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How to create System Image in Windows 10As a student attending college, I have a lot of assignments and documents I need to keep track of. I also have a fear of losing everything due to a corrupt disk or file. This article will help explain and show you how to create a system image in Windows 10. Unlike the automated restore point feature, a system image is an exact snapshot of your entire Windows installation, including app settings and data. This means that with a full system image backup on standby, you'll always be able to get your computer back to exactly the way it was—no matter what critical failure caused an issue in the first place. Before you begin, the process of creating a system image backup requires that you have a place to store the image. Preferably, you should have either a secondary hard drive with plenty of storage space attached to your computer directly or over a network, a large enough USB drive or memory card, or a set of blank DVDs and a disc drive that is capable of burning or writing media.For a fourth option, you can repartition your primary hard drive to create the storage space needed for a system image backup. This option is less than ideal, however, because the system image will be stored on the same physical hard drive as your Windows installation, which means that if the hard drive fails, you would lose both your Windows install?and?your backup image.Creating a System Image backupWe can start by pressing the Windows button and type in file history and press enter.From the window that pops up next, click the "System Image Backup" button in the bottom-left corner.Next up, look in the left-hand pane again, and select the option labeled "Create a system image."This first window is asking where you'd like to save your system image, and the options are hard disk, DVD, or network location. Select the storage location for your system image, then if you're saving to a hard drive or USB/memory card, use the drop-down menu to select your preferred drive.Your primary Windows drive and boot sector will already be selected, but if there are any other hard drives containing data that you would like to back up, select them here, then click "Next" again.If everything looks like it should, go ahead and click "Start backup." Depending on how many files and drives you selected, the backup process will take anywhere from 10 minutes to an hour or so.When the backup process is completed, you'll be asked if you'd like to create a system repair disc. This is purely optional, so you can skip this step if you'd like.With a system image backup now on standby, you can rest a lot easier knowing that if something ever happens to your Windows installation—be it hardware failure or software issues—you'll be able to get everything right back to normal in almost no time. ................
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