Remember I said the restore would overwrite everything currently on your hard drive? EaseUS reminds you before continuing. You’ll be presented with a summary of what’s about to happen. Once again, note that drive letters may be different than what you normally see when running Windows.Ĭlick Next. In our example, that’s the first drive listed - Hard disk 0. You’ll then be taken to a dialog which displays the drives and partitions to which you might restore your image.Īll the hard disks known to your machine will be displayed, possibly including your external drive.Ĭheck the box next to the drive you’re restoring to. Most commonly, you’ll restore the entire hard disk (in the case of a hard disk replacement due to failure, for example), so we’ll check the Hard disk box. This allows you to choose to restore the entire disk image - by checking the box next to “Hard disk 0”, in my example - or unchecking that box and selecting individual partitions within the image instead. Next, you’ll be shown a dialog displaying the disks and partitions contained within the image you’ve selected. Once you’ve selected the appropriate image file to restore, click OK. You’ll need to look at the drive’s name (“BackupDrive”, in my case), and its contents to confirm you’re looking at the correct drive. In my case, my external drive is normally drive “E:”, but when booting from the emergency disk, it appears as drive “D:”. It’s worth noting that the drive letters you see may be different than what you normally see in Windows. Unless you know otherwise, you generally want the most recent backup image. Yours will be named differently, and there may be multiple files. The file “Disk_0_20170810_full_v1.pbd” is the image file I want to restore. Disk 0 – to open the folder containing that image.BackupDrive (D:) – to open my external drive, which contains the backup image I want.Computer – to open the devices available on my computer.In the example above, I’ve navigated through: Navigate to the drive and folder which contains your image backup by clicking on the appropriate triangles to the left of each listed item. This will open a file-selection dialog box. On its opening screen, click on Browse to Recover to begin the restoration process. Locate the imageīooting from the emergency disk automatically runs EaseUS Todo. In other cases, most notably newer machines with UEFI and Secure Boot, the process is more complex. In some cases, it’s a simple choice made at boot time. Check the instructions for your specific computer to learn how to boot from the emergency disk (CD/DVD or USB) you created earlier. Unfortunately, exactly how to boot from an emergency disk varies from machine to machine. I’ll call it “Step Zero” - prior to performing the restore, if you can, save any data that hasn’t been backed up. You’ll simply restore the most recent image you have. Of course, if “what happened” was a hard drive failure and replacement, you may not have a choice. On the other hand, if you did important work on Tuesday and Wednesday you don’t want to lose, you’ll want to save that work somehow: you could copy the new files elsewhere, or create a new image backup prior to restoring the old one. If “what happened” was a malware infection, then that’s conceivably exactly what we want. Everything that happened on Tuesday and Wednesday would be lost. If you took an image backup on Monday, and it’s now Wednesday, restoring Monday’s image backup will overwrite everything on the hard disk, and your machine will be as it was at the time of that backup. Top-to-bottom, end-to-end, Backing Up In Windows 10 will walk you through all the steps you need to keep your data safe, using Windows 10's built-in tools, as well as a free alternative. This article is excerpted from Backing Up In Windows 10, available now.
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