# Please recommend Software for Windows backup **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 24, 2026, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-recommend-software-for-windows-backup/1026981 "2026-01-24T15:00:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 33
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2026, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-recommend-software-for-windows-backup/1026981/33 "2026-02-02T19:34:54Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > I have 32 GB free space on my 120GB SSD laptop drive. That’s about 88 GB used that has to be backed up in an Disc image. > > Assume I do a drive image backup. > > Can I install a New 512GB SSD laptop and restore from the image backup? Absolutely! I’ve done exactly this several times. Of course you need to have bootable rescue media prepared in advance in order to move the system to the new drive. With Macrium Reflect (or likely many other backup programs) you’ll likely need to Google how to tell it to expand the user partition to the maximum available size of the new drive, or else you’ll end up with a new drive with the same partition size as the old drive, and a whole bunch of unused space. But even if that happens, a free utility like QuickPar, or Windows itself, can resize the user partition to the full extent of the disk. > [@aceplace57](#): > > Will Windows and all my other installed & registered Software work on bootup? Yes. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-recommend-software-for-windows-backup/1026981)._