To help conserve disk space, delete older system images. If you're saving your system images in a network location, you can only keep the most current system image for each computer. If you already have a system image for a computer and are creating a new one for the same computer, the new system image will overwrite the old one.
If you want to keep the old system image, you can copy it to a different location before creating the new system image by following these steps. You can use a restore point to restore your computer's system files to an earlier point in time. Restore points are automatically created each week by System Restore and when your PC detects change, like when you install an app or driver.
Here's how to create a restore point. Select the System Protection tab, and then select Create. In the System Protection dialog box, type a description, and then select Create. To look through the contents of the backup, select Browse for files or Browse for folders. When you're browsing for folders, you won't be able to see the individual files in a folder. To view individual files, use the Browse for files option. To search the contents of the backup, select Search , type all or part of a file name, and then select Search.
Tip: If you're searching for files or folders associated with a specific user account, you can improve search results by typing the location of the file or folder in the Search for box. You can restore files from a backup that was created on another computer running Windows Vista or Windows 7.
Choose Select another backup to restore files from , and then follow the steps in the wizard. If you're restoring files from a backup that was made on another computer, the files will be restored in a folder under the user name that was used to create the backup.
If the user names are different, you'll need to navigate to the folder where the files are restored. For example, if your user name was Molly on the computer that the backup was made on but your user name is MollyC on the computer that the backup is being restored on, the restored files will be saved in a folder labelled Molly.
Select the Start button, then select Computer. The system image will remain small, so you can probably get away with a 1TB hard drive for backup. Comment from IanC Time April 4, at am. Comment from DevilMaster Time June 9, at am. Please, i need to know if, after creating the system image and you wish to restore on a new system both you also want to maintain you new OS let say image Win 7 and new system Win 8 , will the image over-write the new system OS?
Comment from Andy Rathbone Time October 8, at am. Restoring it will also restore that version of Windows. Comment from Andy Rathbone Time May 22, at am. JAK: This is true. Comment from BuckSkin Time August 17, at pm. Most helpful site! The entire contents of my C: drive is about GB. Do I need a separate dedicated external hard drive for my system image, or can I safely put it on the same 1TB ext. Comment from Andy Rathbone Time August 17, at pm. Buckskin: Yes, you can keep your system image on the same external hard drive.
Unless that drive is nearly full, you should have plenty of room. Comment from BuckSkin Time August 18, at am. Thanks for answering. Must I do anything special to protect my image files that are stored on the external hard drive, or do I just route the system image into a folder the same as I would for any file?
Comment from Andy Rathbone Time August 18, at pm. When you create a new system image, it overwrites the old system image in that folder.
Comment from BuckSkin Time August 18, at pm. That is good news to read. Approximately how much time should I plan on this System Image to take to accomplish?
Thanks so much. Comment from Andy Rathbone Time August 19, at am. BuckSkin: The time a computer requires when creating a system image depends mostly on how much data needs to be saved. For most people, the process usually takes between 15 minutes and an hour.
Comment from BuckSkin Time August 19, at pm. I just checked properties of both my C: and ext. Many many thanks. Comment from Andy Rathbone Time August 19, at pm. BuckSkin: Yes, that will be a problem. You will first need to reformat your external hard drive to NTFS. Doing so will wipe your drive clean, so copy anything you want to save to another hard drive for safekeeping during the process.
Comment from Faith Time October 4, at pm. Andy, thank you so much for the clear instructions! I have an old 1 terabyte harddrive from QVC, Clickfree, that had some clunky backup software on it.
After reading your instructions I was able to reformat the device to do a system image. There are some corrupted files CBS logs showed up on scan and Windows update is not functioning so I wanted to do a complete system image before I try and fix my system with the Repair disk.
Comment from BuckSkin Time October 15, at am. When I tried to create a system image, I kept getting a 0x error. I tried a dozen remedies to no avail until I read about moving the boot manager from the system32 volume to the C: drive using a program called EasyBCD.
I let EasyBCD relocate the boot manager and was instantly able to then create a system image without getting that dreaded error. Thank you so much for all of your knowledge; I have your PC repair book on my Christmas list. Comment from Andy Rathbone Time October 15, at am. Best Gaming Monitors. Best Android Phones. Browse All News Articles. Prey Predator Prequel Hulu. Window 11 SE Downgrade. Disney Plu TikTok. Windows 11 Default Browser Block.
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