system image

Just bought a 1TB external hard drive for use to back up files and system. Now, i understand Windows 7 backup will not back up Program Files and System files even if they are selected, instead that i done by creating a system image. Am i correct in saying that when i go to 'Let me choose' in the...

I just installed a new internal HDD. First, I created a system image using windows backup. Then I made a windows recovery disk on CD. Next I took out the old HDD, and replaced it with the new one. The new one is hooked up to a different port with a different wire because it is a sata 6.0 gb/s...

hi, experts, I havent used windows VISTA, I dont know whether this is a new feature of windows 7 I would like to know how many times I can restore the computer. is it limited? for example, the no. of times to change the dvd region is limited.

Hi guys, I have a problem with my Windows 7 x64 installation. I have played with a Playstation3 HDD and I have really screwed my Windows 7 partition table. I have tried booting with the setup dvd and tried everything there (startup repair, bootfix from cmd, etc) but nothing seems to work. I...

I currently have 3 SATA drives. 1.5TB x2 and 1TB x1 Drive partitions as following: C: 499GB D: 897GB E: 499GB F: 897GB G: 931GB I am installing a new 2TB SATA 3 drive, but on SATA 2 mode for now. New config of drives will be quite similar except for that I will be merging the partition of the...

Hello, I am running Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit in Classic mode. My system specs are listed below my signature. Before installing a program today I went to create a system restore point. In System Properties > System Protection I see that in Protection Settings > Available Drives there are...

My hard drive was showing up as having a lot of Seek errors so I decided to do the SMART thing (sorry!) and replace it before it failed completely. I took a full backup and created a system image that I then restored to a new disk using a rescue DVD. On restart the system wouldn't boot...

I looked at this & I like this method for making a complete backup of my entire system. I use about 120GB of 400GB total on my x64 HP laptop and it has Windows 7 Home Premium installed. I am leaning towards a external device other than CD's so what would you recommend for this. If you don't mind...

Hello. OK, this is not a Windows 7 related/caused problem, but as I am desperate for help and have received excellent help on this site in the past, I thought I might try anyway. When I started up my other PC this morning, it never got past the first screen, the one where I have a choice of...

Hi, I had created a system image via Control Panel/Backup And Restore and had it residing on an external drive. That was about a year ago and I felt the time had come to make a new image to better reflect the state of things. So the other day I deleted the image and opened up in order to...

Hi Everyone, Im hoping someone can help me here. Im currently a system builder and ive just got into using the windows 7 opk for installing customized versions of windows 7 on my customers pc's. I would like to have a recovery system in place similar to the big brands such as Dell and Acer...

I recently got a new computer with W7. I am trying to use the Windows7 backup program. It works well. I just did a full system backup (image) to my external hard drive. I deleted a file and was able to bring back the individual file. NOW, I am not sure how to do future backups. I would like...

I was using windows 7 backup feature for my system image backups. The problem I'm having is that each time it created an image backup to my (E drive -320 Gb, set to back up daily, my hard drive space kept getting smaller. A 320 gb drive reads at 298 gb then the backup created would be between 70...

I will be getting a new PC with WIN 7, 64-bit and an INTEL i7 Extreme Edition processor. I would like to know if I will be able to use a System Image Backup that was created in my old PC that has WIN 7, 32-bit version. Can this be done? Will the 32-bit version have have 64-bit performance in the...

Hi Everyone, My hard drive stopped working yesterday, but luckily I have a recent complete system image on an external drive. I have since popped in another (different) internal hard drive to restore my image to. The problem is when I use the Windows 7 disk to get to the complete system image...

I just replaced the hard drive in my laptop using the system image technique. I recently did this on my desktop and was able to extend my c drive with the left over partition. I have my extra space on drive E and want to extend it to C. Why can't I do this? How can I do this? Link Removed

What is the difference between create a system image and create a system repair disk?

I want to format my computer (or not if i don't have to) and reinstall windows 7. I never created a system image and don't have recovery discs. Do i just insert the windows 7 disc and boot from the disc at start up? or do i have to format my computer first? If so how do so?

Hello all, this is my first post. I need some help with my computer I built myself. I want to format and/or reinstall windows 7 fresh. I have a couple problems though. I haven't made any system image disks nor do i have recovery disks. What are my options, or is it even possible?

Hi, Trying Windows 7 backup several times, the backup seems to work OK until it gets to creating a system image and then it hangs and fails. This is the error in the Event Viewer: "Windows Backup failed while trying to read from the shadow copy on one of the volumes being backed up. Please...