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I need to restore to an earlier time to possibly solve a problem. But I don't want to lose the system restore point I just manually created of the present state so I can return to it if necessary. So I want to copy the recent restore point to my data partition to find and use it if necessary. Where do I find it and how would I restore from it.
Thanks.
 

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CuriousOne said:
I need to restore to an earlier time to possibly solve a problem. But I don't want to lose the system restore point I just manually created of the present state so I can return to it if necessary. So I want to copy the recent restore point to my data partition to find and use it if necessary. Where do I find it and how would I restore from it.
Thanks.
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I have successfully used System Restore frequently over many years and from my experience the system will automatically create an additional restore point to allow the user to revert back to the point before any restore operation. I hope that makes sense.

If you have multiple restore points I don't know if you can carve out any single one to store somewhere else.
 

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  • OS
    windows 8.1 64, LT -Windows 10 Home 64
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    HP 500-075 Desktop + HP 15-f018dx Laptop
    CPU
    Intel Core i5 3470 Ivy Bridge 3.2 GHz Quad Core/ LT - i3-4030U 1.9 GHz
    Motherboard
    Foxcon Joshua-H61-uATX
    Memory
    8 GB/ LT - 6GB
    Graphics Card(s)
    Intel Graphics Media Accelerator HD (DX10.1)
    Sound Card
    Integrated IDT 92HD73E
    Hard Drives
    1T HDD, 16G Sandisk Cache Drive, 2T Seagate 3.0 External
    Keyboard
    Wireless
    Mouse
    Wireless
    Browser
    IE11
    Antivirus
    Norton 360
    Other Info
    CyberPower UPS, Macrium Backup, Revo Pro, Malwarebytes Premium
Restore Points are like a Diff mechanism. It does no good to try to save them up. That's why backup programs just skip over them. But as gator mentioned, after you do a restore there will be a new Restore Point that is usually named Restore Operation or something similar. That is for an undo.

Instead of relying too much on Restore Points there are many high quality free imaging programs you can use to image your system to an external drive. Macrium Reflect is a good one. You can find a list of free ones here:
Free Hard Disk Backup and Restore, Hard Disk Image and Cloning Utilities (thefreecountry.com)

Edit: Make sure the disk imaging software can handle UEFI/GPT systems. Otherwise you can mess your system up totally if you restore with a program that still thinks all systems are MBR based.
 

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  • OS
    Windows 8.0 x64
    Computer type
    Laptop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    Toshiba Satelite C55D-A Laptop
    CPU
    AMD EI 1200
    Memory
    4 gb DDR3
    Graphics Card(s)
    Raedon 340 MB dedicated Ram
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Built in
    Screen Resolution
    1366 x 768
    Hard Drives
    640 GB (spinner) Sata II
    Keyboard
    Built in
    Mouse
    Touch pad
Thank you both. I do have both macrium and acronis 2014. I just thought it would be faster with system restore, but I'll use one of the imaging tools.
Thanks
*How do I find out if my system even uses UEFI/GPT?
 

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CuriousOne said:
*How do I find out if my system even uses UEFI/GPT?
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Control Panel/Administrative Tools/System Information

Look at BIOS Mode

I can attest that Macrium works great, have been using it for a couple of years with UEFI. Although I have not used it, Acronis will work as well but my preference is Macrium.
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    windows 8.1 64, LT -Windows 10 Home 64
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    HP 500-075 Desktop + HP 15-f018dx Laptop
    CPU
    Intel Core i5 3470 Ivy Bridge 3.2 GHz Quad Core/ LT - i3-4030U 1.9 GHz
    Motherboard
    Foxcon Joshua-H61-uATX
    Memory
    8 GB/ LT - 6GB
    Graphics Card(s)
    Intel Graphics Media Accelerator HD (DX10.1)
    Sound Card
    Integrated IDT 92HD73E
    Hard Drives
    1T HDD, 16G Sandisk Cache Drive, 2T Seagate 3.0 External
    Keyboard
    Wireless
    Mouse
    Wireless
    Browser
    IE11
    Antivirus
    Norton 360
    Other Info
    CyberPower UPS, Macrium Backup, Revo Pro, Malwarebytes Premium
CuriousOne said:
Thank you both. I do have both macrium and acronis 2014. I just thought it would be faster with system restore, but I'll use one of the imaging tools.
Thanks
*How do I find out if my system even uses UEFI/GPT?
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If you hit hotkey Winkey x then in the Menu, Disk Management. If you right click on Disk 0 then click Properties and click Volume Tab it will say Guid Partition Table GPT.
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8.0 x64
    Computer type
    Laptop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    Toshiba Satelite C55D-A Laptop
    CPU
    AMD EI 1200
    Memory
    4 gb DDR3
    Graphics Card(s)
    Raedon 340 MB dedicated Ram
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Built in
    Screen Resolution
    1366 x 768
    Hard Drives
    640 GB (spinner) Sata II
    Keyboard
    Built in
    Mouse
    Touch pad
CuriousOne said:
Thank you.
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On these forums they use a "reputation" system as a thank you. If a post was helpful just click the Thumbs Up icon at the bottom of the post.

Glad we could be helpful. I know how it is to get to the hair ripping stage at times. :)
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8.0 x64
    Computer type
    Laptop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    Toshiba Satelite C55D-A Laptop
    CPU
    AMD EI 1200
    Memory
    4 gb DDR3
    Graphics Card(s)
    Raedon 340 MB dedicated Ram
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Built in
    Screen Resolution
    1366 x 768
    Hard Drives
    640 GB (spinner) Sata II
    Keyboard
    Built in
    Mouse
    Touch pad
Fwiw
I'm using Tapatalk on my android phone to access this forum. Tapatalk has the thanks/thumbs up icon available on most forums it accesses but for some reason it does not appear on this forum. Maybe the forum owner did not implement it in Tapatalk.
 
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