System Restore on new Windows 10 OS on same hard drive
Hello,
I need some advice about using Aomei System Restore.
Recently, my laptop became slow and unresponsive so I called a computer repair technician for help. They ran a diagnostic on my machine and told me the OS (Windows 10) was corrupted and that registry files were messed up. He told me he would have to format my hard drive and replace my OS which would mean I would lose all my data, programs and system settings.
Before this happened I managed to backup all my files using Aomei Backupper, using File Backup for my data and System Backup onto an external HD.
My question is: Can I restore my previously backed up system image onto the same hard drive that has been reinstalled with a new Windows 10 OS if I re-install the Aomei Backupper software?
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
I need some advice about using Aomei System Restore.
Recently, my laptop became slow and unresponsive so I called a computer repair technician for help. They ran a diagnostic on my machine and told me the OS (Windows 10) was corrupted and that registry files were messed up. He told me he would have to format my hard drive and replace my OS which would mean I would lose all my data, programs and system settings.
Before this happened I managed to backup all my files using Aomei Backupper, using File Backup for my data and System Backup onto an external HD.
My question is: Can I restore my previously backed up system image onto the same hard drive that has been reinstalled with a new Windows 10 OS if I re-install the Aomei Backupper software?
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
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Thanks for the advice and information. Just to clarify, my machine has not been formatted and a new OS installed yet, that was just the advice of the technician who has diagnosed my laptop. I asked him to hold off doing anything while I got more information here.
From what you said, it seems not be a wise move to restore a system image if a new OS is installed on my machine.
Again, just to clarify my situation, I noticed my laptop becoming unresponsive after a Windows update about a week ago, it was running fine up until then, I ran a virus and a malware scan and the results came out clean so I’m pretty certain it’s not a virus or malware affecting my machine. It got to the point where it would take a really long time to boot up my machine and when it did finally boot into Windows, it would freeze and hang to the point that I couldn’t do anything!
About a week prior to this, I made my latest File Backup and System Backup using Aomei Backup as mentioned in my previous post. However, I didn’t create a bootable USB drive as I have read about in the ‘How-to’s’ on the Aomei website and like what you have mentioned in your reply. I only read about this too late when my machine was too unresponsive to do so, and that is why I couldn’t get a chance to perform a System Restore with the bootable USB drive, otherwise I would have tried.
It was at this point, (a couple of days ago) that I called the Technician and gave him my machine to diagnose and fix. He told me the diagnosis today, that registry files were corrupted and then told me what he could do (format disk and install new OS).
In actuality, I really don’t want to go down this road, as I am a music producer and have lots of music programs and plugins that took me a long time to install, I really just want to have my system to how it was a few weeks ago when it was running fine (when I did my latest backups).
Tomorrow, I was thinking of asking the Technician if I could make a bootable USB drive from his computer (I read that the bootable USB could be made from any healthy computer and still work with my machine?) and use that to try and do a System Restore from the latest Backup I made a couple of weeks ago when my machine was running fine.
In your opinion, would this be a viable option to restore my laptop to a better state where it would work fine again without having to wipe my machine, etc.
Thanks for the help and apologies for the long winded explanation, I am new to Aomei and back up software in general so have a lot to learn!
From what you said about creating a rescue disk (that’s another term for a bootable USB drive, right?) from another computer to use with mine, I gathered that, in general, as long the other computer has the same kind of hardware as mine (which is Intel) it should probably work? That’s good to know! Thanks.
I’ll keep you updated how it all goes!