Billie, The following is what you want:- Windows > Update & Security > Back up using File History Backup your files to another drive and restore them if the originals are lost, damaged, or deleted. Automatically back up my files ... slider to ON also check - More Options [how often, what folders/files etc..] ... below above is:- Looking for an older backup? If you created a backup using the Windows 7 Backup and Restore tool, it'll still work in Windows 10. check out item below - Go to Backup and Restore (Windows 7) ... so your system image DVDs will still be valid. Barry --------------- On Mon, 10 Aug 2015 14:55:21 +1200, Billie Walsh via <[email protected]> wrote: > A hidden feature of Windows 7 is the creation of a system restore set of > DVD's. create system restore DVD set in windows 7. A short while back my > computer popped up a message that the hard drive was dying. Not a > pleasant prospect. A little research on th web found that Windows 7 will > create a system image that can be used to completely reinstall your > system. It took 8 DVD's for my computer. > > Start > Maintenance > Backup and Restore > Create System Image > > Can someone follow a similar path in 10 and see if there is something > similar. Google doesn't turn up anything.

Also a good idea, but not what I needed at that particular point. When I got the message that my hard drive was dying I immediately copied off all my critical stuff to another drive. The problem was reinstalling everything to another drive. For that I needed a system restore set of DVD's, or as it worked out, a way to clone the new drive with the old one. We found a device that would clone one drive to another of equal size or larger, I believe on Amazon. It's named Aukey, that's the only name on it. It has two SATA drive "slots" that will accept 3.5 or 2.5 inch drives [ desktop and laptop ]. Plug it in, put the source drive in it's slot and the new one in the "target" slot, turn it on, push the clone button and go away for a couple hours, minimum. There are four LED lights that flash in sequence. As the cloning is completed each one will light solid as an indication of how far along the process is. When the last one is solid the clone is complete. Put the new drive in the computer and fire it up.The box can also be used as a "drop in" external drive housing with your computer by USB cable. With my new cloned drive installed everything was back to normal and operating just like before. Without a device to clone the drive I could have installed my system with the image set created off the old drive. About all I use that computer for is video editing shows for the TV station. We buy a terrabyte drive every year to load all the shows on as a "library" for the station. I just copied the shows off the computer onto that drive before it died completely. We can, so far, load all the syndicated shows for an entire year on one drive with room left over. At the station there is a room lined floor to ceiling with 3/4 inch numatic tape cassettes, think giant VHS cartidges, that can't hold near that much programming. All my genealogy and websites are on a second drive in my Kubuntu Linux computer. Also, backed up to an external drive. All the FTP information for my websites are "cloned" to my laptop as well as my address book and with Firefox's Synch feature I don't lose bookmarks between all my computers. On 08/09/2015 10:34 PM, Barry Carlson via wrote: > Billie, > > The following is what you want:- > > Windows > Update & Security > Back up using File History > > Backup your files to another drive and restore them if the originals are > lost, damaged, or deleted. > > Automatically back up my files > > ... slider to ON > > also check - More Options [how often, what folders/files etc..] > > ... below above is:- > > Looking for an older backup? > > If you created a backup using the Windows 7 Backup and Restore tool, it'll > still work in Windows 10. > > check out item below - > > Go to Backup and Restore (Windows 7) > > ... so your system image DVDs will still be valid. > > Barry > --------------- > > On Mon, 10 Aug 2015 14:55:21 +1200, Billie Walsh via > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> A hidden feature of Windows 7 is the creation of a system restore set of >> DVD's. create system restore DVD set in windows 7. A short while back my >> computer popped up a message that the hard drive was dying. Not a >> pleasant prospect. A little research on th web found that Windows 7 will >> create a system image that can be used to completely reinstall your >> system. It took 8 DVD's for my computer. >> >> Start > Maintenance > Backup and Restore > Create System Image >> >> Can someone follow a similar path in 10 and see if there is something >> similar. Google doesn't turn up anything. > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > -- A cat is a puzzle with no solution. Cats are tiny little women in fur coats. When you get all full of yourself try giving orders to a cat. _ _... ..._ _ _._ ._ ..... ._.. ... .._