Your System Recovery disc/thumb drive is itself bootable. There are many different things that can take the form of a bootable disc. The "boot disc" is probably your Windows 10 install media, but I can't be absolutely certain of that. A System Recovery disc (or USB thumb drive) is nothing more than the Windows utilities necessary to try to fix an unbootable computer or to recover using a system image you've created when you can't use the repair facilities to revive the machine. A 500GB drive is about $50 or so and a 1TB drive is between $80 and $100. You really need to invest in a backup drive of at least 500GB to have for not only a system image but to use File History for your data files and/or other backup software (many drives come with backup software included if you don't want to use File History). If it only had that much on it that will take you over 20 DVDs to create a system image on. I feel rather certain that if you look at "This PC" that your C:\ drive will have well over 100 GB on it. A system image is just that - an image of your *entire* system including user data, etc. I'm not seeing that on File History, but you can get to that option via the "Backup & Restore (Windows 7)" panel.īut it's not excessive. Which is insanely too small, as is a 16GB flash drive. I am feeling really dumb right now and anxious about having a good copy of this OS to restore from. Just now noticed that the Backup and Restore page is also labeled with "(Windows7)". I do have an initial "System Recovery" on a 16 GB thumb drive of the factory install. Please help and explain to me what I need to do to make some kind of backup of this clean system to restore to in case I ever need to. Am I missing something here? This seems excessive on all fronts to me. By the looks of the progress bar it will take at least 4 more DVDs. So far however it has taken 5 DVDs and 5 hours of copying.
I am using System Image Backup found on the File History page. This is a brand new laptop with most of the crapware uninstalled so I wanted a copy of it that way in case of disaster. I had a 16 GB inserted to use but the machine rejected that as an option so I am using DVD+RW 4.7 GB size.
I am attempting to make a system image of a Windows 10 laptop.
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