Most of us here, know the value of backups, and some of us, do backups regularly. I just proved to myself--as if I didn't already know--how important this is.



I do backups to an external hard drive, weekly. Yesterday, thinking about installing W11, on my secondary ssd, I got careless, during the install, when it came to formatting and partitioning the drive, I accidentally formatted, the wrong drive, and totally lost my W10 installation. After a moment of complete panic, I powered up the external drive, and booted from my Aomei Backupper, flash drive. It took well over an hour, but a 100% restoration was achieved.



I consider myself, fairly computer literate, so I have no excuses for my error. I just want to bring this to folk's attention, as a reminder.

> so I have no excuses for my error

You do have that one (very good) excuse - you're human .


And yes, good thing for backups.
(Hopefully you have enough of them, & stored in diverse places...)

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I use Backupper AND Reflect, weekly, in case one of them fails. Backupper is paid version, in case I wish to restore to different hardware.

Been there. Done that.

AOMEI Backupper is great - if only it would console you that everything will be alright and play soothing music while it works its magic during what can seem the longest hour of your life.

Jim.

If you're only going to restore to the same computer, the free edition is all you need.

Yes, I kind of held my breath, when I rebooted, after the Restore.