Windows 11: Create full backup to external USB drive and restore (2024)
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- Опубликовано: 5 авг 2024
- Windows 11 tutorial on how to create a full backup of a computer still works in 2024. Written steps ➡️ pureinfotech.com/backup-windo...
The video also shows the steps to restore the computer from the most recent backup.
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Table of contents:
00:00 Intro
00:41 Create full backup on Windows 11
00:58 Restore backup on Windows 11
03:20 Closing 
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🚨 Note: Although I mentioned in the video "USB hard drive," not USB flash drive. It's important you use a "USB hard drive" (the big storage drive) since USB flash drives (those little thumb drives) are not compatible. Among the reasons, they are slow and not reliable for this task.
The "backup and restore" feature in control panel specificly asks for a USB Flash drive. Why not use that feature?
Hi Mauro, Thank you for creating such a wonderful video. I love how clearly you explained everything. May I have some advice from you? I recently got a new computer and have already created many files and installed many software. I've used 270 GB of my 1TB Win-SSD. It's time to back up. I plan to perform System Image backups once in a while and File History backups more frequently. However, I'm unsure whether I should use the same external hard drive for both types of backups-my instinct tells me not to. What would you recommend? I only have one 2T external hard drive at hand at the moment, and I want to do the backup now. If I should perform System Image and File History backups on separate external hard drives, which type of backup should I do first? Thank you in advance!
Like everyone who has commented before me, I say this is an excellent demonstration; "straight to the point, clear and crisp, short and sweet" All true. Thank you.
Straight to the point with great, clear instructions. Thank you so much!
Wow! Thank you man. No fluff, just straight to the point. Simple too. Awesome!
Thank you so much. No unnecessary information, a quick and straight to the point guideline, and showing us how to both install on the same drive and a new one in case of an upgrade. I'm saving this for the next few years to come. Great work.
Thank you so much for your feedback. Mauro
Very straightforward and crisp. Love it!
THANK YOUUUUUUU, this was great. I ran into a weird issue at one point about it couldn't create backup bc of the EPS being in use somehow but tried it again and it went through with no problem.
Short and sweet. A very clear guide.
Straight to the point & highlighted something I would've missed towards the end! Thank you sir!
love myself a short and sweet explanation video. Thanks!
after entering control panel you could just click Back Up and Restore without going around through the File History, but great video and clear explanation! thank you!
Thank you for that! I appreciate the latest information for backing up files. (2022-23).
WOW, very clear and helpful instructions. Thank you sir.
The best guide I've come across so far. Thank you!
I've used it looong time ago in windows 7. It works, it is simple and free.
very valuable info, very well presented! many thanks!
thanks this is a very helpful vid it had clear instructions and you did not got too fast .
Thank you so much bro 🤩🙌. This turtorial helped me so much.
Very helpful and clear instructions. Thank you
great tutorial thanks for taking the time to make it
This tech gets straight to the point.
Step by step.
5 Star 🌟 video & information ✨️
Clear and to the point. On my new laptop, performing the first backup, I received a message - drive C encrypted, backup location will not be encrypted, What does this mean? It would seem that now that CD/DVD disk drives have disappeared from most laptops, the first option for a bootable disc should be a USB stick.
Thank you very much sir
Love from Arunachal Pradesh,India 🇮🇳
Thanks a lot. Saved me a lot of headache
Thank you! Very useful 👌
Great info! Thank you
Super helpful guide, thank you
Thank you very much, back up in process! I was stuck as windows 11 kept suggesting me to back up to one drive and wanted to resume the back-ups I had automatically on windows 10, from my PC that has an SDD disk and a HDD disk to an external drive. This was simple and really helpful!
Very helpful! Thank you very much
fantastic very well presented to the public well done mate
Excellent, thanks so much. Windows 11 is sorely missing its "timemachine" analogous application, makes me want to switch back just for timemachine.
thank you, great tutorial
Great Video! Very helpful!
Nice - thank you so much -- very helpful.
Great
Very shot tutorial
Helpful
Thanks 🙏
Great video, thanks!
Thx man you really helped me
Thank you. Good one.
Thank you sir.
I am in the middle of going back to windows 10. I HATED windows 11! I am lucky I had another computer to watch your video while I was listening to you, One thing though-I didn't get the same prompts or pages you did, so I hope this works. I will let you know, Of course, I was beyond 10 days, Thanks, I hope this works.
Very nice and thank you for this nice video. Perfetto
Good Information, and very help me, Thanks a lot Bro...
that was great. thank you
Thanks! 👌
Thank You it worked! 👍👍
thanks for the help
Thank you
NICE, you never know when your micro ssd will go out, this is essential
Thank you so much.
very very useful thanks a lot
Nice video! thank you very much! it is any option where you can tell to the system how often to do the backup by himself?
And does it imply that one can see by looking at a the folder or directory, that it is included in the backup, like in sync and share with the green "tick" at the folder?
You are a PC God!!!!
thank you!!
Thank you 😍❤️
ty!!
Well explain 👍
thank you so much
how much free space should have the backup hard drive or pen drive to do the system backup image? My C drive has 90GB files with os and apps.
Thanks
I have a question. So if i have windows 10 home and i create a full backup to an external drive, then i clean install windows 10 pro on my PC and use the system image recovery option to recover everything. Is it gonna bring back windows 10 home or will it still be pro?
When I try to download the system image to the external hard drive, I get a message that it cannot download to a removable hard drive, and that I must download onto a network drive. What is wrong? I'm using a Seagate 2 TB removable hard drive.
question, does this work from a Windows 11 PC to a Windows 10 one? Or do they both need to be in the same OS and version, for instance 22H2?
This is by far the best video I’ve seen. However up until the last step windows asks me for a DVD recovery disk or to create one, since I don’t have a DVD/RW DRIVE the system cancels my process. Any ideas as to why this is happening?
Hello All,
Once i have made a backup in another drive, and want to install the backup in a new drive. Does that drive need to have windows too? How would that work? Thanks in advance 🙏
very nice video
thanks!
If i have multiple partitions on the same drive this will backup just the system and all i have on my C: partition? And if i will restore will the other partitions and what i have on them will remain, right?
wow!!!! thx so much
LIFE SAVER
Tanks
Do i need to format my pen drive to NTFS format?
I did this but now while restoring after clicking on the system age recovery option and then clicking next, it says that you don't have a repair disc and when I click on create disc, it doesn't create one and I'm unable to restore my backup.
Does someone know how to load up the backup into the laptop?
Because I did the backup, and it is not just drag and drop right. Its some weird encrypted data, but I am not finding how to load this data back into my laptop
Thanks so much, now I have Win 11 backed up on external hard drive 😉
@@Nala_1230 Windows 11 created a OS image backup and I backed up the PC by enabling a scheduled backup. Oh once you install Windows 11 Microsoft won't let you reinstall or go back to Windows 10 using that same internal hard drive.
Im so damm confused man. My gaming laptop is acting all weird and slow amd startup and its getting worse and black screening. Im so cnfused, what should I do? Make a recovery drive or a backup drive? Also what the hell is safe mode? Im so confused Ive wat hed videos all week and all this stuff is too mich for me to grasp. Im too stupid to fix my computer.
@@CantTreadOnMe Don't say you're stupid, just think of it as being misinformed. I would reset the computer back to factory settings. There will be a box on your home screen showing most if not all the programs that was removed during the reset. Or you can run your Windows Troubleshooter and location or fix incompatible program issues. I'm leaning toward a incompatibility issue.
@@JasonSpitzMI50 Thanks man ill look into that. Im probably just gonna do a complete reset which seems like the easiest option. All this other troubleshooting stuff is too confusing for me. Will it wipe my nvidia and intel drivers so I can do clean installations of them?
@@CantTreadOnMe It depends on how you got them set up. But if you do a reset you can always add what was removed back to your system one by one. I would recommend if you do a system reset is to see which one that's acting incompatible with your operating system. Are you running Windows 11?
Should I make my usb as recovery drive first? Or ordinary usb can do it?
I have a USB with other files, when I continued to the step of "Where do you want to save the backup?" I receive a message that says "this device is not a valid backup location." How do I fix this? do I need an empty USB?
So the backup I'm making should be in window 10 version or window 11? Or is this really work?
Does this work if you go back to Windows 10 and open the backup with win10?
Will it also recover all the software and files that i Have installed?
Please please tell me in the last it shows the drive is bitlocker encrypted hwo to solve that
thx
if i reset my pc and then after i try for the system recovery by advance restart, will it work?
thanks :D
Simple BUT, Have Windows 11 22H2 installed, new install.. haveing trouble creating a System Image on USB.
When I get to the select destination I have no option to select a USB
The "On a Hard Disk" ny USB Flash Drive E: is displayed, but Warning message This device cannt be used...
The USB shows up in Windows Explorer, as drive E:, it is formatted as NTSF type, and I can read/write to the drive.
Hi, good option, nice explanation.
It works from Windows side only on a "fresh" hard disk or medium, is that true? - So one can not select folders or subfolders of the drive I guess...
Didn't check out yet - did anyone?
Very nice guide! I have a question. Do I have to worry about any existing file on the external drive I want to use to backup the pc, even if I say Yes to the "Create a system image" prompt?
i got the same question
Perfect
Should I use new hard drive ? As it ask me to formate the hard drive, but after formate it , it will delete all files
Once you get to select the backup image I use the latest available system image and click next. And it’s not the same. It stays to restore this computer windows needs to format the drive ect. I installed a new hard drive I do not have any installation discs…
What kind of USB flash Drive is needed to backup files on Windows 11?
File History not opening. What do? My file explorer freezes and not responding as well.
Can you use this for transferring everything to another computer?
Please I need your help
I had a laptop with original Windows 10
And I was making a backup of the Windows settings
You saved the backup file to an external hard drive
And my laptop was stolen
I bought a new laptop with the original version 11
the question
How can I withdraw the installed programs and Document folder from the backup copy to the new Windows without applying the old Windows to the new?
I mean, I just want to pull the programs.
Very well done video! I have one question: if I create the image only for the C drive, once I have to restore the backup will it erase my secondary disk D ?
Yes
@@Nato420 offcource not !!
it will leave your other drives alone !
can i use this image back up to windows 10 recovery?
Thank you! Is the backup device password protected automatically? Does it use my Windows password or my PIN?
Hello, i did creat backup system image but when i try to restore go setting recovery restart then system image recovery ( an internal error occured. The following information might help you resolve the error : the system cannot find the file specified. (0x80070002) anyone can help it ? Ill apreciate thank you. )
it will backup all the applications passwords an favorites?
I assume that since this is to restore a backup image, if your new storage device is larger than that of the original image, the drive will have a partition the size of the original image on it and then a separate partition for the rest of the storage space on the disk once this process is complete.
Another thing to keep in mind is that you will not be able to restore to a storage device that is smaller than the one used for the original image.
Please correct me if things have changed.
Hi, I am new to this and is a learning curve for me, I have got a new laptop and I want to create a backup image for Windows 11 and, I am not too sure what the USB size should I use? I've got a 128 GB, would that be enough?
Regards,
Florin