Glad I Had an Image

Although I had never needed a back-up image I made one in June of 2011. Yesterday my computer crashed, and although I could open it in Safe Mode the "Restore" could not fix whatever the problem was.

I had never gone through the recovery procedure using an image of the system, but I did yesterday. Although time consuming it worked, and the system is working fine. I was very glad that I had also backed up last years income tax as I need to import it for carry forward things like stock losses, etc.
So all went well, and although it took a long time to update Windows my computer is worklng well.

I am not so confident that I want to write over the 2011 image so am getting another mobile external drive to image this new image. I think that if I did it on the same external drive it would overwrite the 2011 image.

I guess it would be well to reimage every year at least.
What is the advice here?
Thanks,
Jerry

 

One of them times you can pat your self on the back for making a image and well worth the time it took.Kudos

 

Jerry,

Good work. Restoring an image to fix a disaster is very satisfying.

Maybe we can streamline your backups. Which app did you use for the image/restore?
How large is your C: drive and how much Free Space is present?
How large is your external HD?

 

I used the W7 tool from the Control Panel.
I have a 500 Gig external drive. The image was less than 90 gigs. I have a 1 TB mobile hard drive on order to make another image of each of my computers.
I just do not want to overwrite the one I have on the external HD.

My C drive is a 750 gig drive. There are 588 gigs not in use. I am not very savvy so don't want to get into anything very complicated.

ADD
I often read that someone makes an image to have in case an AV causes a crash. It does take a lot of time.
Thanks,
Jerry

 

https://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?p=2133421#post2133421

See Post #4.

 

Thanks, Brian.
Jerry