NaiyaShamiso
New Member
I don't back up my OS, seems to be a waste of space to me. I rather back up all my data and games with the little 2TB backup drive that I have.
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The thread discusses a user's negative experience with Windows 7, citing frequent crashes, blue screens, and update issues despite thorough hardware checks and updates. Respondents suggest providing crash dump files, updating drivers, or checking for hardware incompatibilities, with some users defending Windows 7 and criticizing the original poster's dismissive remarks. Overall, the conversation mixes frustration over technical problems with debates about personal OS preferences and the appropriateness of criticism.
The thread discusses a user's negative experience with Windows 7, citing frequent crashes, blue screens, and update issues despite thorough hardware checks and updates. Respondents suggest providing crash dump files, updating drivers, or checking for hardware incompatibilities, with some users defending Windows 7 and criticizing the original poster's dismissive remarks. Overall, the conversation mixes frustration over technical problems with debates about personal OS preferences and the appropriateness of criticism.
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whs
Extraordinary Member
That may work for you. But as a general rule it is not viable. If you have no images, the option in case of a major problem is a reinstall of the system, all updates since the dawn of time, all programs (appr. 50 in my case) all settings have to be redone, etc. Last time I did that, it took 3 days elapsed - mainly because the downloads take forever. E.g. WAIK alone takes over 1 hour (1.7GBs). Similar with big updates like SPs for the system and Office.
NaiyaShamiso
New Member
Oh no, don't get me wrong, I see why you would do it. I just don't thats all. I guess partly cause I enjoy installing the OS and software. If I invested in a licence for Ghost, I would most likely do it though. I might do that thinking about it now. Though I would do a full reinstall and then do the restore from there. Not to mention I would want to get my servers back up and running again as well.
whs
Extraordinary Member
No need to wait for Ghost (which I used for 3 years). Free Macrium is a lot better. I made a tutorial which can get you started. I like full images because they are easy to manage. But if you prefer differentials, use free Paragon. That is a good imaging program too, but a bit more difficult to use than macrium.
NaiyaShamiso
New Member
whs, will either of those work over the network?
Super Sarge
New Member
I backup daily using automatically using W7 generic to a different internal other than the OS Drive, I also backup weekly on Wednesdays using Macrium Reflect Pro to a completely different drive than the on I use on daily basis. I keep 3 weeks worth of backups on each drive. Gotta love redundancy 🙂. I have 4 internal drives
whs
Extraordinary Member
It can, but 50% of the time you cannot recover. Believe me. I have fixed a dozen of those cases.
whs
Extraordinary Member
The pro versions do. But you do not want to image over the network. You are talking 10GB to 40GBs of data depending on the amount of data on the partition. That would take hours.
NaiyaShamiso
New Member
My system wouldn't change that much after the original backup.
Super Sarge
New Member
I have never had a problem using W7 to recover to an earlier version on my primary machine. the reason I got Macrium Pro it allows you to recover to a dissimular Hardware then you have to re-activate with proper key you also have re-activate a few Programs, Office 7 comes to mind. I used it to put W7 on my laptop and then used the Extra Key I purchased back in 2009, worked like a champ
whs
Extraordinary Member
What kind of a system is that. You get updates all the time.
whs
Extraordinary Member
You were lucky. I had to reimage the Win7 VHDs with Macrium for a bunch of people. Win7 imaging is just no good - like system restore that works only half of the time.
NaiyaShamiso
New Member
Okay, yea that is true. I do have 7 Ultimate 64 Bit. But I haven't had an update in a little while. Though I can see how it could get up there quick. I have seen it before.
Drew
Banned
No, not over a network, although it can be done & is done
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Yes, usually just do an initial image (full system) back-up; thereafter just backup New or Changed Data.
Drew
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Yes, usually just do an initial image (full system) back-up; thereafter just backup New or Changed Data.
Drew
All I can say is that I have used Malwarebytes for many years and never had a false positive that I know of.
In addition I can say that it's what I use to remove viruses and Trojans from my friends computers.
I run it in safe mode from a usb stick and it has almost always done the job.
It seem especially good at getting rid of those fake Antivirus Scanner Trojans that pop up all the time.
After the malware is removed I install it on their computers and tell them to use in regularly (they usually don't) and eventually they call me agian.
In addition I can say that it's what I use to remove viruses and Trojans from my friends computers.
I run it in safe mode from a usb stick and it has almost always done the job.
It seem especially good at getting rid of those fake Antivirus Scanner Trojans that pop up all the time.
After the malware is removed I install it on their computers and tell them to use in regularly (they usually don't) and eventually they call me agian.
Andrea Borman
Essential Member
You have not got your operating system backed up? I thought that a computer expert like you would have back up images of your operating system. And that you would also have all of your original Windows CDs,so you could reinstall Windows.
So what do you do if something goes wrong with Windows and you have to do a reinstall? I hope you have not deleted your recovery partition. Because if you did you won't be able to do a system recovery to restore your computer to factory condition.
NaiyaShamiso
New Member
I back up only the important stuff, pictures, music, videos, save games, that kind of thing. If anything goes wrong with my OS I just scrap it and reinstall from a disk downloaded from MSDN. Its not hard, only takes about two days from start to running like nothing happened. I hardly ever have to do it, one maybe twice every three years. I have all my software saved on a 2 TB External drive, with all the SP. I never even have to let it get on the web till I install my Steam games and messengers. Though like I said, I rarely do it.
One, I am not an expert, and never have I said I am. I am good at what I do. Second, I know enough to not need any recovory system with a bunch of bloat ware and crap ware cramed in it. The recovory system is the first thing I delete when I get a new system. I install from a Windows install disk. No HP or Dell homo helper software crap. I choose what I want on my system at all times, and nothing more goes on it. As long as I have my important non-replaceable files backed up, the rest can be reinstalled. Yea it takes time, but I dont get paid or run the risk of getting fired from my home life. If this was work computer we where talking about then it would be a completely differnt story.
One, I am not an expert, and never have I said I am. I am good at what I do. Second, I know enough to not need any recovory system with a bunch of bloat ware and crap ware cramed in it. The recovory system is the first thing I delete when I get a new system. I install from a Windows install disk. No HP or Dell homo helper software crap. I choose what I want on my system at all times, and nothing more goes on it. As long as I have my important non-replaceable files backed up, the rest can be reinstalled. Yea it takes time, but I dont get paid or run the risk of getting fired from my home life. If this was work computer we where talking about then it would be a completely differnt story.
Andrea Borman
Essential Member
But backing up your program files is not enough.You need to back up your whole operating system.
Otherwise how are you going to reinstall your Windows 7,Windows XP or whatever version of Windows you have got?
You cannot just download it from the Internet. There are no Windows XP or Windows 7 operating system ISO files or downloads.
And you did not make the mistake of deleting your recovery partition did you?
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