How to Back Up Before a Windows Update

☝️ Always back up before a Windows upgrade, update, or reinstall. Create a full system image backup of up your entire machine.

☝️ Protecting from update failures
Before any major Windows change, create a system image backup using an image backup tool. Place the backup on an external hard disk and save it until you're satisfied your system is working properly. If something goes wrong with the update, you can "undo" by restoring the image.

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Chapters
0:00 Back Up Before a Windows Update
0:46 A system image backup
1:15 When to take it
1:45 Why?
2:30 Making a system image backup
3:20 Put it on an external hard disk
4:00 Recovery: using your backup image

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