I have been consistently doing monthly complete backups of my primary and secondary drives. I can't recall when I started doing this but likely back at least to win 8.
For a number of years I used Norton Ghost until it was discontinued. I liked it as one cold go into the image and choose whatever I needed to recover. Worked well.
So in Win10 and now 11 I have been doing monthly images to a portable USB drive ( now SSD). I want to know if I can just create a copy of my primary to my portable SSD
so in the case of failure I can boot up from the usb SSD and then copy back over to a replacement C drive. Am I making sense ?? I would think it would be better than trying to recover from the Win 11 image.
For a number of years I used Norton Ghost until it was discontinued. I liked it as one cold go into the image and choose whatever I needed to recover. Worked well.
So in Win10 and now 11 I have been doing monthly images to a portable USB drive ( now SSD). I want to know if I can just create a copy of my primary to my portable SSD
so in the case of failure I can boot up from the usb SSD and then copy back over to a replacement C drive. Am I making sense ?? I would think it would be better than trying to recover from the Win 11 image.
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- windows 11 up tp date.
- Computer type
- PC/Desktop
- Manufacturer/Model
- Self Built on ASUS board
- CPU
- Intel I5 8600
- Motherboard
- ASUS Prime B360-Plus
- Memory
- 16 gig
- Graphics Card(s)
- Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 TI
- Sound Card
- NVIDIA
- Monitor(s) Displays
- Samsung S27D590
- Screen Resolution
- 1920 X 1080
- Hard Drives
- Samsung 2T SSD Primary/ Samsung 1T SSD secondary; WD 4T for PLEX Storage; WD 4T external also for Plex . Also 3 HDD drives for PLEX backup.
- Keyboard
- Logitech
- Mouse
- Logitech
- Internet Speed
- 82.7 down/21.1 up 5 ms ping
- Browser
- Edge
- Antivirus
- Defender
- Other Info
- Building a new desktop on the horizon; this was definitely a budget build based on circumstances at the time.