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Free Backup Software to Restore Your Hard Drive and Operating System

As computer users, your data may be at a high risk of data loss if your computer crashes, or suffers virus or any other disaster. To back up your whole PC, including the Operating System plus your data, applications, photos, videos, office documents, settings and everything is a best choice for your data security. We highly recommend you to try free backup software - EASEUS Todo Backup. Once there is a system failure and something wrong with your data or need to transfer your partition/disk to another, just restore the backup image and you are able to get the previous state of what you want.

How to restore with EASEUS Todo Backup?

If you have previously imaged your partition/disk with EASEUS Todo Backup, there are four cases when you want to restore backup image as below:

Case 1: Restore partition (s) on one disk

Case 2: Restore disk

Case 3: Restore partitions on multiple disks

Case 4: Restore MBR

Case 1: when you just need to restore your partition (s) on one disk, please do as the following steps: (In this case, suppose you want to restore the system drive C:)

1. Launch EASEUS Todo Backup and you will see a main board.

2. Click on "Restore" in the main window or select "Operation" -> "Restore" from the menu bar, tool bar or action panel to run Restore Data Wizard. Our product will scan and list all the existing partition(s) information in this step.

3. In this step, you need to select the backup archive you want to restore. Once you select an image, our product will show the comments and partition(s) contained in this image. Click "Next". Note: If there is a password protection when creating this image, you need to input the password firstly.

4. Select the partition you want to recover. Click "Next".

5. Choose a target partition or unallocated space. The target partition or unallocated should be equal or larger than the used space on source partition and the partition with the backup archives you are trying to restore cannot be selected as the target partition. Click "Next".

Note: If you perform restore to your target partition, all the data on the target partition will be destroyed and cannot be recovered

6. Select a partition type for the destination partition.

7. Specify the size and location. You can change it with the mouse in the graphical view or enter the exact values in the text boxes.

8. Assign a drive letter for the restored partition. Click "Next".

9. The operations are listed. Click "Proceed" to perform restore.

After all these steps, you will successfully restore your partitions.

Case 2: if you have backed up the whole disk and wanted to restore it, please follow the following steps:

1. Launch EASEUS Todo Backup and you will see a main board.

3. In this step, you need to select an image you want to restore. Once you select an image, our product will show the comments and partition(s) contained in this image. Click "Next". Note: If there is a password protection when creating this image, you need to input the password firstly.

4. Select the Disk you want to recover. Click "Next".

5. Select a destination disk to perform restore. Click "Next"

6. All operations will be listed. Click "Proceed" to start disk restore.

Note: All the partitions on the destination disk will be destroyed and cannot be recovered.

Case 3: if you have backed up partitions on multiple disks, you need to restore partition on one disk first and then restore partition on another disk. Restoring partitions on multiple disks at the same time is not available. Please follow the steps as below: (In this case, suppose you want to restore partition E: on disk 3 and partition G: on disk 4)

1. Launch EASEUS Todo Backup and you will see a main board.

4. Select one partition from one disk you need to restore. Click "Next"

5. Choose a target partition or unallocated space. The target partition or unallocated should be equal or more than the used space on source partition and the partition with the backup archives you are trying to restore cannot be selected as the target partition. Click "Next".

Note: If you perform restore to your target partition, all the data on the target partition will be destroyed and cannot be recovered

6. Select a partition type for the restored partition.

7. Specify the size and location. You can change it with the mouse in the graphical view or enter the exact values in the text boxes.

8. Assign a drive letter for the restored partition. Click "Next".

9. The operations are listed. Click "Proceed" to perform restore.

Then you will successfully restore partition E: on disk 3. After restoring partition E:, you can perform the same steps to restore your partition G: on disk 4.

Case 4: if there is something wrong with the MBR, you can choose to recover your MBR only by creating bootable CD. It will be much faster to fix your boot problem and save your time to reinstall Windows.

1. Create a bootable CD of EASEUS Todo Backup and boot from it.

2. Click on "Restore" in the main window or select "Operation" -> "Restore" from the menu bar, tool bar or action panel to run Restore Data Wizard. The drive letter will not be shown in the boot mode, you can judge the partition by its Label or contents.