so much

[@KnowledgeSharingTech]

If you didn't wipe your PC, chances are that you have your files under a folder called Windows.old

[@Zzzzzzzzz678]

does it also save the apps that i installed?

[@KnowledgeSharingTech]

Yes

[@Zzzzzzzzz678]

@@KnowledgeSharingTech thanks man 🙏

[@Zzzzzzzzz678]

can i make a partition and save the system image in it?

[@KnowledgeSharingTech]

Never tried it but I don't think so

[@mdd1963]

WIndows 7 Backup and Restore, although present in both Win10 and Win11, is actually NOT recommended to be used as a viable backup solution....

[@gengpan]

Windows often says “ not enough space”. System is 100gb, backup disk is 250gb. It tells me there is no enough space. It has been 20 years, Don’t know why windows never make system backup easier.

[@KnowledgeSharingTech]

Windows uses a Snapshot to make a backup. If your system drive doesn't have a room for a Snapshot, you will get a "not enough space" message

[@gengpan]

@@KnowledgeSharingTech so it is my system disk size too small. i thought it means the hard drive for backup storage. it is wired design by windows.