On Saturday, 1 August 2020 09:14:36 UTC+1, Broadback wrote:
I have tried Macrium, the problem there is that is reformats the "dump"
disc into a format that windows10 10 does not recognise, so restore not
only fails but I ended up with an unusable system. being rather simple a
s straight forward program is required. Any suggestions please?

What are you trying to do?

Back up your documents? Have an image whereby you can restore everything to a bare disc?

What version of Macrium? It appears to have had quite a few decent reports though I have no personal experience. Could it be that you need an updated version?