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Answer» Hello everybody ! I know that for a lot of you, guys, my question would sound simple and stupid. But I don't know about that, so I'm asking. Let's say I did a BACKUP of my OS to my external hard drive using some backup software. Then one day my hard drive has gotten broken or whatever. On a new/reformatted hard drive I'm installing then my OS from mentioned backup. My question is: my programs (third party apps) that I had installed before would have been on my computer installed or I still have to install them again. As we know installing all programs again (especially if you have a lot) is a real pain in NECK. Do my PERSONAL settings stay the same on my computer then ? I use my external hard drive to back up my video files but I have never used one for this purpose. If you use DISK Imaging software everything will be the same as when you created the image.As Allan says, if you make a disk image what you would get back is an exact copy of your OS and all installed programs, My Documents, emails, etc, just as they were at the TIME you made the disk image backup. As long as they were all on the drive you made a backup of. Windows 7 has a disk image backup tool built in and I use it around once a week. Each disk imaging software package has its own bootable "rescue CD" that you can use to recover your system. You have to burn this onto a CD-R. Usually there is a wizard to guide you in this, and if you use Windows 7 built in imaging, there is a Rescue CD image you can download and burn, or you can use the Rescue Environment on the Windows 7 install DVD. |
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