As an 83 year-old engineer who learned DOS in the 1980s and loved Word Perfect, Lotus 1.2.3 and Netscape Navigator, I absolutely hate Windows 11. I spent several hours trying to figure out how to backup my new Dell laptop (that came with Windows 11 already installed) until I found your illuminating video that showed me the back door into backing it up.
But why the HELL is it hidden as a "back door"???? THIS is part of why I've told them to FK OFF and have switched to Apple IOS. REDICULOUS!!! Stop messing with my BRAIN, Microsoft!!
I'm in my late 60s and had spent an hour or more reading Microsoft's convoluted description on how to do this. Found other video's, useless, then this one, and got started in less than a minute! It is now backed up and unplugged, thanks to Jonathan!
@@MovingToAustralia-MikeBentley I had been in the same position until I'd seen Jonathan's video and now I'm backing up my pc with clear instructions and I've subscribed 👍
Thank you for this video. I am a senior citizen and not at all technical. I know nothing about computers. I had heard people should back up their computers. I had no idea how to do this until I found your video. You made it so simple to understand and did it at a pace I could follow. You explained it in a way that even an old lady like me with no computer knowledge can follow your instructions. Again thank you so very much!!
I am a 76 year old woman that has used computers since the later 1980s and I looked at half dozen videoes of how to backup my Windows 11 to my new WD Elements External Hard Drive (as nothing comes with instructions any more) and your video was the only one that was clear, concise and easy to use. None of the other videoes mentioned the backdoor to the download. I not only understood everything you said but I thoroughly enjoyed watching it. Thank you for your brillant video!!!
one of the best technology related explanations I have ever seen online. clear , short , detailed and work well with slow people like me. just subscribed
Excellent instructions. So frustrating that Microsoft has chosen to conflate "syncing" with "backing up". Your tutorial completely cleared things up for me. Also frustrationg the Microsoft chose to bury the backup utility in the old Control Panel.
Microsoft is obsessed with "syncing" - apparently it's what every teenager was born to want to do. It has messed up one drive (use google drive instead) because of this stupid teenage obsession.
They basically expect everyone to work at microsoft or another IT firm with top notch connection and speeds while "people" in the countryside can just keep hammering away at their manual typewriters, butter churns and axes
I've been a PC user since their inception. Yes - I'm old, but very tech savvy. The biggest issue I had with something that should be so simple during 3 decades of computer usage?: The backup of windows 11 to an external drive. Searched online All Over and found the best answer how to do that: Mr. Jonathan Edwards and this video. If you're searching for an answer how to backup WIN 11 to an external drive, go no further. Best process explanation on the internet. Thx Jonathan!
Thank you so much! I was getting so frustrated with Windows 11 not letting me to do a backup to my external HD and could not find the option to do it. You made it so easy.
YOU ARE THE MAN! THANK YOU, THANK YOU! I watched this other bozo for 45 minutes. Having to rewind and play it several times to try to follow his method. It was madness so I just gave up. Then I found you and was able to back up my entire computer in the few minutes that you explained it. YOU ROCK! THANK YOU!
Jonathan - thank you so much for preparing this video. Microsoft 11 is driving me crazy! Regarding the backup, the only issue was that when selecting to allow the system to decide what to backup, it did not backup ANY of my documents. So, I did the backup as recommended by the system and then did a second pass with my selected files. Finally, I got everything I need.
Thank you Jonathan. I searched U tube for this and after many tutorials, found yours. Yours is the most comprehensive as well as easy to follow. You got a new subscriber now. Thanks again!
Thank you so much. Spent way too much time trying to find the answer on my own. Shame on you Microsoft for burying this feature. Must be because they want you to increase your OneDrive storage plan.
Thanks for the video man. I had done back ups before on windows 11 but it had been a long time since and recently bought a new hdd as my old one was failing so figuring out how to get to the correct backup (kept taking me to the one drive syncing bit) was frustrating as hell whereas your video was quick and concise on the issue and allowed me to actually do a proper system backup without issue.
Thank you for your effort. I was thinking for nearly 2 months about which backup software I should find to do this backup job. I admit this video well help me a lot. My windows 11 hard drive is about 👉250 GBs👈 ..Imagine how big is my data. It takes me around 2-3 days to setup windows and other applications. All I can say is THANK YOU very very much.
I tried ten other videos that were worthless, including the well-capitalized drive manufacturer, and your video was the only one that was accurate succinct and clear. Carry on, good sir!
Hi Jonathon. As someone who recently experienced a catastrophic computer crash and lost a lot of data, I found your video very clear and helpful. Having learnt my lesson I intend to set the backup for my new computer as you illustrated. I noticed however, that during the process there was an item to restore a failed computer using this backup. Have you, or are you able to demonstrate this next critical step? Many Thanks
Just bought a Western Digital "My Passport" hard drive and followed your instruction... PERFECT! Thanks so much for posting this Jonathan, you made my life much easier...
Thank you so much! I spent an embarrassingly long time trying (and failing) to figure this out until I found your video. You made the process so quick and simple, what a lifesaver.
Thank you sooo much...I just spent too long reading people telling me to back up through the back up system. You made this so easy for someone who isn't tech savvy
Thank you for the knowledge. I took a year break to learn the new fangled music recording software and settled on the Studio One DAW. The year break has been 6 years now and I have been self medicating with the music and it’s been the most sustained creative streak I’ve ever had. But I have only just started mastering the 539 songs into albums which is another learning curve with Distrokid and mastering for streaming and then my computer starts making a weird noise and I’ve been thinking I have the files on my external hard drive for the DAW but thousands of hours of settings would be lost... and by the looks of this rambling comment I may have been about to lose it, now I’m back in control 😎
Thank you so much for this. I was searching and found so many other videos talking around the issue instead of explaining and showing how to properly accomplish this task. You rock!
Thanks for posting this! I find it so annoying that Microsoft is pretty much forcing people into OneDrive. I mean, average folks are not going to be able to look up and execute this solution. Glad they haven't completely taking this option away.
thanks for this. easy and straight forward. watched once last week, ordered a external hard drive from Amazon and watching again now. back up is in progress. something is wrong with my windows application so I have to reinstall it - which means wiping the hard drive. at least now I have a back up. next video I will look for is how to get the data from the external drive back on the computer. left a like and will will subscribe. thanks again.
Thank you for the tutorial. I was going nuts trying to back up an external hard drive. Love to back up to 3 different places always have a plan you know.
This is the ONLY video that helped me. Every other video did nothing. I didn’t even have the options that they showed. Also, all of the online information to read through was not helpful. It took me to the first section you mentioned (that we excited out of). THANK YOU!!
Bien explicado. En España decimos "ir al grano". Fácil de hacer. Sin engorrosas y largas explicaciones que solo hacen confundir, a mayor gloria y satisfacción del "explicador". Desde España, gracias Jonathan. Bien hecho.
Thank you!! That was the best clear and helpful instruction video ever. Windows 11 is definitely not an improvement. I've been so frustrated searching all over my computer for this info. I'm now backed up and very happy. Thanks again👍
Hi Jonathan ~ Can't thank you enough for this super-clear and helpful walk-through to backing up my computer. You're the best computer guy on the internet, hands down. Rock on!!
Jonathan: Just found you after 'an issue' and I'd like to thank you for this video! I'm not completely ignorant with computers, but I'm not a specialist in IT, either. I appreciate your info, clearly delivered and understandable - with options! Cheers!
Johnathan thanks for your easy to understand video on Windows backup. Do you have one for restore as well? If not, it would be great to know how to restore from a full crash. Also can you do a partial restore (for example all the pdf files in my documents folder) from the recommended restore or do you need to do a different type of file by file backup?
Thank you very much, Mr Edwards. That made it very straightforward, as your videos invariably do, thanks to the great care you obviously take. (Your diction is very good, too.)
There are so many videos with comments saying "oh this helped so much" when the video did not help AT ALL, so this video was a nice surprise! Thank you :)
Brilliant video - many thanks. Question Can I put multiple copies ("Let Windows Choose" option) on the same external Hard Drive ? either from the same computer or a second computer without overwriting the original?
Great video, all the other videos on this subject are about continuing back ups through the cloud, most people don't want this they want a single back up created once every few months or whenever something new gets put on their lap top. Nice job, I will subscribe to show my support.
Great video, Jonathan! Question for you. When you unplug your external drive and plug it back in another time, do you have to reconfigure the scheduling job each time? Or, will Windows recognize it and restart/continue the previously scheduled backup settings?
thank you I've been trying to figure this out for days! Mine didn't come up with the Microsoft 7 backup choice like yours did but I was able to continue with what did come up! Everything else was spot on and it's backing up at this moment!
This video was very helpful. I read a few information articles on the website of the company that made my external hard drive and ended up feeling confused. Your video made things super simple. Thank you.
Great video. Have you made one about restoring from that backup? I agree with others in that MS now has now achieved a quite well rounded and efficient system with Windows but it is a shame that Windows 11 is still reliant on prehistoric tools to do a back up. Time Machine on macOS is so much better, and has been for over a decade. It’s not that hard 😅
Thank you for keeping it simple and no fluff! I found you after my 2020 hp spectre x360 windows 11 “loaded” pc failed to open various times. Something about Radeon settings and system failure. What the hell? Finally up and I got scared so I pulled out my handy dandy 1 TB SSD. Time to start looking for another pc. Not gonna spend so much on stuff I don’t need this time. Thanks again!
Thank you for the video, that's excellent. If you could share another video to walk us through the restoring process from the image backup, that would be great.
Thank you, Jonathan! Your video instructional on windows 11 external drive backup was very helpful and so easy to follow. Much appreciated! Cheers, Dagmar
buddy you are a live saver. I have been a mac man for 20 years and this windows 11 is horrible. Microsoft wants full control of every ones data. There is no reason they need to force my data on their servers unless its for devious reasons. Seriously rethinking my purchase. Thanks for the help!
Simple when you know how - wonder why I couldn't work it out for myself. Well, it's because Microsoft don't want me to. Thank you for your leisurely, very clear instruction; you saved my desk from yet another set of teeth marks.
Thank You Jonathan; your 'Presentation' was very informative and easy to understand😊 I'm preparing to replace our 9yr. old Windows-10 system with 'New Computer' having Windows-11 OS. Hopefully I'll be able to easily 'Restore Backup Files' to new system w/o having any 'compatibility issues'🤞
As an 48 years old tiler who watched Predator and Terminator on 1980s and 1990s I absolutely love Windows 11. I spent just couple of minutes to install it and honestly it has everything you need.
Very simple and straight to point 👉 thank you very much for the time put together to make this helpful video 📹 still works for me as of today 25.11.2023 on my hp envy 17 laptop 💻 watching from France 🇫🇷
Thank you so much, I found the backup very confusing and it shouldnt be this way. Do I have to go through this system everytime I back up??? Kind Regards Deanna
I have to say this made me miss the old Microsoft system , because it was so simple and clear exactly like your video. i honestly dont understand why they changed it. if it's not broken, why fix it !. It used to be user-friendly and no.1 for consumers , now it's as confusing as switching to a new operating system. Thank you for this video 🌷
Why oh why do Windows make things so difficult? I would never have managed to do a back up in Windows 11 if it wasn't for your video. So I'd like to thank you very much indeed for your very clear explanation.
very clear I wish it had come up when I was searching this info it would have saved a lot of time looking to that option hidden under control panel . Seeing it explained a lot and reassured me that i backed op correctly
Fascinating. I was looking in the wrong place for a manual backup option and (as you pointed out) coundn't find it. I saw the WIndows 7 thing and didn't think that made any sense; thanks for explaining that. Question now: do I need to backup onedrive? In case it gets a ransomware on it, or in case I delete something there by mistake?
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The fact that I'm an IT and need to look this up is crazy, I miss windows 10.
The procedure is literally the same on w10... Also if you don't like Windows 11 just install Windows 10? Like it's not that hard
LOL!! Same!!
I felt the same way. I'm in IT and I needed help too! How stupid that Windows 11 buried it. They are trying to promote One Drive instead.
me right now
As an 83 year-old engineer who learned DOS in the 1980s and loved Word Perfect, Lotus 1.2.3 and Netscape Navigator, I absolutely hate Windows 11. I spent several hours trying to figure out how to backup my new Dell laptop (that came with Windows 11 already installed) until I found your illuminating video that showed me the back door into backing it up.
I love getting messages like this. Thanks
But why the HELL is it hidden as a "back door"???? THIS is part of why I've told them to FK OFF and have switched to Apple IOS. REDICULOUS!!! Stop messing with my BRAIN, Microsoft!!
Watching this tutorial to make my transition over to Linux, screw Windows!
I'm in my late 60s and had spent an hour or more reading Microsoft's convoluted description on how to do this. Found other video's, useless, then this one, and got started in less than a minute! It is now backed up and unplugged, thanks to Jonathan!
@@MovingToAustralia-MikeBentley I had been in the same position until I'd seen Jonathan's video and now I'm backing up my pc with clear instructions and I've subscribed 👍
You are the first person out of 40 or 50 people (talking heads) to show a very simple way of doing this. Thanks
Totally Agree !!! .. and not spending a fortune on software !!!
Truly helpful. I was getting frustrated with the fact that Windows had hidden this functionality in profit of their cloud.
Thank you for this video. I am a senior citizen and not at all technical. I know nothing about computers. I had heard people should back up their computers. I had no idea how to do this until I found your video. You made it so simple to understand and did it at a pace I could follow. You explained it in a way that even an old lady like me with no computer knowledge can follow your instructions. Again thank you so very much!!
I am a 76 year old woman that has used computers since the later 1980s and I looked at half dozen videoes of how to backup my Windows 11 to my new WD Elements External Hard Drive (as nothing comes with instructions any more) and your video was the only one that was clear, concise and easy to use. None of the other videoes mentioned the backdoor to the download. I not only understood everything you said but I thoroughly enjoyed watching it. Thank you for your brillant video!!!
one of the best technology related explanations I have ever seen online. clear , short , detailed and work well with slow people like me. just subscribed
Excellent instructions. So frustrating that Microsoft has chosen to conflate "syncing" with "backing up". Your tutorial completely cleared things up for me. Also frustrationg the Microsoft chose to bury the backup utility in the old Control Panel.
I agree!
because windows wants you to use and subscribe to onedrive
Microsoft is obsessed with "syncing" - apparently it's what every teenager was born to want to do. It has messed up one drive (use google drive instead) because of this stupid teenage obsession.
They basically expect everyone to work at microsoft or another IT firm with top notch connection and speeds while "people" in the countryside can just keep hammering away at their manual typewriters, butter churns and axes
It's gonna be even more fun when Windows gets rid of the control panel. .-.
I've been a PC user since their inception. Yes - I'm old, but very tech savvy. The biggest issue I had with something that should be so simple during 3 decades of computer usage?: The backup of windows 11 to an external drive. Searched online All Over and found the best answer how to do that: Mr. Jonathan Edwards and this video. If you're searching for an answer how to backup WIN 11 to an external drive, go no further. Best process explanation on the internet. Thx Jonathan!
Thank you so much! I was getting so frustrated with Windows 11 not letting me to do a backup to my external HD and could not find the option to do it. You made it so easy.
This video is 2 years old and still helpful, thankyou
YOU ARE THE MAN! THANK YOU, THANK YOU! I watched this other bozo for 45 minutes. Having to rewind and play it several times to try to follow his method. It was madness so I just gave up. Then I found you and was able to back up my entire computer in the few minutes that you explained it. YOU ROCK! THANK YOU!
Thank you so much. I was losing my mind trying to figure out how to set this up without defaulting to OneDrive. So helpful.
Jonathan - thank you so much for preparing this video. Microsoft 11 is driving me crazy! Regarding the backup, the only issue was that when selecting to allow the system to decide what to backup, it did not backup ANY of my documents. So, I did the backup as recommended by the system and then did a second pass with my selected files. Finally, I got everything I need.
Thank you Jonathan. I searched U tube for this and after many tutorials, found yours. Yours is the most comprehensive as well as easy to follow. You got a new subscriber now. Thanks again!
Thank you so much. Spent way too much time trying to find the answer on my own. Shame on you Microsoft for burying this feature. Must be because they want you to increase your OneDrive storage plan.
Thank you Jonathan. After spending all day trying to work this problem out, your video solved my problem in a matter of minutes.
Thanks for the video man. I had done back ups before on windows 11 but it had been a long time since and recently bought a new hdd as my old one was failing so figuring out how to get to the correct backup (kept taking me to the one drive syncing bit) was frustrating as hell whereas your video was quick and concise on the issue and allowed me to actually do a proper system backup without issue.
Thank you for your effort. I was thinking for nearly 2 months about which backup software I should find to do this backup job. I admit this video well help me a lot. My windows 11 hard drive is about 👉250 GBs👈 ..Imagine how big is my data. It takes me around 2-3 days to setup windows and other applications. All I can say is THANK YOU very very much.
I tried ten other videos that were worthless, including the well-capitalized drive manufacturer, and your video was the only one that was accurate succinct and clear. Carry on, good sir!
Hi Jonathon. As someone who recently experienced a catastrophic computer crash and lost a lot of data, I found your video very clear and helpful. Having learnt my lesson I intend to set the backup for my new computer as you illustrated. I noticed however, that during the process there was an item to restore a failed computer using this backup. Have you, or are you able to demonstrate this next critical step? Many Thanks
Just bought a Western Digital "My Passport" hard drive and followed your instruction... PERFECT! Thanks so much for posting this Jonathan, you made my life much easier...
Thank you. Wasted couple hours trying to backup and then I came across this video on youtube. Awesome - simply explained. Made my day.
Thanks for a clear description of backing up files.
Thank you so much! I spent an embarrassingly long time trying (and failing) to figure this out until I found your video. You made the process so quick and simple, what a lifesaver.
Wow. Thanks. This was one of the easiest "How To"'s I have seen in a while. Grateful!
Thank you sooo much...I just spent too long reading people telling me to back up through the back up system. You made this so easy for someone who isn't tech savvy
This was super helpful, thank you! I appreciate that you speak slowly and the video is very pauseable so steps can be followed.
Thank you for the knowledge.
I took a year break to learn the new fangled music recording software and settled on the Studio One DAW.
The year break has been 6 years now and I have been self medicating with the music and it’s been the most sustained creative streak I’ve ever had.
But I have only just started mastering the 539 songs into albums which is another learning curve with Distrokid and mastering for streaming and then my computer starts making a weird noise and I’ve been thinking I have the files on my external hard drive for the DAW but thousands of hours of settings would be lost... and by the looks of this rambling comment I may have been about to lose it, now I’m back in control 😎
This was a brilliantly useful and easy to follow video, thank you so much! You are now my go to IT person. Have subscribed!
Thank you for helping me finally understand the backup process.
Like everyone else, Thanks for showing how easy it is. I hate how everything is hidden in win11. Takes forever to find advanced stuff. Again Thanks!!!
Top notch tutorial! Thank you for showing how to do it & what options there are along the way for advanced users. 😁
Thank you so much for this. I was searching and found so many other videos talking around the issue instead of explaining and showing how to properly accomplish this task. You rock!
Thanks for posting this! I find it so annoying that Microsoft is pretty much forcing people into OneDrive. I mean, average folks are not going to be able to look up and execute this solution. Glad they haven't completely taking this option away.
Thanks! I went to Control Panel but then I had to do a search on Backup and voila there it is :)
thanks for this. easy and straight forward. watched once last week, ordered a external hard drive from Amazon and watching again now. back up is in progress. something is wrong with my windows application so I have to reinstall it - which means wiping the hard drive. at least now I have a back up. next video I will look for is how to get the data from the external drive back on the computer. left a like and will will subscribe. thanks again.
Thank you Jonathan! I just wanted a simple external backup. Couldn’t find how to do it till I watched this. Success!!
THANK YOU! I can't believe they made the old Backup and Restore so hard to find. :)
Appreciate the clear and concise explanation. Backing up now!🙂
Thank you for the tutorial. I was going nuts trying to back up an external hard drive. Love to back up to 3 different places always have a plan you know.
Thanks for your video! Took me quite a while to figure out. But only took a few minutes after watching your video. Great help!
thank you so much for this! out of all the videos i’ve watched, yours was by far the best and easiest to follow!
Thank you for this tutorial. I was getting so stumped at how to get around the automatic OneDrive option.
The video title says it all. Very well explained. So easy to follow your instruction. Clear Voice and great tempo in explaining the steps.
This is the ONLY video that helped me. Every other video did nothing. I didn’t even have the options that they showed. Also, all of the online information to read through was not helpful. It took me to the first section you mentioned (that we excited out of). THANK YOU!!
I've been looking high and low for an old fashion HDD no cloud back up solution, finally!!! Many thanks
Bien explicado. En España decimos "ir al grano". Fácil de hacer. Sin engorrosas y largas explicaciones que solo hacen confundir, a mayor gloria y satisfacción del "explicador". Desde España, gracias Jonathan. Bien hecho.
THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! Your video was the ONLY video I was able to find that shows how to exactly backup Windows 11 to an external hard drive! TY TY TY
Thank you!! That was the best clear and helpful instruction video ever. Windows 11 is definitely not an improvement. I've been so frustrated searching all over my computer for this info. I'm now backed up and very happy. Thanks again👍
Hi Jonathan ~ Can't thank you enough for this super-clear and helpful walk-through to backing up my computer. You're the best computer guy on the internet, hands down. Rock on!!
great video. suddenly got paranoid about my laptop breaking so I'm backing it up. great explanation
thanks for pronouncing words so well to be heard correctly plus the way to back up
Thank you! Control Panel is the last place I would've looked for this backup function.
Jonathan: Just found you after 'an issue' and I'd like to thank you for this video! I'm not completely ignorant with computers, but I'm not a specialist in IT, either. I appreciate your info, clearly delivered and understandable - with options! Cheers!
Johnathan thanks for your easy to understand video on Windows backup. Do you have one for restore as well? If not, it would be great to know how to restore from a full crash. Also can you do a partial restore (for example all the pdf files in my documents folder) from the recommended restore or do you need to do a different type of file by file backup?
Thank you very much, Mr Edwards. That made it very straightforward, as your videos invariably do, thanks to the great care you
obviously take. (Your diction is very good, too.)
There are so many videos with comments saying "oh this helped so much" when the video did not help AT ALL, so this video was a nice surprise! Thank you :)
Brilliant video - many thanks. Question Can I put multiple copies ("Let Windows Choose" option) on the same external Hard Drive ? either from the same computer or a second computer without overwriting the original?
Great video, all the other videos on this subject are about continuing back ups through the cloud, most people don't want this they want a single back up created once every few months or whenever something new gets put on their lap top. Nice job, I will subscribe to show my support.
Great video, Jonathan! Question for you. When you unplug your external drive and plug it back in another time, do you have to reconfigure the scheduling job each time? Or, will Windows recognize it and restart/continue the previously scheduled backup settings?
You don’t need to reconfigure!
This was the easiest to understand video I have seen! Worked a treat so thankyou!!
Great video Jonathan. Thank you.
Once backup is completed, where would i find the backup on the external hard drive, will it be in the "file history"?
Thank you so much. I spent hours trying to figure this out. Really appreciate you posting this video.
Brilliant, so clear and easy to understand! Thank you!
thank you I've been trying to figure this out for days! Mine didn't come up with the Microsoft 7 backup choice like yours did but I was able to continue with what did come up! Everything else was spot on and it's backing up at this moment!
This video was very helpful. I read a few information articles on the website of the company that made my external hard drive and ended up feeling confused. Your video made things super simple. Thank you.
Thanks! This offers a complete description, and it's easy to understand.
Thank you!! The official 'back up' option was making me feel like I'd lost my mind!! 🤣🤣
Great video. Have you made one about restoring from that backup? I agree with others in that MS now has now achieved a quite well rounded and efficient system with Windows but it is a shame that Windows 11 is still reliant on prehistoric tools to do a back up. Time Machine on macOS is so much better, and has been for over a decade. It’s not that hard 😅
Thank you bro for this tutorial
Thank you for keeping it simple and no fluff! I found you after my 2020 hp spectre x360 windows 11 “loaded” pc failed to open various times. Something about Radeon settings and system failure. What the hell? Finally up and I got scared so I pulled out my handy dandy 1 TB SSD. Time to start looking for another pc. Not gonna spend so much on stuff I don’t need this time. Thanks again!
Thank you. I do appreciate your plain english descriptions of what to do.
Thank you! Windows 11 was really hiding the setting. I was so confused. Thanks for your help
Thank you for the video, that's excellent. If you could share another video to walk us through the restoring process from the image backup, that would be great.
Thank you so much for this. I've been looking all over and couldn't find this exact back up method. You're a life saver and great explanation!
Gone round and round for hours ..... thank you for making it simple!
Thank you, Jonathan! Your video instructional on windows 11 external drive backup was very helpful and so easy to follow. Much appreciated! Cheers, Dagmar
You are so clear in your tutorial and I wish you'd be my tutor in any other IT topic.
Crystal clear! Should I checked the system file option, in case my win11 laptop is corrupted and can’t boot?
buddy you are a live saver. I have been a mac man for 20 years and this windows 11 is horrible. Microsoft wants full control of every ones data. There is no reason they need to force my data on their servers unless its for devious reasons. Seriously rethinking my purchase. Thanks for the help!
Thanks Jonathan, you save the day. Following your advice and video it worked. Thank YOU
Simple when you know how - wonder why I couldn't work it out for myself. Well, it's because Microsoft don't want me to. Thank you for your leisurely, very clear instruction; you saved my desk from yet another set of teeth marks.
Thank You Jonathan; your 'Presentation' was very informative and easy to understand😊 I'm preparing to replace our 9yr. old Windows-10 system with 'New Computer' having Windows-11 OS. Hopefully I'll be able to easily 'Restore Backup Files' to new system w/o having any 'compatibility issues'🤞
Did it work?
I'm the World's Worse 'Procrastinator'; have yet to try Jon's method😉@@brendalg4
This was so helpful and very easy to follow! Thank you. 💓
Did you try it ....Inget stop efter 97% buckup
As an 48 years old tiler who watched Predator and Terminator on 1980s and 1990s I absolutely love Windows 11.
I spent just couple of minutes to install it and honestly it has everything you need.
One of the best explanation out here. Thank you for making this video. It is of great help.
Thank you for your simple, easy to follow (and understand) instructions!!!
Very simple and straight to point 👉 thank you very much for the time put together to make this helpful video 📹 still works for me as of today 25.11.2023 on my hp envy 17 laptop 💻 watching from France 🇫🇷
Oh so clear and useful. And I love your accent! Thanks so much!
Thank you so much, I found the backup very confusing and it shouldnt be this way. Do I have to go through this system everytime I back up??? Kind Regards Deanna
I have to say this made me miss the old Microsoft system , because it was so simple and clear exactly like your video. i honestly dont understand why they changed it. if it's not broken, why fix it !. It used to be user-friendly and no.1 for consumers , now it's as confusing as switching to a new operating system.
Thank you for this video 🌷
Why oh why do Windows make things so difficult? I would never have managed to do a back up in Windows 11 if it wasn't for your video. So I'd like to thank you very much indeed for your very clear explanation.
Thank you for this video. I do not hate Windows 11 but I cannot explain why Windows backup is so difficult to find
very clear I wish it had come up when I was searching this info it would have saved a lot of time looking to that option hidden under control panel . Seeing it explained a lot and reassured me that i backed op correctly
Wonderful explanation and easy to follow. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge. Am definitely hitting subscribe.
thank you great tutorial you were articulate and made it simple to follow I will definitely have no problems backing up now
Excellent video. Very clearly explained. Thanks.
Thank you so much!!! I was looking for this option so long!
Fascinating. I was looking in the wrong place for a manual backup option and (as you pointed out) coundn't find it. I saw the WIndows 7 thing and didn't think that made any sense; thanks for explaining that. Question now: do I need to backup onedrive? In case it gets a ransomware on it, or in case I delete something there by mistake?
Yes, always have a separate copy of Onedrive
At last.... a tech video i can follow with clear instruction. Perfect Thank you very much Jonathan.