W7 Recovery on a W10 PC question

[learninmypc]

On 12/15/16 my pc W10 pc crashed & before I had a chance to save ANYthing, it got reformatted & ended up a W7. Last night I got it back to W10 but in the All Control Panel Items it shows Back up & Restore W7.
ANY chance of making it Back up & restore W10?
I've also got a friends Lenova ThinkPad with same question, thank youTIA

 

[JamesandBennie]

Sorry , I am confused . now you are Win10 and you want backup Win10 , but it tell you backup Win7?

 

[bazz2004]

No, you were given that escape route back to W7 in case you were unable to cope with change or hit unexpected problems. You could use it as a very long way back to W10 if you screw things up. You will have to choose a different backup solution for W10.

 

[learninmypc]

@JamesandBennie & @bazz2004 , I don't recall what thread in here I saw it, but I was under the impression I could of reinstalled W10 only so it wouldn't go back to W7.
Answer me this, if one buys a new W10 pc, does it have a W7 back up or not?

 

[Cycloid Torus]

Does not. If you do a clean install, it does not. If you upgrade from Win7, it does.

 

[learninmypc]

If I can, how do I do a clean install on my tower?

 

[bazz2004]

It's finally up and running again so it's best that you leave well alone. Instead, look into backing things up.

 

[learninmypc]

Thank you, I agree.

 

[holdum323]

Hi. Here's one article about the W10 back up feature. There are several on the internet. IMHO, if your going to create back up images you should use a 3rd party image program. The W10 feature is better then nothing.
https://www.pcworld.com/article/301...-in-windows-10-and-restore-it-if-need-be.html
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us...0/84fa6683-e3ac-4e93-9139-368af9267869?auth=1
PS Back up images are my specialty. I can answer most of your questions.