You also have the option of getting a little more hands-on by switching to Advanced mode. If you want, you can filter out certain types of file that you may not be interested in, and the final stages involve choosing the type of backup you'd like to create (full and compressed, or a byte for byte mirror), choosing whether the backup should be password protected, and then deciding whether to run the backup job manually or on an automatic schedule. There are a number of plugins bundled that you can use to backup various applications, and more can be downloaded and installed free of charge from within the program. FBackup can also be used to backup settings for a wide range of popular applications - everything from browsers and office suites to games and music software. The easiest option is to simply opt to backup all folders and files, but you can be a little more selective if you want to save space and speed things up. You start by selecting where you'd like to backup data - such as a local hard drive, network drive or location, or to the cloud (Google Drive and Dropbox are supported) - and then choose which folders you want to backup. The beauty of FBackup is that the entire configuration process is wizard-led. SyncBak is highly customisable and you can schedule automatic backups.FBackup is completely free of charge and for many people it will do everything they need. I use SyncBack from because it synchronises the external backup drive with the data drive and only copies across files that have changed since the last backup, this makes the backup process much faster. If, on the other hand, you are just looking to backup a data only disk or partition then a file-by-file product is the simplest. It also has a WinPE based stand-alone restore disk that gives you access to some basic Windows diagnostic and maintenance software (like chkdsk and diskpart etc.) as well as the disk image restore tool.
Macrium Reflect also allows you to mount a previous disk image as a virtual disk so that you can access files and folders within the image without having to restore it. I use the free version of Macrium Reflect for disk imaging, you can get it from.
These take a snapshot of the disk which can later be restored, this method avoids the "file locked by Windows" problem with other backup tools trying to backup a live Windows partition. just a C: drive) then a disk imaging product is what you need. If you have just one hard disk and one partition (ie.
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