backup and restore

I'm pretty sure I can do this, though I'm wary of pitfalls. I could use some guidance from someone who's actually done it. I bought a new faster Gen4 M.2 drive. I currently boot from an older/smaller Gen3 M.2 drive. I need to move my C: partition to the new drive, but I don't want to remove...

I wanna move the contents of my old failing ssd to my new one. I tried cloning at first but after a week and half of trial and error I gave up. Doing a fresh install now. I want to keep my programs and data and initially was planning to use windows backup. But I did some research and it...

Hi, I've been struggling with my PC lately, it absolutely refuses to update since new years and every time I start it, it goes into about 5 minutes of trying to update to restarting to apply the update and then always saying "update failed, restarting PC" and it finally booting. I figure the...

I'm trying to backup my HDD to an external HDD with about 300GB and hundreds of thousands of files but in the end there are always 2000 files missing due names too long to be moved. I have tried different programs like FastCopy and SyncBackFree, although they are faster they move even less files...

I want reinstall my windows 10 but is there possible to backup and restore "shortcut pinned start and installed font"?

Hi, I am in the process of buying new laptop. I will install Windows 11 on it and then all of the programs I need. I was thinking about cloning image (SSD state) afterwards. That would allow me to save time when i need to crash my system again. I have a few questions. 1) Can I clone SSD image...

I will need to move network shares from windows Server 2016 to Windows Server 2019. how can I get the best practices with Robocopy to copy the shares while some files are in use? How to copy all the types of permissions to the new server? How to move the timestamps as it? And finally, Is there a...

I'm planning on moving my Steam games over from one pc to another. Based on what I've seen online, I have 3 options: 1.) Re-download games. Problem is that re-downloading games will take a while. 2.) Use Steam's backup tool as seen here. I'm unsure if it's safe do this on an external hard...

Okay, let me explain you. I'm kinda of a data hoarder. I have tons of music, video files (series, movies), games, software, etc. basically more than 8TB of data. I have them on my 16TB hard drive but I have been thinking of what I would do in case something happens i.e. disk failure, pc on fire...

Hey, So I was having some problems with my old surface pro 4 when one day windows corrupt itself due to some odd circumstances (I tried everything and it was definitely corrupt) after trying to get windows back onto the drive (it diffident work) I decided to get a new surface. It just arrived...

when trying to migrate windows server 2012 R2 to 2016 via Robocopy . .. I have a problem that can't be skipped named -the path is too long -, something like that! how can I solve this ?

Have Fabrik Ultimate Backup software on a Windows 10 desktop -- backups stored on Simpletech external hard drive. I can see the backup files in Windows Explorer, but when I click on the Fabrik configuration or the Fabrik Status programs, the software wants me to log in . . . I did not log into...

I want to backup my 2TB external HDD, 1TB laptop HDD and 64GB Android Phone ROM to an external 5TB HDD. I want to set the backup in a way that whatever files are created/added, deleted or edited, including moving files/folders to different locations are reflected on the 5TB backup drive. It...

I am replacing my old HDD as it's crashing a lot and so deciding to buy a SSD but when I'm trying to create a system image, the program is showing two system drives. Actually, I have two hard disks in my pc. I even tried to unplug the other hard disk(which is not crashing) and the OS still boots...

I have a custom built PC with my OS installed on a 128gb ssd and most of my files stored on a 1 TB WD HDD. I tried to backup my PC to an external drive with adequate memory available and it failed (error message: 'Windows Backup did not complete successfully' & additional message: 'Check your...

I'm looking to put a new version of Photoshop Elements onto my new build PC. My current PC has Elements 9 installed. What is the best way to transfer my Library from Elements 9 on the old PC, to Elements 2020 on the new PC. All of my photos are RAW format, and are stored on a dedicated HDD...

I have a Lenovo Y500, currently running Windows 8.0. I also have Windows 10 installed. I want to do a clean install of Windows 10, but I want to keep my Win 8 files and programs. I plan on initiating the clean install from Win 10. What's the best way to backup my Win 8 files and programs to...

Currently waiting on a new M.2 SSD to arrive and I just need to know how to properly use the image of the SSD. The SSD has Windows 10, programs, settings, a game or two, and some mods. I used Macrium Reflect to make the image and it's stored on one of my hard drives.

I have a lenovo Y510p ideapad. I recently caught a virus and had to factory reset my pc. When I went to the nearest backup (made very recently) and tried to recover it using OKR. I received an error stating there wasn't enough space on the drive. The backup is about 683gb. When I made the...

I have Windows 7 on my current system. I am going to upgrade to Windows 10, but I want to backup my data first. If I use a system image, will this cause problems when restoring my data on the new OS? How should I go about doing this? Thanks.