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| Thread ID: 89338 | 2008-04-28 06:11:00 | Imaging after a reformat | John W (523) | Press F1 |
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| 663287 | 2008-04-28 06:11:00 | Hi there This PC hasnt been reformatted for nearly 2yrs now. I noticed that about 3mths after the reformat its performance started slowing down, and its been a very slow decline from there. So, Im wondering what I can do after its been reformatted and Ive loaded in my favourite selection of Software, that will reduce the time consuming task of reloading everything again after the next reformat, say a year or so from now. Now Im not very familiar with this aspect of a PC. Im guessing I need to take an image of everythig thats on the PC (after my softwares been loaded) so I can load in from that? If so, what do I take the PC image onto (a USB Drive?) and more importantly how do I go about, reimaging back onto the PC. Ive seen this done at a PC course I went to, and at a PC4Free class I attended, but Ive never got aroubnd to finding ore detail about the process. Ok, I will need to take a copy of my Email fines, is there anythig else I need to take a copy of (ignore my personal files which I back up regularly) ? Thanks in anticipation. John in Mosgiel |
John W (523) | ||
| 663288 | 2008-04-28 06:18:00 | The easiest thing to do is to make an image of the entire hard drive onto an external USB hard drive. This means that, when you feel it's time to reformat, you can get it back to exactly the point where you originally took the image. As for your email and other files, I'd look at downloading Microsoft's Synctoy (www.microsoft.com) software -- it enables you to keep folders on your hard drive synchronised with folders on an external hard drive. If you keep this backup current (I do mine every night), getting your computer back up and running using first the image, then the synchronised folders, is really a doddle. :-) |
davehartley (3487) | ||
| 663289 | 2008-04-28 06:22:00 | There are a number of imaging programs around these days. If you have a Seagate drive, you could use Seagate DiscWizard (free program), for instance. You really need a second HD in the computer to put the image on. Or at the minimum, a second partition on your one drive. |
rumpty (2863) | ||
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