Hi Salt
I found a comprehensive site.
The firsr part has to do with back up and is in the form of an attachment.
The second is recovery and the notes are from some information I compiled.
Win 7 recovery
A-Backup =select “let me choose” and selectyour files you want backed up besides the ‘system’ you also check off.
B-Recovery
1- Open Recovery by clicking the Startbutton , and then clicking Control Panel.In the search box, type recovery,and then click Recovery.
Click Advanced recoverymethods.
Click Use a system image youcreated earlier to recover your computer, and then follow the steps.
2- F8
3- rescuedisc
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It appears that you can select files to be backed up, or not, and also a system image with them.
Would it be accurate to say that you could retrieve a lost file this way if it was lost?
Peter