Anton Linecker shares his method for creating a system backup after he's set up a new system. He finds that it helps to get new systems set up quickly, and saves time getting back up in case ...

Making a full system image backup preserves not only your files, but Windows and all its settings as well. Here are the best free Windows backup and recovery tools with step-by-step instructions.

System Image Backup operation fails: Process cannot access file because it is being used by another process, Errors 0x807800C5 & 0x80070020.

By default the program will back up all your user folders, drives that aren’t serving as the destination for the backup, and create a full system image of any internal hard drives.

4] Prepare external drive to backup multiple system images By default, you can only create one system image on an external USB drive.

Your Windows OS is home to precious files you don't want to lose, so let’s go over how to create a backup, just in case Windows decides to call in sick.

Click Create a system image and select the target SSD to save the system image backup. Choose which drive to back up, confirm your backup settings, and press Start backup.