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    Best way to back up boot drive

    I'm moving to Windows 7 from Windows XP home, and I've seen variations of this question on here, but can't work out which solution is best for what I want, so I'd appreciate some advice.

    I keep only my OS stuff/program files on C: which is the boot drive, and keep all my data elsewhere.

    What I like to do is a clean install of Windows, put all my programs on with my settings , then when it's just as I want it, copy an image of it to an external hard disk.

    Then, every few months when I want a clean install to get rid of the rubbish I've accumulated, I just restore the image over the C: drive and I've got a clean install in a couple of minutes (apart from updates). Saves hours of messing about each time.

    That's all I want a copy/clone/backup utility to do, nothing else.

    On XP I've been using Acronis True Image 10, but that doesn't work on Win 7.

    What's the simplest way to do this in Win 7 pse?
    Can you just............................?

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    Re: Best way to back up boot drive

    I do something similar to what you wish to do, I have win7 and use acronis ti 9, but instead of making/restoring the disk image from within windows I installed ti just to create the bootable disk on cd (the ti 10 install disk may be bootable already), when I wish to make/restore an image I just boot from this disk and all the options are there.

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    Re: Best way to back up boot drive

    Quote Originally Posted by Nerval View Post

    That's all I want a copy/clone/backup utility to do, nothing else.

    On XP I've been using Acronis True Image 10, but that doesn't work on Win 7.

    What's the simplest way to do this in Win 7 pse?
    Start > Backup and Restore > Create a system image

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    Re: Best way to back up boot drive

    Quote Originally Posted by vinnyT View Post
    I do something similar to what you wish to do, I have win7 and use acronis ti 9, but instead of making/restoring the disk image from within windows I installed ti just to create the bootable disk on cd (the ti 10 install disk may be bootable already), when I wish to make/restore an image I just boot from this disk and all the options are there.
    That is what I do.

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