How to quickly create a hard drive image in Windows 7?


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How to create a hard drive image Windows 7 Viruses, trojans and hard drive faults can cause data loss, then it’s good to have a full hard drive image backup! Thanks to Microsoft, Windows 7 has a built-in utility to quickly create a hard drive image.




You can copy the hard drive image to another hard drive, onto several DVDs, or even to a network location.

1. Click on Start and open the Control Panel
2. Click on System and Security

Windows 7 System and Security

3.
Click on the hyperlink “Backup your computer”:

Backup Computer Hard Drive Image

4. In the left pane click on “Create a system image”:

Windows 7 Create a Hard Drive Image

5. Select either another hard drive, a DVD recorder or a network location to copy your hard drive image to a remote place.

Copy Hard Drive Image

6. If you want to restore a hard drive image, repeat steps 1-3 and in the right pane on the bottom click on the hyperlink “Recover system settings or your computer”. You can only do that after creating a hard drive image.

Filed Under: Tutorials Tags: , , by sOliver - Friday, May 7th, 2010
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