Windows ISO file maker?

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I want to backup my system to an ISO file for each drive/partition, what is the best open source/free software to do this? I'm looking for something other than a 30 day free trial and will work with windows 7/8/8.1 and if I try and upgrade to 10. Thanks in advance.

EDIT: Also if it is capable of doing incremental backups that would be great as well. If not I'll live without that feature or find a paid solution that will allow for this.
 
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An ISO file is not what you're looking for.

The above linked tool will create an image of your current installation.
Save this image to another drive
Once you go through all the Win7 install and Win 10 Upgrade, and you do not like it, you can use that image to reconstitute your system exactly as it is today.

http://www.macrium.com/reflectfree.aspx
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Well I'm looking to uninstall and then reinstall Win7 on my system cleanly, then upgrade to 10, if I don't like 10 I want to be able to just ISO the win7 backup to the drive so I can resume where it is right now.
 
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Excellent, thanks. And I notice incremental backup isn't supported in the free version, but differential backup is, that's fantastic. So thanks again.
 
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Quick follow up question, if I want to buy a new SSD, as the one I have is only 256gb and I want a 512gb one, would I best make an ISO of the 256gb and then just apply it to the new 512gb and wipe the 256 clean? I have Windows on the 256gb drive presently along with a bunch of Steam games. Or would making an image with Macrium allow me to put it on another drive?
 
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The Macrium tool will migrate directly from the old drive to the new drive. I used that on one of my boxes a month ago.
Old drive = 250GB HDD
New drive = 250GB SSD

Click, click, migrate.
Done.

I used the similar Samsung Data Migration tool 2 days ago, on my main PC.
120GB Kingston SSD -> 250GB Samsung SSD.
Click, click...15 minutes...done.

Now....I was prepared, in both instances, to do a full reinstall in case the migration thing failed. And it does, sometimes.
It does not always work.
 
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Ahh, nice. Now if I didn't keep getting errors doing this backup I'd be ok. Bad sectors or something keeps causing it to fail the backup. I think I'm going to reinstall Win7 from my disk on this and just copy the odd files/folder I need to keep.

I'm using this on a friends laptop first as he also wants to upgrade from 7 to 10 and wants to back it up first, he never created recovery media, so yeah, I might have to just wipe it clean and reinstall 7 fresh and then create recovery media and then back that up. Then upgrade to 10. Either way, more work than I had expected.
 
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Yeah, this laptop is 6 years old, but I ran Windows Error Checking and it came back as "clean" so maybe that's not the issue, in any case the backup kept failing in spite of multiple attempts with different settings suggested by Macrium's forums of others getting the same error code. Still didn't work, so I don't know what the issue is. Once I'm done with his system I'll be trying Macrium on my own system, which doesn't seem to have anything wrong with it presently, and see if I experience the same error messages. If I do it might be something to do with Macrium moreso than his system. Time will tell and I'll update results here.

EDIT: I'm installing 7 fresh after doing manual backups of his "my documents" etc... type folders and bookmarks. Hopefully I'll be able to use Macrum to make an image of 7 Clean and create recovery media for him.
 
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Yeah, dunno what's going on here. Like I say it's an old laptop, when I try this on my own system, everything is fairly new and functions well so that will be the real measure for me if it's a software I like.
 
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