W 10 Backup Question
I use a Toshiba laptop running W10 Anniversary edition (home). I want to back up all my files, including the OS. My question is: Do I need to purchase a program like Acronis, or can I use the backup u...
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garry1p wrote:
From what I understand you can back up all you want but if you have a disk wipe out then you have to have some way to boot your backup to a new disk and that is not provided in the win 10 backup.
I don't believe that is an accurate assessment. ALL computers start with BIOS operation during initial bootup before going to operating system. Simply click the proper key during bootup process to take you to the BIOS settings and from there you can select what disk, USB device, or CD/DVD setting you need to boot from. From there you can proceed with booting to your backup/restore disk or USB device that you previously created.
That said, Acronis, and other second party programs probably are a lot more flexible and easy to use if you want to spend your money.
