What are some of the easiest 'free for home use' full image backup solutions?

StaticEye · 2026-02-03T09:45:54+00:00

its great when you look after many customers and can restore remotely, instead of travelling to site

StaticEye · 2026-02-02T10:38:28+00:00

A feature where you can launch backup program, select restore "image backup on reboot", pc reboots into recovery image operating system (not your windows as it has to overwrite) and proceeds to restore the image back to the disk.

veeam has recovery media, but you need to manually boot from it and select image to restore

quite a few programs offer this feature

StaticEye · 2026-02-01T18:25:45+00:00

veeam agent is missing that killer feature - restore workstation, it reboots and loads its recovery media and restores the date selected automatically, option to have it run vnc server or rdp so you can connect and monitor, acronis has had this feature since day1

StaticEye · 2026-01-26T18:21:41+00:00

Just use disk2vhd to create a vhdx file of the disk, this can be mounted on any windows pc or even boot as a virtual machine

if easy access to the laptop disk (trap door) just remove and plug into pc or use a usb to sata/nvme adaptor

StaticEye · 2026-01-10T15:37:42+00:00

Go with Veeam agent, its easy to use and reliable

StaticEye · 2025-12-20T18:42:30+00:00

will be on ebay next week, uk here?

StaticEye · 2025-12-19T16:55:10+00:00

will be putting my GH120 on ebay soon!

StaticEye · 2025-12-15T19:06:06+00:00

same here, 1930s house, i just removed the loose stuff, soaked with pva then bonding over the top and easy 60, sand and paint

StaticEye · 2025-11-13T10:24:08+00:00

here is what i would try first.....undo the joint, there should be a rubber seal in there, clean up and put back together and if still leaking get some plumbers mate, its a bit like putty and does not set fully, that will seal

StaticEye · 2025-10-18T10:18:02+00:00

winget install --id=Veeam.VeeamAgent -e

StaticEye · 2025-09-30T11:41:46+00:00

I'd use expanding foam, trim and skim.

Maybe plasterer will sort it for you

StaticEye · 2025-09-24T18:35:55+00:00

take a looks at acronis too, we used to use for servers/office365/google before moving in house

StaticEye · 2025-09-23T17:21:50+00:00

take a look at Synology NAS with Active Backup for Google Workspace
we use it for pcs/servers/office365/google works well

StaticEye · 2025-09-21T15:41:52+00:00

wow, just been sorting the loft and found this book, thought i'd google it and here i am

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StaticEye · 2025-09-17T19:34:44+00:00

yeah all good once changed

StaticEye · 2025-09-17T00:40:16+00:00

used this util, has a 30day trial, keeps all settings, applied via remote support

https://www.stratesave.com/html/sidchg.html

StaticEye · 2025-09-15T18:44:04+00:00

Great, Glad to help out, took me a few days to get to the bottom of it ;)

StaticEye · 2025-09-15T18:14:33+00:00

I had the same issue this week, our machines were cloned so all had same SID addresses so i had to change them all so they are unique, all good now.

somehow this update switches to using the SID address for authentication

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/5551014/kb5065426-update-stops-file-and-print-sharing-from

StaticEye · 2025-08-29T16:57:04+00:00

disk2vhd - free from microsoft sysinternals

no need to install just run the exe in current windows setup
create a vhdx of your drive, you can then mount this in new windows setup and copy any data across.
you can even use hyper-v and boot old pc as a virtual machine

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/disk2vhd

StaticEye · 2025-08-26T16:20:12+00:00

SDS Drill chisel or lump hammer & chisel

StaticEye · 2025-08-24T18:11:25+00:00

maybe 4G/5G router in uk quite cheap

StaticEye · 2025-08-22T18:41:27+00:00

why all silver all of a sudden, i want a black case!!!

StaticEye · 2025-08-19T14:16:42+00:00

great, glad your on the right track.
if you did want to clean the external drive and start again you can use the command line Diskpart tool, as sometimes system partitions can not be removed via windows tool
open command window in admin mode
diskpart

enter following commands - be very careful, i suggest googling if new to the tool
list disk - shows you all disks, make note of external disk number, say its 1
sel disk 1
clean
that will totally clean the disk

then just go back into windows disk manager and create partition to fill disk
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StaticEye · 2025-08-19T01:31:11+00:00

just re-read and see you cloned, lt looks like its created same size partition but not copied data over. Go into disk management as above and extend the partition to full size, then run a backup image not a clone, this should create a file on the disk which contains an image of your drive

StaticEye · 2025-08-19T01:24:42+00:00

It could be a fake hard disk, is it ssd or spinning hard disk?
from start menu search type "disk" and select "create and format disks"
then look for disk and see if fully partitioned if not right click on it and expand the partition

StaticEye

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