Windows 10 Tablet backup
Hi!
Am I assuming correctly that I need a PC license to backup a Windows 10 tablet/convertible?
Also, has anybody ever backed up the entire hard drive of a Tablet and restored it completely like for PC. In my case it is a Lenovo Yoga 2 1051f?


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Wow, thank you Bobbo for your exhaustive reply!
However, I think there was a language misunderstanding here: I meant "Has anybody ever backed up an entire tblet through image backup and restored it back to the tablet. Just like I can do it for my PC?" I was concerned that this might not be possible due to the BIOS or whatever limitations of a tablet but I understand you were succesful doing this!
Two questions:
a) What is Wimboot? Is that some sort of BIOS for tablets?
b) What do you mean by"full OS versions"?
By the way: I think we have the very same use case: I want to buy the 1051f (which has Win 8.1) and make an image backup. Then, I want to install Win10 which will kill the restore partition as I read. Which means I can baiscally delete the resotre partition and use it for my stuff. If it turns out that Win10 lacks drivers (which might be the case for the SD slot, which I also read) or anything else doesn't work smoothly I want to restore factory defaults.
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Ah - yeah, I misunderstood a little bit. Backing up and restoring to the same hardware should be no problem at all then. That's what I've been doing without issue. As long as the backup and restore options can see the internal hard drive, you're good to go. Just make sure you backup the entire inernal hard drive, with all paritions selected.
Wimboot is a way of using a compressed boot.wim file in the OS to save space on some tablets - usually those with only 2Gb of memory and 32Gb or less total internal hard drive space. I don't know exactly how it works, but basically, it keeps many of the OS system resources compressed and they can be accessed on the fly. As a result, is keeps the total OS install smaller, but at the cost of some speed.
My 64gb tablet came with wimboot, but after I licensed it with Windows 10, I wiped the drive and installed a full OS of Windows 10 (regular install of Windows 10 using the Windows 10 media creation tool - just like you'd find on a PC install of Windows or most laptops). I don't do much with the tablet so space is not an issue with 64gb available and wanted a full OS install to improve performance on a modest system with a baytrail CPU and only 4Gb of available memory. If you have 32Gb or inernal memory, or less, you probably want to stick with the wimboot install of the OS that comes with the tablet... I have no idea how you could do a "fresh" install of Windows 10 using wimboot.
What is Windows Image Boot (Wimboot)
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