About System Restore

What is system restore?

    System restore means to recover the operating system to factory defaults or an earlier backed up healthy state, especially when your current OS stops working due to virus/hacker attack, malware, upgrading, misoperation, etc.

Where could you restore the system to?

    AOMEI Backupper, the best system restore software on Windows 11/10/8.1/8/7/Vista/XP, allows you to restore system to following destinations:
  • Original location
  • Another partition
  • Another disk (local, external or removable)
  • Another computer (known as dissimilar hardware restore or universal restore)

How to Perform a System Restore?

The specialized PC restore software - AOMEI Backupper offers you an easy way to run system recovery. You must have performed System Backup via AOMEI Backupper before restoring from it.

Then, you can choose the backup task in Home tab, or select system image in Restore tab to perform system restore.

There are two more useful features you can take advantage of when restoring the operating system:

● Create Bootable Media: you are able to make a bootable USB drive which can start your computer in case of boot failure.
● Universal Restore: you can restore a system image to dissimilar hardware without worrying about boot issues after recovery.

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