Full PC Backup Software
I am looking for software to make a complete backup of my PC to my external hard drive. I had Acronis and it failed me when I needed it, so that is out. Anyone using something that they can suggest I look into?
Ricky
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Hi Ricky, I use Macrium Reflect, has always worked for me. Be sure create a boot disk.
I forget, but what OS do you use?
Windows' built in system imaging has never failed me, and I've had to reinstall an image more times than I care to remember.
With that said, during the initial release of the uprade from W8 to W8.1, one of the smaller, closed system partitions wouldn't resize to a large enough size during the upgrade and the system image creation always failed as the size of the partition was not enough to create the volume shadow copy. There was a great workaround for those that experienced this, and Microsoft fixed in on their next W8.1 upgrade version.
I have Windows 8.1. In fact a remote session with Microsoft they reinstalled Windows 8.1. So it is fresh. I still am fighting the Windows update issue at this time. So I am trying to get that straight first.
This is just an idea, but if you don't have considerable data and time tied up into what's going on with your updates right now and you have plenty of Bonus Bytes data and the time, you might want to look into downloading a new copy of Windows 8.1 from Microsoft and performing a fresh install with that (if it's different from whta they did with the remote session). When I was having all of the problems with my Windows 8.1 updates and installed the freshly downloaded copy it worked very well, though I had to install two files (one required prerequisites) after the fresh OS installation in order to be able to perform normal updates, but they were just the June 2016 Update Client and the July 2016 Update Rollup (and the prerequisites for the latter). Once those were installed the updates went perfectly.
I can't guarantee that this will solve your update problems and such, but it may help. Of course, again, this takes more data and more time, unfortunately.
