Solved How do I force Windows to create a backup on a removable hard drive?

[Shub Niggurath]

Aaaannnndd Microsoft adds ANOTHER unnecessary and BUTCHERING addition to Windows 7 by forcing you to only backup on internal hard drives! Because that's SUCH a great idea!

Look I am really tired of all of the issues I have been getting with control of my computer with Windows 7, I am using an admin account and I SHOULD be allowed to create a backup on an external hard drive. Microsoft just disable it for no reason, or for a ridiculous one. So how do I force Windows 7 to allow me to back up a hard drive on an external one?

 

[Layback Bear]

I'm no expert but I did find a couple and they have made tutorials that might be what you are looking for.

By Brink:
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/615-backup-user-system-files.html

By whs:
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/73828-imaging-free-macrium.html

 

[Shub Niggurath]

Thank you!

 

[Lady Fitzgerald]

Many of the experts here (and I, although I'm hardly an expert) strongly recommend using Macrium Reflect. People seem to have fewer problems with it than with Windows Imaging.