

NOW, you have the means to restore a full working system from the external drive or USB stick in only a few minutes.This guide walks you through the steps of cloning the system disk (or any other disk) of a Windows 11 PC for free.

I presume it is the same with Win10 to Win11. NOW, you have the means to restore a full working system from the external drive or USB stick in only a few don't know specifically about upgrading from Win10 to Win11, but I do know that upgrading a Win7 PC to Win10 corrupts the HP Recovery partition in the process so after that, you can not do a rollback or recovery. This allows you then to boot into WinRE, and you can then use that to do a restore - when you can't boot into Windows! Plus, MR has the option to Add a Recovery Boot Menu entry. I use this all the time and it typically takes less than 15 minutes to do the image backup and about the same time or less to do a restore. This means if you have an 80GB OS partition, and 40GB is used, MR only needs about 24GB to store the image file. My experience is that MR, when using the High Compression option, typically can compress the saved image file to about 60% of the USED space in the OS partition. Macrium Reflect (MR) provides a FREE version that can be used to image and restore partitions or entire drives.ġ) Download and install Macrium Reflect (MR) from here: Ģ) Run MR and choose the option: "Create an image of the partition(s) required to backup and restore Windows" to write a full backup to an external drive or USB stickģ) Use the option to create a boot USB stick or CD I personally prefer to use third-party Backup solutions as they tend to be both more flexible and more reliable than any built-in solutions. I would get rid of BOTH partitions (presuming you want to stay with Win11) and read the info below about creating your own recovery media:


