![]() ![]() The days of spending hours performing Windows 7 updates after reinstalling Windows are long gone. You can also try just resetting Windows, which does sometimes work. Not everyone needs to back up their PC, laptop, or tablet – if all you use are apps from Windows Store, and/or if you mainly just work online, without many apps and games installed, reinstalling everything nowadays isn’t so bad. Disk partition image backup software however backs up the contents of the hard disk(s) / SSD(s) used by your PCs, laptops, & tablets, so if something bad happens, you can put everything back the way it was. ![]() ![]() Lots, maybe most of that stuff is often stored in the cloud, e.g., OneDrive &/or Google Photos, as soon as it’s created. Everyone should back up their data – their personal files like important documents, receipts, photos etc. That's fine when it works, but it doesn't always work - the Recovery partition can be damaged or just not work, or Windows might not know its GUID, or it might not be enabled in Windows etc. Running in a Win11 VM it did not appear to download the needed files from what I could tell using Task Mgr., which would mean it likely uses the files stored on Windows Recovery partition. One potential problem creating bootable USB sticks with ShadowMaker, is that unlike other backup apps I've tried, you don't get an option to download WinPE from Microsoft. ![]() I can confirm however, that the simple fix for Backupper works here too: rename a copy of C:\Windows\ Boot\ EFI\ bootmgfw.efi to boot圆4.efi and replace that file on the USB stick. It is possible to turn Secure Boot off, but why would you want or need to? You use software designed to suit you - not the other way around. Like AOMEI Backupper & EaseUS ToDo backup apps, the bootable USB stick you create with ShadowMaker will not work on the majority of current systems, those with UEFI BIOS and using Secure Boot. If you can use the included 3 licenses then ShadowMaker Pro may be a better value, though again you can do better price wise when O&O DiskImage multipacks go on sale. If you only have a single Windows PC, laptop, or tablet to backup, IMHO you're better off with Macrium Reflect for about the same price as the perpetual license. It's not cheap & with a 6 month license you'll want/need to buy it when that's up. ShadowMaker is a disk partition image backup app that is also capable of file sync. ![]()
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