

You can also apply encryption to the hard drive backup. If you've done so, you won’t need to reinstall Windows from scratch - you can simply restore the bootable partition and proceed as if the OS never failed.

Here, you can also choose the “Acronis Survival Kit” feature, which enables a bootable partition to recover your backups even if your operating system fails. You’ll then be prompted to choose what data to backup and set up exceptions. To create a hard drive backup, you can connect the hard drive to your system and select “Add a backup”. If you don’t, the solution will create a new backup and transfer it to the cloud. The software will synchronize your current backup to save time if you have an existing backup in the chosen storage location.(the latter is only possible if you have enough space on the said partition) After you pick “Entire PC”, choose a backup option to copy your system to the Acronis cloud, an external hard drive, or a separate partition on your system drive.This way, you’ll be able to restore your whole system in case the upgrade fails or even migrate the backup to a different device or a virtual machine.

Here, you’d want to pick “Entire PC” to copy the entirety of your computer and put the copy safely in storage.
