Winter is Coming

[Trouble]

And there is nothing Hodor will be able to do, to prevent it.
On or about April 11th (6 days hence), the Windows 10 Creator's Update will begin its' roll-out.
No doubt most of these will go off flawlessly, without a hitch, but.....
I feel obliged again, to encourage everyone to...........
Backup your critical data and create a disk image of your current install.
IF history is any indicator, we know that there will be some instances where this major update will likely not go as planned.

 

[Grizzly]

true that is even though I hardly ever experienced major problems. My updates sometimes take a few days to arrive......

 

[Jorn Johanesson]

I hope the update will perform well on my 4 computers I have until now not had anything serious to complain about. 2 Acer laptops 2 stationary all with win 10. 2 computers are updating now.

 

[Ian]

A worthy reminder!

Damn, now I'm excited about Game of Thrones starting back up .

 

[Jorn Johanesson]

If you want an alternative backup software, I can recomment Macrium Reflect. The free editon is sufficient for creating bacup of software and data and making a diskimage. https://www.macrium.com/reflectfree and is very simple to use

 

[Trouble]

I've heard a lot of people, speak very highly about Macrium Reflect.
I made a small list a while back when we all began this journey https://www.windows10forums.com/threads/please-for-your-own-peace-of-mind.794/
There are likely others, so.....
IF anyone has any other suggestions as to free or even exceptional paid for / commercial backup solutions, I'd love to hear about them.

 

[Data]

My backup is complete! I am hoping for the best, but in the back of my mind, I know, Q will pull another of his pranks and the proverbial fan will be covered in Faeces...

I have also the full ISO for 1703 (downloaded direct yesterday) and, I have half a mind of upgrading with that before Im Rick-Roll'd by Q (By Q, I mean Microsoft)! Am not looking forward to this experience in any case because, as a non gamer and non-supporter of the illogical growing list of unwanted software that cant be removed, the bugs that aren't yet fixed really get my emotion chip on overload .

I used my trusted Acronis boot ISO, I do have Macrium on one of my many virtual machines I use for testing, but I prefer bootable PE images for their flexibility and portability.

Warp 6, engage!