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Phil, it has the old school win7 backup in control panel. You could have made an image there.
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I do have a backup on stick, haven't tried to reload it yet as I had no mechanism to restore the OS without a bootable W10 installation.
The recovery partition was still intact, win10 had basically stuffed it's own partition and boot files by fixing errors that weren't there. I reloaded w8 from the recovery partition and reloaded W10 in a fraction of the time that I had spent on trying to recover the w10 installation.
Nothing I tried would bring the OS back to life, as I said, all the user directories and files had been cross linked and renamed as .chk files. The laptop is now back and running all I have to do is reload my applications, everything important I had backups of...