By Michael | Last Updated
When you fail to boot Windows and you want to get reach to the documents, pictures, music, and other files/data, what should you do? Here, you will learn a smart way to backup files from your computer without booting into Windows.
CloneGo enables you to create a bootable USB to serve as the media to back up the computer data without signing into Windows OS. Of course, you can create the USB on any Windows computer and then boot your computer with it.
So, how to backup files/data without booting Windows 10/8/7? Let's read on to find the answer.
Step 1: Start a Windows computer, download and install iSunshare CloneGo.
Step 2: Insert a USB disk to the computer. Run CloneGo and click Make Boot Disk. Then you will get 2 ways to make the PE file and here you need to choose Select WIM file to make PE.
Step 3: Then, select the inserted USB disk and burn the PE file into the disk by clicking Make. After a while, the WinPE drive will be created.
Note: Before burning the PE file into the selected USB disk, the software will format the disk firstly.
Restart your Windows computer and enter the boot menu to select the WinPE USB drive to boot from. Then connect a storage device to the Windows computer.
Step 1: After the computer is booted from the PE drive successfully, the user interface of CloneGo will be shown automatically.
Step 2: Click Backup in the left pane.
Step 3: Select the partition where the wanted files/data locate to backup and click Choose to select another storage device to save the backup. The backed-up data/files will be packed into an ICG file.
Tips: As the volume letter of the same volume is different in Windows OS and WinPE, you can distinguish the volume with its size.
Step 4: Hit Start to begin the backup task.
Add: The backed-up file can be restored easily with the software's Restore function. The steps are clicking Restore > choosing a restoration destination to save the backed-up data/files > selecting Choose to input the ICG file(backup data) > execute the restoration operation with Start. You can do it on another computer to uncompress the backup files.
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