Here you go. To back up your installation, do this:
1. Connect a formatted disk either as a slave disk or as an external USB
disk.
2. Boot the machine with a Windows 7 Repair CD
(
http://neosmart.net/blog/2009/windows-7-system-repair-discs/)
3. Use robocopy.exe to copy the System drive to the backup disk
(
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...9-57FF-4AE7-96EE-B18C4790CFFD&displaylang=en=
To restore your disk:
1. Partition and format the new disk under Windows 2000 or higher.
2. Mark the System partition active.
3. Connect your backup disk either as a slave disk or as an external USB
disk.
4. Boot the machine with a Windows 7 Repair CD.
5 Use robocopy.exe to copy backup disk back to the System disk.
6. Make sure to disconnect the backup disk before booting up.
Both copy processes will be much slower than commercial imaging tools and
the backup process will not compress your data.
"Dennis" <den942@bright.net> said this in news item
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> I definitely would like to know more on doing that.
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> Pegasus [MVP] wrote:
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>> "Dennis" <den942@bright.net> said this in news item
>> news:fIadnTog27VfeuvWnZ2dnUVZ_vednZ2d@bright.net...
>>> Can a complete back up, made with Windows back up, be used to
>>> restore Windows on a new replacement hard drive?
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>> I don't think so but if you just want to transfer an existing Windows
>> installation to a new disk then there are methods to do it with native
>> Windows tools, without using any third-party software. Post again if you
>> need further details.
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