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<table border="0" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1" width="100%" class="forumline"> <tr> <th class="thCornerL" width="22%" height="26">Author</th> <th class="thCornerR">Message</th> </tr> <tr> <td width="22%" align="left" valign="top" class="row1"><span class="name"><a name=""></a><b>Guest</b></span></td> <td class="row1" height="28" valign="top"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><img src="templates/subSilver/images/icon_minipost.gif" width="12" height="9" alt="Post" title="Post" border="0" /><span class="postdetails">Posted: Fri, Sep 13 2013, 9:26 am EDT<span class="gen"> </span>   Post subject: Re: Steps to back up your Windows 7 PC</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><hr /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><span class="postbody">Thanks for the info. I just bought the 1TB USB drive to back up my PC. <br /> <br />I plan to store a snapshot image of the C: drive to the 1TB USB drive from time to time, in case my PC crashes unexpectedly. <img src="images/smiles/icon_wink.gif" alt="Wink" border="0" /></span></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" height="1" class="spaceRow"><img src="templates/subSilver/images/spacer.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="22%" align="left" valign="top" class="row2"><span class="name"><a name=""></a><b>Madison</b></span></td> <td class="row2" height="28" valign="top"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><img src="templates/subSilver/images/icon_minipost.gif" width="12" height="9" alt="Post" title="Post" border="0" /><span class="postdetails">Posted: Thu, Sep 12 2013, 1:38 pm EDT<span class="gen"> </span>   Post subject: Steps to back up your Windows 7 PC</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><hr /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><span class="postbody"><span style="font-weight: bold">Steps to back up your Windows 7 PC<br> <br /><span style="color: red">(especially useful for restoring the Windows 7 system after a system crash)</span> <br /> <br />1. Make sure you have a USB drive/hard drive with enough free space. (Amazon has a good 1TB USB drive for $69.99; 2TB $119.99, FREE Shipping). <br /><center> <br /><table> <br /><tr> <br /><td> <br /><iframe src="http://rcm-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/cm?lt1=_blank&bc1=000000&IS2=1&bg1=FFFFFF&fc1=000000&lc1=0000FF&t=cranbforum-20&o=1&p=8&l=as4&m=amazon&f=ifr&ref=ss_til&asins=B005HMKKH4" style="width:120px;height:240px;" scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" frameborder="0">

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2. Go to "Control Panel" and click "System and Security"

3. Click "Backup and Restore"

4. Click "Create a system image"

5. Select a hard drive for saving the backup image; make sure the hard drive or USB drive has enough free space.

6. Back up your system drive (usually the C drive) and click "Next"

7. Wait for the backup process to complete (it took more than 3 hours to back up my C drive, which has about 500 GB of data).

8. At the end, it will ask you if you want to create a "Repair Disc." You need a blank DVD+R/-R disc for creating the repair disc.

It's a good idea to create a repair DVD disc, in case your PC crashes and won't boot up; the repair DVD disc can boot the PC up for repair.

Note: The backup task creates a WindowsImageBackup folder on the target hard drive or USB drive. The content of the folder is not readable.