Steps to back up your Windows 7 PC
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PostPosted: Thu, Sep 12 2013, 1:38 pm EDT    Post subject: Steps to back up your Windows 7 PC Reply with quote

Steps to back up your Windows 7 PC

(especially useful for restoring the Windows 7 system after a system crash)

1. Make sure you have a USB drive/hard drive with enough free space. (Amazon has a good 1TB USB drive for $69.99; 2TB $119.99, FREE Shipping).











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2. Go to "Control Panel" and click "System and Security"

3. Click "Backup and Restore"



4. Click "Create a system image"



5. Select a hard drive for saving the backup image; make sure the hard drive or USB drive has enough free space.



6. Back up your system drive (usually the C drive) and click "Next"



7. Wait for the backup process to complete (it took more than 3 hours to back up my C drive, which has about 500 GB of data).

8. At the end, it will ask you if you want to create a "Repair Disc." You need a blank DVD+R/-R disc for creating the repair disc.

It's a good idea to create a repair DVD disc, in case your PC crashes and won't boot up; the repair DVD disc can boot the PC up for repair.

Note: The backup task creates a WindowsImageBackup folder on the target hard drive or USB drive. The content of the folder is not readable.
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PostPosted: Fri, Sep 13 2013, 9:26 am EDT    Post subject: Re: Steps to back up your Windows 7 PC Reply with quote

Thanks for the info. I just bought the 1TB USB drive to back up my PC.

I plan to store a snapshot image of the C: drive to the 1TB USB drive from time to time, in case my PC crashes unexpectedly. Wink
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