System backups are a disaster with GPT disks. That's why you have had so much trouble. An Entire Disk backup images these partitions on your disk... Recovery ESP MSR Win10 A System backup images these partitions on your disk... ESP Win10 So when you try to restore a System backup to a new disk you will be missing 2 partitions. I got my EaseUS restore to work but I have software you don't have. I also noted when you restore a System backup to a newly created GPT disk, the MSR is deleted by the restore process.
Okay say I do an entire disk backup when I restore it will it have all my programs on it? I don't want to have to reinstall my programs all over again after I do a restore.
Jim, let's say you make an Entire Disk image on Saturday. On Sunday your OS becomes infected with a nasty virus. You restore your image. Your OS, data, programs, settings, etc will be exactly as they were on Saturday just prior to creating the image. On Monday your drive fails and you replace it with a new one. You restore your image. Your OS, data, programs, settings, etc will be exactly as they were on Saturday just prior to creating the image.
Thanks Brian for clearing that up for me. So if an entire disk backup does just what a system backup does but is better I'm going to switch to that.
Quick interjection here and sincerely apologize for it. @Brian K is 100% and more on ENTIRE DISK BACKUP. Simply because it duplicates everything you need from your system (files/folders/settings etc. in their entirety. @jimb949 as you unfortunately have experienced, system backup only is not always what it's cracked up to be IMO. Maybe is ok for some but a FULL DISK BACKUP brings back ALL (on restore) of what is/was on the computer at the time you made it. Great topic guys and excellent reminder that even the best of intentions with a System Backup Only can and does go wrong sometimes. Out. Peace. Best of luck on all future backups and restores and huge compliment @Brian K for helping with every possible conceivable method to try to reach his desired outcome.
I'm doing a entire disk backup now the only bad thing about that is it's taking a lot longer than when I did a system backup. Oh well it is what it is. Thanks everyone for your help.
You do have to be careful you understand definitions. Some other imaging software defines a system backup differently
Jim, it should take about the same time and the backup image should be about the same size as System backup. Maybe you put a tick in Sector by sector backup. That will greatly increase imaging time.
Pete, can you recall the ones that differ? Are you referring to GPT disks or MBR? I just looked at Eassos System Restore. (different from EaseUS) A System backup of a GPT disk is ESP and Win10.
That's weird Brian I don't have sector by sector checked and yet it says it's going to take 3 hours to complete. When I did system backups it only took about 45 minutes.
Jim, your screenshots indicate you have about 17.5 GB of data on your HD0. My test computer has 15.5 GB of data on HD0. So fairly similar data amounts. My HD0 is a SSD so that will make the backup faster but perhaps not all that faster because I backed up to a HD for this test. Entire disk image using EaseUS boot media... 170 seconds Entire disk image using TeraByte boot media... 107 seconds That's not a few hours as you are seeing. Is your external HD connected to USB3? Edit... Using SSD to SSD... Entire disk image using TeraByte boot media... 36 seconds Edit... The EaseUS image was 10.8 GB. The TeraByte image was 10.9 GB.
AOMEI for one. If you select the whole disk or partition and your system disk is wiped out your out of luck. You have to select system and then you get what you need for a full image
Pete, I think we are using different systems. I've been discussing GPT disks in UEFI systems. I've just looked at AOMEI. A System backup is the same type as EaseUS. ESP and Win10 partitions only. This is a disaster if you have a drive failure because two partitions aren't backed up. Entire disk backup/restore works fine.
Okay I changed to aomei backupper and was able to make a full disk backup and was even able to restore from it. The problem is when I tried a few hours later to make an incremental disk backup off the full disk backup it told me all partitions that need to be backed up have not been found. I don't understand I was able to make a full disk backup why can't I make an incremental disk backup?
