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How to remove an image from a Windows 10 disk. Methods for creating an ISO image on Windows. Recovery via AOMEI

The newly installed Windows operating system cannot but please the eye. Pristinely clean, without any processes slowing down the computer, unnecessary software and a bunch of games. Experts recommend routinely reinstalling the OS every 6–10 months for preventive purposes and to clean up excess information. And for a successful reinstallation you need a high-quality disk image of the system.

In what cases may you need a Windows 10 system image?

The main reasons for the urgent need for an OS image are, of course, reinstalling or restoring the system after damage.

Damage may be caused by broken files on hard drive sectors, viruses and/or incorrect installed updates. Often the system can recover on its own if none of the critical libraries were damaged. But once the damage affects the bootloader files or other important and executable files, the OS may well stop functioning. In such cases, you can do without external media ( installation disk or flash drives) is simply impossible.

It is recommended to have several permanent media with a Windows image at once. Anything can happen: disk drives often scratch disks, and flash drives themselves are fragile devices. In the end, everything falls into disrepair. And the image should be updated periodically in order to save time downloading updates from Microsoft servers and immediately have it in your arsenal latest drivers for equipment. This mainly concerns a clean OS installation, of course.

Burning an image to a disk or flash drive

Let's say you have a Windows 10 disk image, assembled or downloaded from the official Microsoft website, but it is of little use as long as it just sits on the hard drive. It must be written correctly using standard or third party program, because the image file itself is of no value to the bootloader's attempt to read it.

It is important to consider the choice of media. Usually a standard DVD blank with a stated 4.7 GB of memory or a USB flash drive with a capacity of 8 GB is sufficient, since the weight of the image often exceeds 4 GB.

It is also advisable to clear the flash drive of all contents in advance, or even better, format it. Although almost all recording programs format removable media before recording an image on it.

Creating an image using the installer

Nowadays, special services have been created to obtain operating system images. The license is no longer tied to separate disk, which may become unusable for various reasons, or its box. Everything goes into electronic view, which is much safer than the physical ability to store information. With the release of Windows 10, the license has become safer and more mobile. It can be used on several computers or phones at once.

You can download a Windows image from various torrent resources or using the Media Creation Tool program, recommended by Microsoft developers. This small recording utility Windows image on the flash drive can be found on the company's official website.

Download the installer.
Launch the program, select “Create installation media for another computer" and click "Next".
Select to create installation media for another computer
Select the system language, edition (choose between Pro and Home versions), as well as 32 or 64 bits, again “Next”.
Define boot image options
Specify the media where you want to save the Windows boot. Or directly to a flash drive, creating bootable usb drive, or as an ISO image on a computer and then use it:
Wait until the process you have chosen finishes, after which you will be able to use the downloaded product at your discretion.
After the process is complete, the image or bootable flash drive will be ready to use

While the program is running, Internet traffic of 3 to 7 GB is used.

Video: How to Create a Windows 10 ISO Using the Media Creation Tool

Creating an image using third-party programs

Oddly enough, but OS users still choose additional programs for working with disk images. Often, due to a more convenient interface or functionality, such applications outperform standard utilities offered by Windows.

Daemon Tools

Daemon Tools is a well-deserved leader in the software market. According to statistics, about 80% of all users who work with disk images use it. To create a disk image using Daemon Tools, do the following:

Also Daemon program Tools allows you to create a bootable USB drive:

Video: how to burn a system image to disk using Daemon Tools

Alcohol 120%

The Alcohol 120% program is an old-timer in the field of creating and burning disk images, but still has minor shortcomings. For example, it does not write images to a flash drive.

Video: how to burn a system image to disk using Alcohol 120%

Nero Express

Almost all Nero products are designed to work with disks in general. Unfortunately, not much attention is paid to images, however simple entry disk from the image is present.

Open Nero Express, hover your mouse over “Image, Project, Copier.” and select “Disk image or saved project” from the drop-down menu.
Click on the item “Disk image or saved project”
Select the disk image by clicking the required file, and click the "Open" button.
Open the Windows 10 image file
Click “Burn” and wait until the disc is burned. Don't forget to check if your boot DVD is working properly.
The “Burn” button starts the process of burning the installation disc

Unfortunately, Nero still does not write images to flash drives.

Video: How to Burn a System Image Using Nero Express

Ultra ISO

UltraISO is an old, small, but very powerful tool on working with disk images. Can record to both disks and flash drives.

Open the UltraISO program.
To burn an image to a flash drive, select the required disk image file at the bottom of the program and double-click on it to mount it in virtual drive programs.
In the directories at the bottom of the program, select and mount the image
At the top of the program, click on “Boot” and select the “Burn hard disk image” item.
The item “Burn hard disk image” is located in the “Boot” tab
Select the required USB storage device that is suitable in size and change the recording method to USB-HDD+ if necessary. Click the "Burn" button and confirm formatting the flash drive if the program prompts you to do so.
The “Burn” button will start the process of formatting the flash drive and then creating an installation flash drive
Wait for the recording to finish and check the flash drive for compliance and functionality.

Burning boot disks with UltraISO follows a similar pattern:

Video: how to burn an image to a flash drive using the UltraISO program

What problems may arise while creating an ISO disk image?

By and large, problems should not arise during image recording. Only cosmetic problems are possible if the media itself is of poor quality or damaged. Or perhaps there are power problems during recording, such as a power outage. In this case, the flash drive will have to be formatted anew and the recording chain will be repeated, and the disk will, alas, become unusable: it will have to be replaced with a new one.

As for creating an image through the Media Creation Tool utility, problems may well arise: the developers did not particularly care about deciphering errors if they arise. Therefore, we have to navigate the problem at random.

If the download does not start and freezes at 0%

If the download does not even start and the process freezes at the very beginning, the problems can be both external and internal:

Microsoft servers are blocked antivirus programs or provider. There may be a simple lack of connection to the Internet. In this case, check which connections are blocked by your antivirus and the connection to Microsoft servers;
there is not enough space to save the image, or you have downloaded a fake duplicate program. In this case, the utility must be downloaded from another source, and disk space must be freed up. Moreover, it is worth considering that the program first downloads the data and then creates the image, so the space needed is approximately twice as much as stated in the image.

If the download freezes at the percentage, or the image file is not created after downloading

When the download freezes while downloading an image, or the image file is not created, the problem is (most likely) related to the operation of your hard drive.

In the case when a program tries to write information to bad sector hard drive, the OS itself can reset the entire installation or boot process. In this case, you need to determine the reason why the hard drive sectors have become unusable by the Windows system.

First of all, check the system for viruses with two or three anti-virus programs. Then check and disinfect the hard drive.

Video: how to check your hard drive for errors and fix them

Creating an installation disk from an image is very simple. Every Windows user should have this kind of media on a permanent basis.

Today it is not so difficult to find an image of the “ten” on one of the many sites and torrent trackers, however, in most cases, instead of a clean system you will get a rather strange “SOMETHING”, filled with unnecessary software, third-rate drivers and a bunch of “whistles” which only slow down the OS and make it appearance, let's say, miserable. Also, as a bonus, there may also be malware, such as viruses and Trojans. In a word, it’s time to start figuring out: how to create one that will contain a clean system, without unnecessary nasties?

Where to get it?

For regular readers of our site, it will not be a surprise that you can upgrade to Windows 10 manually - the Media Creation Tool application is successfully used for this, however, few people know that using the same application you can create bootable media, as well as ISO -images of the system. To do this, you do not have to download additional tools or make changes to the system - just carefully follow the instructions that appear on the screen while the application is running. So let's get started:

Download and launch Media Creation Tool;
In the first step, select “Create installation media for another PC”;

Specify the parameters of the ISO image you want to create - language, edition, and bit depth (32 or 64 bits);

Finally, in the last step, select the location where you want to write the downloaded data. This can be either a flash drive (USB drive) or an ISO image, which can then be burned;

Click "Next" and wait until the download completes.

The last step can be particularly time-consuming, given that you'll have to download between 3GB and 7GB of data, depending on which version you choose. Congratulations, now you know how to create a Windows 10 image!

How to record?

As you can see, creating an ISO with Windows 10 is quite simple, but you can’t do much with the image itself - it can only be used in experiments with virtual machine, where it can be successfully connected as a real disk. If you need to create real media - a disk or flash drive, with which you can then use the WinSetupFromUSB or Windows DVD Download Tool - articles about these programs, as well as videos, you can find on our website - they have a more than comprehensive answer to the question of how to record Windows image 10 per disk.

To restore the operating system after problems with any parameters, you should seek help from a system image on a flash drive or disk, having first created it.

Using an OS image, you can reinstall everything from scratch. It is also possible to correct errors when starting the operating system or clean the PC of unnecessary and unnecessary programs. Main reasons to use:

OS reinstallation;
restoring the OS in case of problems.

You can create an image if you use programs such as:

archiving wizard;
installer;
third-party: Nero Express, etc.

We are working on creating a Windows 10 image

We prepare the necessary tools for this process. You may need things like:

SSD disk (external);
USB drives;
DVDs.

Creating an image using the Archive Wizard

Step by step instructions:

There are some options for the location of the Windows image:

hard drives. There are 3 options for storing your image: 1) SSD drive (external); 2) internal extra hard disk; 3) one of the disk partitions that you are archiving. The most reliable is the first option. If the archive is stored internally on a disk, then if the hard drive fails, the archive will be lost;
This option is not reliable, but still many prefer to choose it;
network folder. If you consider yourself an experienced PC user, then you can safely choose this option. To do this, you need a network connection and you must know the parameters for accessing the resource.

Windows image storage location

You can see the location of your archive files, as well as find out the space it occupies.

A visual view of storing an image of your system:

An example of the location of the image can be seen in the screenshot.

To find out the size of the archive, click on right button mouse over the folder and go to “Properties”.

Using the installation program

To download the image, you can go to the official website or any other Internet resources.

We use third-party snails

Remember that this entry to optical DVDs is gradually losing its relevance. After all, netbooks, ultrabooks and tablets do not have a disk drive. We recommend sticking to recording on an SSD drive or flash card.

Pre-install the necessary program and then proceed to recording the operating system image.