Older Images

I have some older images that I may want to restore, are the a way other than restoring and going through
the process of updating Secure Boot again...I run paid ver 8 if I back up now from desktop on another drive
will the restore from desktop on the other drive or do I have to use the USB boot disk only now?

Think about backing them up to a USB thumb drive or CD - DVD?

Here's the key point of Secure Boot: You can always temporarily disable it.

Secure Boot helps keep the system secure, but if you're performing manual recovery or Windows installation/re-installation, the risk of having malware do something terrible during the process are generally low.

If you have an older USB recovery drive, turn off Secure Boot and allow it to work. Depending on how old your captured backup may be, it may have outdated versions of the Windows boot files. The Secure Boot certs themselves live in the UEFI, so they're separate from your Windows image. Allow the recovery or installation to finish its work.

Leave Secure Boot disabled for now. If you know your Windows image is outdated, then run Windows Update and wait until it installs the latest Windows files. Then you can run an update script or the Secure Boot task to bring everything up to speeds Now you can re-enable Secure Boot.

Sometimes you can't always control the recovery media or backup image you have. It's always best to have a current backup, but you may need to recover files from a much older image before you knew about Secure Boot.

You want to limit your security risk by keeping Secure Boot enabled whenever possible. But it's acceptable to leave it off as long as you're focused on recovery efforts and not browsing the web or doing other tasks until the job is done.

remover said:

Think about backing them up to a USB thumb drive or CD - DVD?

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I have another drive in my PC where I kept backups