Nevertheless, once these hurdles are overcome, the program is intelligent, smart and relatively straightforward to use: a few clicks to select your target partition, confirm the changes and then the obligatory reboot into the AOMEI OneKey Recovery environment to perform the actual backup. It also means that more mature Windows installations are likely to require a significant amount of free space compared to brand new ones - basically you'll need as much free space as the current size of your C drive.Īssuming there is enough free space to create the partition, you'll next need to download and install the Windows Automated Installation Kit - OneKey Recovery provides a link if it’s missing, but at a 1.7GB download in ISO format for burning to disc or mounting as a virtual drive in Windows 8, it's a little clunky. The tool is basically taking a drive image of your main Windows partition, which means if data is stored on that partition it’ll be saved too.Īt the present time, OneKey Recovery can only be created on the same partition as Windows itself, which could be a deal-breaker if free space is at a premium.

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