Madison
Joined: Tue, Apr 6 2004, 5:38 am EDT Posts: 184
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Posted: Thu, Sep 12 2013, 1:38 pm EDT Post subject: Steps to back up your Windows 7 PC |
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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).
http://www.cranbury.info/viewtopic.php?t=5644
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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