Chapter 16. Backup, restore, and recovery

An overview of Windows 10 backup and recovery options

Using File History to protect files and folders

Using the Reset option to recover from serious problems

Creating and using a recovery drive

Creating and restoring a system image backup

Configuring system protection options

In the Unabridged Edition of Murphy’s Law, you’ll find an entire chapter of corollaries that apply to computers in general and your important data files in particular. Murphy says, “Anything that can go wrong will go wrong.” That’s certainly true of storage devices, where it’s not a matter of whether they’ll fail but when. When a hard drive fails catastrophically or a solid-state drive (SSD) suddenly becomes unreadable, any data ...

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