In Windows 7 backup restore program you can set a system image, the single file contains everything on your computers C drive. An external or portable hard drive is the perfect place to put this new system image. The system image takes much longer to make than a regular backup solution: make one maybe once a week. Once a C drive finally kicks the bucket or you upgrade to a faster larger Windows drive you'll be glad you made a system image.
If you're backing up to a portable hard drive now is the time to put that in, if you don't have a portable or external hard drive you can backup the files to a couple of DVDs or to a network location, these aren't the best places to back up your information but it is still better than nothing. Now you're going to click the start button, choose Control Panel, and then choose back up your computer from the system and security section, then choose create system image. Now you're going to choose where you want to save the image file. Then you click next on the following window, and the download will commence, this process will take about an hour per 200 GB of files, but you can still do stuff on your computer while this is going on.
so what's the difference between an system image and a regular backup you may ask? When you backup your computer you're just backing up all the files so that if you lose a few you can get them all back. When you make a system image you're backing up everything on your computer, this makes it so no matter what you can go back to exactly where you used to be.
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