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Thread ID: 119504 2011-07-26 08:30:00 How to copy w7 setup to a backup machine ? Digby (677) Press F1
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1219236 2011-07-26 21:06:00 20 mins depending on drive size. Win7 has a good built in imaging setup but I use Active@ which is about $50 because I image over a network and home premium can't do that. I can insert the boot disc and browse all the data in my image if I need a particular file as well. It has saved my bacon once or twice gary67 (56)
1219237 2011-07-27 00:41:00 Windows 7 is agnostic, it doesnt matter what hardware you dump an image on, it will install the relevant drivers for the hardware.....
Redirect your documents etc to a secondary drive which you backup, image the main c: drive and then create a recovery CD...

If anything happens to the C: drive or other the PC period, you can dump the image down to a new drive or PC and you have your data on a 2nd drive and backed up!
SolMiester (139)
1219238 2011-07-27 02:12:00 Windows 7 is agnostic, it doesnt matter what hardware you dump an image on, it will install the relevant drivers for the hardware.....
Redirect your documents etc to a secondary drive which you backup, image the main c: drive and then create a recovery CD...

If anything happens to the C: drive or other the PC period, you can dump the image down to a new drive or PC and you have your data on a 2nd drive and backed up!

This is pretty much what I do, daily data backups and monthly image to a server
gary67 (56)
1219239 2011-07-27 07:57:00 Windows 7
control panel
backup & restore
Create a system image
nmercer (3899)
1219240 2011-07-28 17:37:00 I have a 2nd hard drive installed on my PC and use Casper to create an image to the
2nd HD - the machine is dual bootable. Actually, I disconnect the power to the back-up HD - makes booting up much quicker - then reconnect whenever I want to make a back up.
Fishb8 (484)
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