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Windows 7 Forums uses Paragon Backup & Recovery 10 to demonstrate why it is always better to perform a bare-metal backup, as opposed to a live backup using Windows Backup or other products. This demo explains how to perform a bare-metal backup and restore in a two part series.

hi i want to create a system image and save it to an alternate hard drive, however I am wondering if it will erase all the data of that drive? Does it need to format or be on a clean drive? Or can I do it and it will make a file or directory despite there being other data on there... kinda...

Hello, this post just to share experience about a solved problem:upset:. I had to perform a clean install of Windows8 on an OEM ultrabook delivered with Window7 Pro preinstalled since I have been unable to boot the delivered Windows 8 Pri DVD Pack after converting the MBR delivered SDD to GPT...

I have a Dell Inspiron 1721 connected to a new Seagate external hard drive. The Inspiron has 280GB of which 85 are free. The Seagate has 465GB with 445GB free. Several times I have attempted to back up the Inspiron and so far have been unsuccessful. The message I get is: Your last backup...

Short story: Try to run Windows 7 Backup (x64) and get a blank page with the helpful message "page missing". Acronis is responsible, but I want to know how to get it back. Background: I decided to try the Acronis Home 2012 backup software. Huge, huge, huge mistake. After installing it, I...

I was contemplating using a Raid 0 array as my primary C: drive with OS. I understand all the issues with that and do regular daily backups. I used to use Acronis which had no trouble with a raid array. But on this new build I was wondering if the built in backup tools would be able to image and...

Hey, so i used windows back up last night and came down in the morning to see that a file on my computer, which was labeled the same as the back up, is missing, although should i use the search function, i can still run them, such as SC2 which was on there as well as alot of other important...

Have my backup destination selected, free and total space is displayed, DVD+RW inserted, but the 'next' button is not highlighted...it just sits there, I can't select any more options or continue. Knowing me, I probably overlooked something simple. Any help very much appreciated. Thanks...

Describes an issue in which Windows Backup performs a full backup of media files that are shared on networked players or on media devices. This issue occurs in Windows 7. Link Removed

After trying to make a backup to external drive I get this "Backup skipped backing upE:\ as it is on the backup target." I thought that I only am backing up C drive and system image. This message is stated 3x in notepad as I viewed which files were probamatic. How do I fix this?

============================================================== sorry, i was wrong, ignore the tilte please, because i not using english OS at the time, so i directly translated the message, but the actuall mesage is: The selected volume is on a dynamic disk when i select the location to...

How do I control how much disk space my Windows Backup takes up? I have a 1TB external disk for backups and other files. My computer's HDD only has about 250GB capacity. I don't know why my backups file got so bloated. What should I do? I see that I can delete the older backup file: 22-Oct...

Hi, I tried backing up last night. Took 3 hours but I digress. When it finished it stated it didn\t complete properly. BUT there are two files on my external drive. One named after my computer but says it is empty (treated as a folder). The other file says MediaID.bin 0 kb. When I check...

I've run out of space on my 320G "C" drive, and would like to add a second identical hard drive in a RAID 0 array on my Gigabyte EP45-DQ6 motherboard to improve both speed and space. This, of course, means wiping out the existing OS, and I don't want to do a fresh install if I can avoid it. I...

I have just upgraded to Windows 7 from Vista Business. It had to be a clean install so I backed up Vista and my files to an external hard drive using Windows Backup. The only emails (.dbx) available now in windows.old were from a previous system, Outlook Express, which I have successfully...

Windows Backup doesn't detect my existing VHD file on the local hard drive I used Windows Backup to create a backup of my C: partition. Foolishly, I put it on drive D. Later, I realized that I shouldn't store it on the same physical disk with the C: partition, so I moved it to partition F: Last...

Hi, I recently installed Windows 7 home premium 64-bits. I upgraded it from a Windows vista business 32-bits. That was not trivial, but it worked fine. Problems came when a driver "classpnp.sys" made the system halt. Repair programs did not work until I copied another file over the driver and a...

in the past I have used Acronis TrueImage software to create full system images of my system. that way if somethign goes really wrong i can just restore the entire system from the acronis image and be good to go. It looks liek windows backup has a way of doing a full system backup/restore and...

Is there any way to restore a system image to a new SMALLER drive than that from which it was created, even though the image size is much smaller than the new drive? According to the help file it's not possible. Is there a work around? Maybe I could copy the files across then do a system...

Is there a way I can have the "Create system image" done daily. say as a scheduled task? I feel much more comfortable with that instead of the regular backup.