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Good day to everyone! I recently reinstaled windows on my pc and laptop, and i did a lot of reinstalations in the past on different pc's. Now, as many might know, reinstalling windows and instaling every program and files on your pc can be frustrating, and apart from that sometimes a clean instalation of windows may cause different problems for unknown reasons. So any time i reinstall windows, i usually remember the files and reinstall anything necesarry. Then, after reinstalation i use "restoro" to check the system stability and repair it if needed, as well as make a save point of the system after i instaled everything properly. However, i have a lot of software and files that i am using in everyday to day life. I have an external drive that i copy all the files that i need usually, but that doesnt mean that the reinstalation is not frustrating in some cases, especially if i have 2 pc's. Therefore i tried to find a solution for this problem. Now, i have 2 pc's, one of which is a custom build one in Ghost s1 case, and the other is a MSI prestige laptop. So if i to backup my pc's in any way, i have a few options avaliable: MSI laptop has a software called MSI system image recovery, which copies the files to an external usb or any drive, CD, or via internet. But what it actually makes is a recovery drive, which means it is essentially a boot usb drive with windows 10 on it. This provides a clean instalation of windows using a usb drive if the system fails in the future. The other options that are included in windows, and it goes for both of my pc's, are: 1) Archive system in windows settings that copies the personal files on to a drive 2) System recovery tool that is esentially the same thing as MSI system image recovery 3) Disk image, which is a tool that copies your entire drive, in order to recover it if something goes wrong Considering all these factors, the best option for me would be a creation of disk image after a clean windows reinstalation, so any time, if my system fails, i can get the drive and restore my system to a fresh start with everything needed saved. As if nothing happend. This is a convinient way of reinstaling windows, so you dont have to worry about reinstaling programs, software, drivers, etc. But! there are some dificulties with all these plans. The disk image cannot be backed up on a usb, i have no idea why, although in a lot of tutorials there is a way to back up on a usb. it didnt work for me. therefore i could have used an external program, but all of them are rubish considering you need to pay or they need to be installed at all times, etc. So the main questions are: 1) Is there a way to completely copy your pc? so that in case your system dies or malfunctions, you can reboot and restore your pc to its original state with clean windows, all your personal files, drivers, software etc, considering that your copy is in perfect condition 2) Using a old software "Backup and Restore (Windows 7)" in the control panel, you can create a disk image. However, some tutorials show that it can be created on a usb with enough capacity using NTFS format. but it didnt work for me, it only shows that "cannot back up to this external drive" (there was enough capacity on a usb, and it was formated in NTFS, but no luck) is there a way? 3) If a usb doesnt work, i have an external 2TB hard drive, but i have 300GB of files there, will it be a good idea to back up there? will the disk be formated? 4) If the only way to create a system image is through a hard drive can i save 2 system images? one from my laptop, and one from my pc? If there are alternatives to reinstaling clean windows with drivers, files, softwares, tools etc, please let me know, all that i found was this information. Thank you very much for your patience, i appretiate your help.

(Edit: So I made an edit at like 2am and I realize it could have been taken as a game being blamed, so I'll rephrase) Update: Any demanding gaming loads cause the problem, playing fortnite caused artifacting then it recovered after I alt f4-ed. So basically, I upgraded from a 980 from like 2014 or 15, to a 2080ti trio. Everything was fine from December 26th, all the way till like the 15th of January. Then sense then my system has crashed with the audio doing that cliche glitch sound, or artifacting, OR BOTH, always while gaming, or watching Youtube, or changing resolutions because of my monitors Picture In Picture, or a combo of them in some way. It crashed so hard that two of the times, it launched into windows recovery. I'm trying to figure out if this is just, incompatibility with an old motherboard, a driver issue, or if it's defective and I should RMA it. System Specs: Z97 Gaming 5 from MSI Intel Core i7 4790k MSI 2080ti trio Corsair HX850i PSU Drivers: Up until posting this just now, I was running bios update 1.8, I'm now updated to 1.D. I was also running the launch drivers of the 2080ti when the first two crashes happened, and after the second updated to 4.18. I hope this is all the info needed, if not I shall be checking this frequently so if anyone wants to help me out, I shall try to respond quickly, and update if after all these steps I've taken, it crashes again. (system was stuttering like crazy but didn't actually crash to reboot, I manually turned it off, keyboard froze like in picture, even after manually resetting the computer.)

PLZ HEELP MY PC(ACTUALLY LAPTOP) IS NOT RUNNING WELL SO I WENT TO WINDOWS RECOVERY IN UPDATE AND RECOVERY THERE I HAVE 2 OPTIONS TO KEEP FILES OR NOT SO I WOULD KEEP MY FILES BUT MY QUESTION IS IF ANY GAMES ARE STORED IN C DRIVE WILL THEY B DELETED TOO??