Image Your Drive Before Installing Windows 10

How to Create an Image of Your PC Before Upgrading to Windows 10. If you have followed my advice, you are imaging your hard drive at least once a week. In the event of catastrophic failure, you can just restore the image, and be back to computing as usual. This is made more important by the uncertainty surrounding a new operating system  like Windows 10. This article will show you how simple it is. It will be much faster if you have a USB 3.0 port on your computer; but, in any event, you will need a USB external drive larger than your computer's hard drive. Now, get out there and create a backup image. Don't make me come over there.

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[MackD]

Windows will not permit the creation of a system image on any USB external drive. Only a folder location, cd/dvd, or network location came up as available. I was trying to use a 1T WD My Passport Ultra (USB). The Windows system image process doesn't even detect it as a possible choice, and Macrium returns error message saying it's not a valid destination. Some hunting on the Web revealed that Microsoft apparently won't let you use a USB external drive for making system images (??)

[rickgeorges]

Of course you can. I am doing it right now. Click File history and advancd. Then create image. I have a 2 terabyte USB 3 western digital drive attached and I create images twice a week. Try plugging the drive directly into a USB port on the computer.