System Image Recovery

mangoh said:

Quick question if someone doesn't mind answering :)

*Insert example to explain*

1) I install Windows 7 last month on drive ( C: )
2) I decide to create a system image on the same day
3) I have finished creating an system image and have had it created on another partition but on the same Hard Disk Drive ( D: )
4) A week after creating a system image I decide to do some work and I save a word document in the "My Documents" folder
5) I decide to restore the system image that I had created last month.

Now when restoring the system image does that mean I will have to backup the word document (step 4) as I had created & saved it AFTER step 3?

Surely when I restore the system image it will erase all my documents etc... and then restore w/e was in the my documents folder before I had finished creating a system image?

Hello Mangoh,

That's correct. If you don't backpup the document before doing a system image recovery, you will lose it since the document was after the image was created. :)

Thanks nice and easily explained :)

Understood.

Edit: "Backpup" lol nice...

My next question is if that's the case where can I find the my documents stored that a system image has created i.e. where in the WindowsImageBackup folder?

A system image is not really meant for restoring single files from it. This a complete computer image backup that when restored, restores the complete image.

To backup and restore files, you may wish to use Windows Backup instead to have available to restore from.

With that said, you could use the tutorial below to mount your image to restore files from. :)

System Image - Extract Files Using Disk Management

Hello Mike,

Sorry to hear about your RAID 1.

You will be able to do a system image recovery with your created system image on either a single disk or on a RAID 1 again. It's really just up to for how what you would like to do. :)

If you wanted to use RAID 1 again, then it would be much easier to set it up first, then do the system image recovery. You'll just need to have your RAID drivers handy say on a USB flash drive to use the Load Drivers option during step 5 in Option Two here to get to the System Recovery Options screen.

If you use the "To do a full system image recovery", then it will restore all partitions and everything that was in the system image. This way when it's finished, you will not have to do anything else later.

Hope this helps, :)
Shawn

Great news Masplin. :)

Hello iFeelLikeANoob, and welcome to Seven Forums.

If you mean a system image you saved to the external HDD, then no it will not be affected when doing a system image recovery.

Hope this helps, :)
Shawn