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What is the best way to create an image of my laptop Windows 10?

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What type of image?

Being 20 something in the 70's was so much better than being 70 something in the insane 20's

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I think she means a backup?  I would recommend either Macrium reflect or EaseUS.  We have a special backup section in the forum with how tos.

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Yeah, I realized that after replying.

Being 20 something in the 70's was so much better than being 70 something in the insane 20's

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Check out Fred Langa’s postings either here in the Forums or go to https://langa.com/index.php/2018/09/06/a-reader-asks-fred-whats-your-current-recommendation-for-backups/ and read what he does. Some of it may be overkill for your needs but you’ll get a good idea of the different strategies you can use to not only create your image, but als preserving any important data you might have.

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The best way is to buy an external USB hard disk, not SSD, with at least twice the capacity of your existing data (used space).
Install a 3rd party backup app, free or otherwise.
Connect the USB drive and make an image backup to it.
Get a USB stick >4GB and make it a bootable recovery stick using the backup app.
Test you can boot from USB stick and read the backup file on the external HDD.

You will have room for at least 2 independent backups on that disk, or you can make incrementals after the first backup to allow restore to a particular point.

Store the USB HDD and stick in a safe place away from the laptop – if you lose one you don’t want to lose the other as well.

See this post for tests of free backup software.
VeraCrypt and Backup

cheers, Paul

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