.... "CD-RW/DVD-RW Drive for Bootable Media Creation" ... they are becoming rare, PCs, laptops who have a CD-RW/DVD-RW drive, let alone PCs/ Laptops are sold that have an optical drive. This PC has no optical drive!

Adam Howell  –  10 months ago  –  Vond je deze reactie nuttig? ja | nee (-16)

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Adam Howell, I bought an external CD/DVD drive for backup use and for viewing my older backups from before the days of cheap USB drives.

Adam Howell, I bought an external CD/DVD drive for backup use and for viewing my older backups from before the days of cheap USB drives.
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Bill  –  10 months ago  –  Vond je deze reactie nuttig? ja | nee (+12)

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"CD-RW/DVD-RW Drive for Bootable Media Creation" ... they are becoming rare"

Cases are still available with slots for optical drives, adapters to connect optical drives via USB start around $15 - $20 on Amazon [& they work], and while more expensive nowadays, there are several brands of laptop optical drives in thin external housings that use USB. One possible advantage of booting to optical media is that with many motherboards they'll automatically switch to legacy booting, skipping UEFI. Otherwise ISOs are handy if you want to use something like Rufus or Ventoy to add one or more bootable ISOs to a single USB stick or drive.

"I heard that Windows 11 can also make backups "

Win11 [& Win10] includes Windows Backup from Win7. It works, doing *basically* the same thing as Backupper, with fewer features. Creating a bootable USB stick *that works* with UEFI & Secure Boot however can be challenging.

<i>"CD-RW/DVD-RW Drive for Bootable Media Creation" ... they are becoming rare"</i> Cases are still available with slots for optical drives, adapters to connect optical drives via USB start around $15 - $20 on Amazon [& they work], and while more expensive nowadays, there are several brands of laptop optical drives in thin external housings that use USB. One possible advantage of booting to optical media is that with many motherboards they'll automatically switch to legacy booting, skipping UEFI. Otherwise ISOs are handy if you want to use something like Rufus or Ventoy to add one or more bootable ISOs to a single USB stick or drive. <i>"I heard that Windows 11 can also make backups "</i> Win11 [& Win10] includes Windows Backup from Win7. It works, doing *basically* the same thing as Backupper, with fewer features. Creating a bootable USB stick *that works* with UEFI & Secure Boot however can be challenging.
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mike  –  10 months ago  –  Vond je deze reactie nuttig? ja | nee (+9)

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uninstall, Adam Howell, if PC still starts and then does not give a signal, you would probably have selected a screen resolution that your screen cannot handle. PC does not start at all, probably food.
That wasn't the problem! That PC had a 128 GB PCIE M.2 SSD and has experienced an electricity failure twice. That type of SSD cannot stand that. The storage capacity then deteriorates. At the latter, the storage capacity was only 70% and then "no signal". I still have the AMD Ryzen 5 2400G CPU/GPU and the two memory slats. That PC itself, scrap.

uninstall, <i> Adam Howell, if PC still starts and then does not give a signal, you would probably have selected a screen resolution that your screen cannot handle. PC does not start at all, probably food. </i> That wasn't the problem! That PC had a 128 GB PCIE M.2 SSD and has experienced an electricity failure twice. That type of SSD cannot stand that. The storage capacity then deteriorates. At the latter, the storage capacity was only 70% and then "no signal". I still have the AMD Ryzen 5 2400G CPU/GPU and the two memory slats. That PC itself, scrap.
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Adam Howell  –  10 months ago  –  Vond je deze reactie nuttig? ja | nee (+8)

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Backupper is a very nice disk image backup app with one rather glaring fault -- the bootable USB sticks you create in Backupper don't work for systems using UEFI & Secure Boot. The GUI is not confusing, and unlike many competing apps, it lets you access all the necessary features you may need -- sadly many backup apps try so hard to make the software idiot proof that you can't do the stuff you need a backup app for in the first place. With Macrium Reflect Free no longer supported [though it still works, for now] I suggest DiskGenius for a free alternative:

diskgenius.com/

diskgenius.com/editions.php

There is a portable version, and both the app & its bootable USB sticks work for me with UEFI & Secure Boot, but they cram so much functionality into the software that to me at least the GUI is a bit confusing. Because of that I bought O&O DiskImage Pro. It does pretty much everything Macrium Reflect does, has decent support, and is often on sale for very good prices -- I paid $25 for 5 PCs. An important Note: Microsoft is hardening the security of Windows boot files -- it's available now but won't be mandatory till later this year. Right now no WinPE USB sticks will boot with the hardening applied -- Microsoft plans to engineer a fix for WinPE before rolling out the update to everyone. It's important that, whatever backup software you use, it has good support, because the devs will have to update their software or it won't work once that security update hits.

Backupper Background [FWIW]...
I tried their bootable USB sticks on multiple PCs/laptops, tried separately running the app on their USB stick & from the folder for WinPE in the program's folder with a generic Microsoft WinPE USB stick, tried including their app in a freshly build WinPE image, tried the bootable ISO [for DVDs] with Rufus to create a bootable USB stick, and nothing worked. I either got an error on booting, or when I got the app to run, it could not find / see any hard disk partitions.

mike  –  10 months ago  –  Vond je deze reactie nuttig? ja | nee (+11)

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I have the latest version, and I really like it. The interface is straightforward and easy to follow, step by step. It has a small monitoring program that is always active. I set it for nighttime, and it will shut off the computer after it finishes. If you set it for an incremental backup and run an extra one during the daytime, the program will monitor the speed of backing up, when the computer is active, and slow down the backing-up process. Then it will go faster when you step away from the keyboard for any length of time.

Rick_S  –  10 months ago  –  Vond je deze reactie nuttig? ja | nee (+7)

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