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hi everyone have a quick tutorial for
you today I wanted to show you how to
backup your Windows 10 operating system
your C Drive all its program files and
all the settings involved with any
programs that you have installed on your
computer it's very straightforward to do
with the tools built into Windows 10
you'll start by clicking your search and
from there entering and backup we're
going to backup settings now here under
the backup we're having of the
availability of more options we're going
to click this and then we're going to
look on the left pane for C advanced
settings now once we've clicked that
we're going to want to create a system
image backup you'll see that at the
bottom left click that and finally we're
going to look at create a system image
again this is your full C Drive all the
programs that you've installed and all
the settings associated with those
programs in the event you have a system
failure you'll be able to use one of
these images to give a complete restore
of your computer and all its settings
all its programs and to be a big
time-saver and a big help
so let's click create system image and
here we're presented with where do we
want to save the backup to meaning the
image that we create where do we want to
keep it so then event in the future we
need to use it we'll be able to you've
got a list of all the hard drives
installed on your system I'm going to
save it to my I Drive which is a 250 gig
SSD drive you have an option to save it
to DVD or on a network as well click
Next here it's going to show you which
drives you want to include in the backup
now on a Windows 10 installation you
have an EFI system partition which is
part of this backup it automatically
selects it and you can see that it's
indicated by the check and it's dimmed
also you have the actual C Drive where
all your information and data stored all
of your programs and then you have a
recovery partition as well we want to
leave all those checked
we're gonna click next again it's going
to verify where we're wanting to save it
and at this point we'll start to back up
this will take a little bit of time
probably 15 minutes I'm backing up a 250
gig hard drive which is an SSD to
another SSD so it's faster than a one of
your older spinning platter hard drives
but it can still take about 15 minutes
so I'll let this run I'll speed it up
and when it's done we'll proceed from
there
you
all right so now we're finished the
backups completed and this asks if we
wanted to create a system repair disk
I'm not going to do that because if I
need to make this restoration I can
simply use the USB thumb drive or I have
the Windows 10 installer installed too
so I'll enter no and the backups
completed successfully now earlier we
picked where we wanted to store it and
it is stored it in this location where
we picked it creates this directory
structure called windows image backup
and within this is all the information
that contains the image recovery
restoration partitions for the C drives
that we'd selected earlier every time it
creates a backup it creates this
structure now we can create multiple
backups but if we do create another
backup it will always recreate it and
overwrite what's in here so we need to
create a new directory put this in it
and give it a name and date that make
sense to us in the future if we want to
do a restoration from an earlier time
but in any case we can take this data
that it's written as an image and mount
it through our disk manager to access
that you'll select this PC right-click
it and choose manage and then from there
we're going to go to disk management now
this is going to show all the hard drive
and all the partitions on our computer
but we want to mount that image that we
just created so go up under action click
attach VHD virtual hard drive and from
here we're going to browse to that
location where we saved our backup to
which was our high drive we're going to
look in this folder and we're gonna look
for a backup directory go in here and
now we've got all of three partitions
that were selected based on that backup
criteria we'd made typically the largest
file that you see in here is going to be
representative of your C Drive and all
of its Program Files so this is clearly
our largest where we'll select that
answer open and then we're going to say
okay it's like okay and it's mounted
that virtual hard drive image and you
see that it has a light blue indication
showing that now what we need to do to
be able to assess it in Windows Explorer
is give it a drive letter you can see
that all these others have Drive letters
with the exception of the one we just
mounted so select it right-click it and
tell it to change drive letter and paths
here we can add a drive letter to it and
we'll go with a default
J answer okay and you see now that it's
a sign the letter J to that drive so if
I go to my Windows Explorer under this
PC you see now that we have a duplicate
of our C Drive that is now mounted from
that virtual hard drive image we created
if we go into it you'll see that we've
got access to all of our program files
just identical to what's on our C Drive
before we go into our program files
there so it's a good way by creating
these drive images that are going to
allow you to access your data in two
ways by booting from a thumb drive and
doing a complete restore from that image
to your hard drive that you'd backed up
in the event you had a catastrophic
failure or you wanted to upgrade your
hard drive or for some reason just your
hard drive failed and also be able to
mount that virtual hard drive image to
access individual files or photos or
anything of that nature so I'll go ahead
and in this video and then I'm gonna
show you how to restore that drive image
to your hard drive from outside of
Windows booting through a USB thumb
drive which has the D Windows 10
installer installed on it
alright look forward to seeing you in
the next video
