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‎03-06-2018 11:07 PM

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@GJWright

Once you are activated ,updated by WU and good to go- I would suggest making a System Image backup to external usb hard drive. No going through this hassle again. Just boot with bootable media and restore the Image-even to a new hdd.

I like Macrium Reflect. The free version works fine. Macrium is fast in creating the image and also in restoring it. I can restore an image and be back up and running in less than an hour. It has a utilty to let you create bootable cd to boot from and restore an Image.

https://www.macrium.com/reflectfree

Another member swears by Aomei and will use nothing else:

https://www.backup-utility.com/features/create-system-image.html

 

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