Backing up whole computer
I know, I know....I should have been doing this all along but never have partly due to fear and this question... So when I back up the total computer to CDs (I don't have an extra modem & am not ge...
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jcpainter wrote:
... If, on the other hand your operating system gets corrupted and crashes . . . you can't use the full system backup to restore your "stuff". If you did, you'd be restoring the corrupted files. Full system "image" backups don't give you the choice to backup or restore just what you want. It's everything or nothing.
When Windows gets corrupt and crashes, you must rebuild from scratch. ...
When your system gets corrupted and crashes is ESPECIALLY when you need the system backup. In that case, you need to boot from a boot disk that the backup program allows you to create ahead of time. The boot disk allows you to boot the system and run the recovery program which will restore your system using the system image.
Also, many system image backups allow you to "mount" the image as another drive which allows you recover individual files without restoring the whole image.
