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HP Pavilion 15-au062nr
Microsoft Windows 10 (64-bit)

Is there a way to make a restore disk for my laptop.

 

 

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Hi,

 

Your machine came with Windows 10 Home pre-installed. Please use the following guide to create Recovery media (DVD's or USB)

 

    http://support.hp.com/au-en/document/c04758961

 

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@NiteLife

 

In terms of a single disk, no -- as Win10 takes up far too much room to fit on a single disk -- but you could do that with a USB stick.

 

I personally prefer to use third-party Recovery solutions as they tend to be both more flexible and more reliable than any built-in solutions.

Macrium Reflect (MR) provides a FREE version that can be used to image and restore partitions or entire drives: http://www.macrium.com/reflectfree.aspx

What I recommend is the following:
1) Download and install Macrium Reflect (MR)
2) Run MR and choose the option: "Create an image of the partition(s) required to backup and restore Windows" to write a full backup to an external drive or USB stick
3) Use the option to create a boot USB stick or CD

My experience is that MR, when using the High Compression option, typically can compress the saved image file to about 50% of the USED space in the OS partition. This means if you have an 80GB OS partition, and 40GB is used, MR only needs about 20GB to store the image file.

I use this all the time and it typically takes less than 10 minutes to do the image backup and about the same time or less to do a restore.

Plus, MR has the option to Add a Recovery Boot Menu entry. This allows you then to boot into WinRE, and you can then use that to do a restore -- when you can't boot into Windows!

NOW, you have the means to restore a full working system from the external drive or USB stick in only a few minutes.

Good Luck



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