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101: How to Make a System Image Backup in Windows 8/8.1

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April 14, 2014 2:22:59 PM

odd that its says use windows 7 file recovery for a windows 8 backup.
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April 14, 2014 3:18:52 PM

Is there any way to exclude certain files and/or folders from the backup image? Or do I need to buy fancier software for this type of feature? For example, I don't want to waste storage space backing up images that include all of my Steam games that I can easily re-download upon recovery.
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April 14, 2014 4:33:33 PM

how do you execute to restore??? point to only show how to backup.
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April 14, 2014 6:56:23 PM

Now if MS would allow the use of USB flash drives to save the image to this might be a usefull tool. Afterall who wants to carry around an extra HDD when traveling.
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April 14, 2014 6:57:59 PM

Now if MS would allow the use of USB flash drives to save the image to this might be a usefull tool. Afterall who wants to carry around an extra HDD when traveling.
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April 15, 2014 4:57:56 AM

Just followed on how to do it but cancelled after seeing how large it is. I think i'll delete all my games and then try again. But it's great that a full image backup is default on windows now.
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April 15, 2014 5:05:15 AM

First, thanks for the video!

Second, the true test of success is in the ability to restore. Have you tried this? I know previous versions of Windows were hit or miss with regard to the restore functionality?
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June 20, 2014 9:26:41 PM

Thanks for the info, from what I can see it should be similar to Windows 7 and I have never had a problem restoring from those backups. I save an image probably once every 4-6 weeks and then backup documents daily to an external drive.

Someone asked about the restore, you boot from the recovery CD that you created and select restore from a system image. Some PCs have built in recovery on the hard disk (press F?? on boot, look it up for your PC) but that is no use if you lose the physical disk so the CD is worth creating.
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