I have a Lenovo notebook which I have to send to the manufacturer for repair.
In the notebook have a two hard drives installed:
1x SSD hard drive 100GB (drive C. With operating system Windows 10, all programs, individual settings and very few private data
1x SATA hard drive 1TB (drive D. With all private data, photos, videos, etc. (no programs)
Of course, before I send it to the manufacturer I would like to completely flatten the notebook for privacy reasons. I had thought of an image backup of a current state of the entire drive C:. There are also many individual settings and I do not want to reinstall all the programs when I get the notebook out of the repair.
Now I have the following questions for you:
1. Is an image backup with Windows funds or third-party programs recommended?
2. Is with an image backup of C: \ also all private data secured which for example under C: \ Users \ xxx \ lie?
3. On the second hard drive (D. Are only data, photos, etc. Which I could basically copy away manually. Would it still be possible to include them in the image backup?
This works fine with this tool: https://www.giga.de/...very-free/ The images should then be copied to an external 2TB USB hard drive. Then this tool also creates a USB boot stick with which you can then restore the backed up images from the external hard drive again. Then everything is available again.
I always use the program 'Mini Tool Partition Wizard' '. This allows me to directly clone the entire hard drive / SSD to another.
The Paragon software is in my experience recommendable and solid.
However, I find that Acronis True Image has a simpler user interface. But that is certainly a matter of taste.
So I have had very good experiences with the program Acronis True Image.
Definitely worth your money.
