Will system image of windows 10 be ok for recovery?

justaquestion

Hi folks,


I got a new computer for my son who has learning difficulties, has windows 8.1 on it so tried to set it up.


Installed avast and antimalwarebytes, and did a scan with both, both came up with infection, the malwarebytes one in particular had three backdoors, so quarantined the lot. Computer did have windows defender installed, and I used Ccleaner to stop some of the startup stuff, like adobe, apple that kind of thing.


Then the problems started, computer got near booting into windows and kept restarting.


I spent a good part of the day trying to sort it out, reset it with the recovery partition a few times. No nearer to finding out what was the software conflict, maybe avast, maybe false positives from malwarebytes, I really don't know.


Anyway as I was being pestered to upgrade to windows 10 anyways I took the plunge and though it might be more stable, have got it installed now, without any anti virus or malwarebytes.


I want to do a system image, the one built into windows 10 just in case I have more problems, or before I do a scan with malwarebytes to remove the so called backdoors, (as I recovered the windows 8 from recovery partition)


As there is only one drive of less than 500gb, I have allocated 70 gb for system restore and will do system image to an external WD my passport drive.


Are the imaged created within windows fairly reliable to recover the OS? I did install EAseus Tobo backup in windows 8 but not sure if that contributed to the restarting problem.


Will the system image from windows 10, plus the recovery CD that I make be sufficient for my needs do you think?


Many thanks for any helpful info.

grumpycrab

justaquestion wrote: »

Anyway as I was being pestered to upgrade to windows 10 anyways I took the plunge and though it might be more stable, have got it installed now, without any anti virus...

As there is only one drive of less than 500gb, I have allocated 70 gb for system restore and will do system image to an external WD my passport drive. Are the imaged created within windows fairly reliable to recover the OS?

W10 comes with anti-virus.

Re. systen image backup - yes - do it and it should be reliable; you could always try it. You should also create a repair disk to boot from (in the event that the computer becomes unbootable). PS. W10 also comes with an OS "refresh" option which does the same thing (you can choose to keep or delete data files.)

JJ_Egan

Win 10 has MS Windows defender .
Bit better in latest tests but not one of the best .

justaquestion

Thanks for replies.


So is it possible that windows defender was somehow conflicting with avast on windows 8.1(computer kept restarting before fully loading into windows 8? I take it I can just turn windows defender off in the control panel, before installing another antivirus, a bit reluctant to go with avast again, either aviria or avg.


As regards the backdoor malware that was found by malwarebytes, just do another scan to eliminate it, since windows 8 seemed only to develop the restarting problem, after I scanned and deleted those files, thought it might be a false positive and really essential system files.


Anyways since I now have upgraded that computer to windows 10 hope it is more stable.


Thanks for any further help

grumpycrab

Defender should automatically switch off when another AV is installed. I've not seen any problems with avast under 8 or 10.

Your malware probably wasn't (malware) if it was a clean 8.1. If you get malware reports again best to google them before quarantining...