I then cancelled the task and went back and selected only the C: and D: drives (as shown as ticked in the 2nd image above) and got the same error, so I assume it is on the D: drive. Regardless I went ahead and set up an incremental daily backup with this being a full as it is the first.
I had to do a restore from an EaseUS Todo backup. Thought I previously created the recovery flash drive fine but it would not boot from it. Then in a chat session with an EaseUS Todo Rep (on another functioning PC) he said it was not valid. He took control of my PC and created another boot USB Flash Drive. BUT, when I used it, I was unable to browse to an external HD to do the restore. I ended up having to take my laptop to a computer store where they were finally able to create a USB Boot drive that would do the restore; and charged me a hefty amount. Once I had the correct USB boot flash drive, the restore worked perfectly.
Any idea what Enable PreOS actually changes? Does it create a recovery partition? Or, does it just add an entry to the boot configuration which points off to a WinPE image somewhere in the C:\Programs (x86)\EaseUS\Todo Backup folder?
I use this Enable PreOS feature. Works well and comes up with a separate screen before booting up to Win 11 for me. Screen asks me to boot to Windows or boot to EaseUS Todo WinPE. If I do nothing, in 30 seconds, it will boot to Win 11 automatically. I like it and the 30 extra seconds to boot up does not bother me. Does it create another recovery partition, I am not sure? When I go to Disk Management for my HP laptop, I do see a Recovery partition, but I have no idea if EaseUS Todo created this or HP did this. Best bet is to send an email to sup...@todo-backup.com and ask this question. They are pretty good at answering email, just may take a day since its answered from China in different time zone.
Most likely it adds a boot config pointing to the existing C: partition. Anything else would require moving files / partitions and creating additional partitions, which takes a long time and cannot be done while Windows is running.
You should image backup the entire system, at least monthly, to an external hard drive that you then unplug from the computer. Do it before the monthly patches are applied, so for some people that means before Patch Tuesday, the second Tuesday.
If you have to connect a disk to make a backup, the timing depends on how often you update your data and how important it is.
If you only use mail then backup less often because the mail server has a copy, unless you use POP3.
If you update your docs / spreadsheets daily then you need to consider a daily backup (often enough so you still have the data to redo after a crash.
I was able to find a Paragon software that I could use. Now my laptop is backed up. I just wish I had found it sooner and save me the headache that the previous one caused me. I even made a new Recovery drive since I had upgraded to Win 11 Pro.
b1e95dc632