“HP 15.6" Touchscreen Laptop - Natural Silver (Intel Core i7-1255U/1TB SSD/16GB RAM/Win 11)”
I have a copy of “AcronisCyberProtectHomeOffice.exe” downloaded Feb18th (two weeks ago)
I have a copy of “reflect_setup_free_x64.exe” downloaded the same day.
I see the topic “Macrium Reflect Free being retired”
Macrium.com boasts a 30-day free trial, which seems reasonable. https://www.macrium.com/products/home says “US$69.95” which I think of as $cdn100.
Acronis at https://www.acronis.com/en-us/products/ ... urchasing/ says “$49.99 per year”
Macrium https://macrium.cleverbridge.com/604/surl-qmZTXbuOdI makes no mention of the $69.95 being a regular annual fee.
Right now I am resisting the impulse to start playing on the laptop without first making sure that I can
(1) Make a system backup to DVD
(2) Make a recovery boot from one of the two 64MB keys I bought last week
(3) Do a “ESP factory reset”
I have done what HP suggest and plugged the laptop into mains power to charge the battery.
After the ESP factory reset I should feel comfortable playing around with Win11, because one way or another I can return the system to the state that it is in today, correct?
I am eager to start using this beast; I have a volunteer project that is being held up because we agree that the Win7 DELL laptop is old, Win7 is old, and my system itself is cluttered with debris.
But I want to “do it right”
I notice at https://www.ghacks.net/2022/11/27/backu ... g-retired/ that AOMEI Backupper , Paragon Backup & Recovery Free, and Rescuezilla are suggested alternatives.
Free is good, but I am not averse to paying for something nowadays.
Thanks in anticipation of any suggestions.
Chris
