restoration from systems image will it effect the non back up drives

Hi all,

I have dual boot windows systems (windows XP in c: drive and windows 7 in d: drive) and e,f,g and h drives (all are type basic ) are for my personnal data (not concerning with Operating systems) now i want to make systems image of c and d drive.

but i dont know what will happen when i try to restore the systems using this systems image. I mean will it effect the data in e,f,g or h drive or just re-format the c and d drive and restore the systems image from DVD.

does anyone has a concrete answer. i dont want to loose my data in e,f,g or h drive.

I have 6 partition on one HDD.
With dual boot (WIndows Xp and Windows 7 professional ). I will backup only c and d drives as only these two derive has the OS.


for futher refrence please see
http://www.sevenforums.com/installa...ll-effect-non-back-up-drives.html#post1480075




Hi
I have 6 partition on one HDD.
With dual boot (WIndows Xp and Windows 7 professional ). I will backup only c and d drives as only these two derive has the OS.


thanks in advance.

If you create a system image of your c and d drives only, your data drives will be unaffected when you restore from the image.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/675-system-image-recovery.html

However, on the grounds that Sod's Law can happen at any time it may be prudent to have your data drives backed up to an external hard drive first.