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I have done this twice before, but did not write about it.  Windows Backup provides an option to make a system image of the C: drive, and optionally of other drives.  This system image is the simplest and safest way I have found to restore my system after a catastrophic drive crash.  I have done it once before, and it worked well.  My regular backups do preserve the data, but rebuilding from scratch is a big project even if the source material is available.
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To do this, you bring up the Backup program and click on the left side..."Create a System Image."  I put these images on drive U: and right now, there is an image I created 3/21/2012.  There should be room for another snapshot, but there is a warning that old system images might be overwritten.  That is ok, because what is there now is pretty old.
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Creating a new disk from the image can be done using a bootable system recovery disk, which I have in my physical DVD files.

Revision as of 22:34, 2 August 2012


This page links to a record of stuff I have done to maintain ejbdesk1, my core i5-based windows 7 machine

Thunderbird Issues

Great tool, but sometimes it loses its way.

Email Accounts

Setting up my email servers right.

Added Backup Drive

MOZY Issues

MOZY online backup works great, but issues come up sometimes.

The latest issue is that they blew out their prices to the point that it is not cost effective to use them anymore. Now I use Crashplan.

Switch User Shortcut

Adding a button to go directly to switch user

Print shares for MAC OS X

Using LPD to serve my WIN7 printer shares.

Failed V drive

A poster child for having a backup strategy!

Deleting Too Long Folder and its Containing Tree

Removing Print Drivers

Things were getting messy, and I needed to re-do print drivers from scratch. Surprisingly hard to remove multiple drivers for the same hardware.

Context Menus and File Associations

Replacing V drive

V drive showing SMART errors. No real failure, but SMART errors indicate failure soon, and are enough to justify warranty replacement.

System Rebuild - Lost MBR on C drive

C: drive seems to have failed, and the untested drive image I had created did not succeed in a bootable replacement. The saga of the re-build.

Random Blue Screen Crashes

I have not seen these, but I keep finding that the machine has rebooted.

Uninstalling KB971033

Microsoft added this update to help fight pirated versions of Windows, but it is very annoying.

SMART warning on C drive

Windows update failing

Making a system image

I have done this twice before, but did not write about it. Windows Backup provides an option to make a system image of the C: drive, and optionally of other drives. This system image is the simplest and safest way I have found to restore my system after a catastrophic drive crash. I have done it once before, and it worked well. My regular backups do preserve the data, but rebuilding from scratch is a big project even if the source material is available.

To do this, you bring up the Backup program and click on the left side..."Create a System Image." I put these images on drive U: and right now, there is an image I created 3/21/2012. There should be room for another snapshot, but there is a warning that old system images might be overwritten. That is ok, because what is there now is pretty old.

Creating a new disk from the image can be done using a bootable system recovery disk, which I have in my physical DVD files.