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Saturday, February 11, 2017 4:53 AM | 1 vote
I have a replacement surface 3 windows 10 from Microsoft & I am trying 2 save my system settings 2 an external drive I have formatted it & started to save I saw windows 7 I stopped the drive & formatted it again. when I went back to start process again in my tablet it says windows 7. I don't understand this my surface is windows 10 & I just updated everything after getting this one as a replacement & it has same problem so it has to go back too. I'm lost I hope someone can help asap.
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Saturday, February 11, 2017 3:06 PM ✅Answered
Windows 7 backup and restore is available in Windows 10 so any backups done that way can be restored. It is also useable and can be used to backup. So it is normal to see Windows 7 backup on Windows 10.
If you open Settings > Update & security then select Backup on the left that will show you the standard backup options for Windows 10. File History being the other way Windows 10 can backup files.
Saturday, February 11, 2017 4:07 PM ✅Answered
I have a replacement surface 3 windows 10 from Microsoft & I am trying 2 save my system settings 2 an external drive I have formatted it & started to save I saw windows 7 I stopped the drive & formatted it again. when I went back to start process again in my tablet it says windows 7. I don't understand this my surface is windows 10 & I just updated everything after getting this one as a replacement & it has same problem so it has to go back too. I'm lost I hope someone can help asap.
Please read this article : It explains why Windows 10 has both Backup and Restore (Windows 7) and File History in Windows 10 versions.
http://www.howtogeek.com/220986/how-to-use-all-of-windows-10%E2%80%99s-backup-and-recovery-tools/
Backup and Restore (Windows 7)
RELATED ARTICLE
excerpt :
Microsoft has included the old Backup and Restore feature from Windows 7. This was deprecated in Windows 8 and removed in Windows 8.1, but it’s back. It’s also known as “Windows Backup".
This tool will allow you to restore any old Windows 7 backups on your Windows 10 computer. But you can also use it to back up your Windows 10 PC in the exact same way you’d back up a Windows 7 PC. Unlike Microsoft’s new File History backup solution, you can use Windows Backup to more easily create a backup of practically everything on your hard drive.
You’ll find this tool in the Control Panel — just search for “backup” to locate it.