Permanent Restore Point

This is all sounding a bit over my head and and likely more involved than my simple needs. I have my back-up stuff on multiple externals (strictly for peace-of-mind). My machine will be 10 years old next year and have never needed to do anything more than restore point recovery and even that only a few times. Since I am aware of my limited computer-literacy I avoid doing anything that I am not 100% confident in my ability to achieve. Back in the Win95/ME days I did have to use the factory recovery discs for that rare disaster that would occur. However, I stayed with ME until I bought this W7 machine and it's been good to me. Never once had to do a re-install. To conclude, I appreciate all the advice but, it looks as though I'll be ok with regular restore point creation.

Nonetheless, this 'image back-up' thing interests me alot so I will study-up on it and hope I will gain a confidence for implementation. Thus, I will mark this topic 'solved'.

-thank you

SIW2 said:

As previously,mentioned you can create a system image.

If you have restore point created previously that you want to keep, you can mount it and create an image of it.

A simple way to do that is with system restore explorer to mount the restore point, then capture the mount point with dism++ or gimagex.

Hello Mr.SIW2
i know that it is an old thread but may you explain these steps in more detail.
never used dism++ or gimagex. just downloaded it now to check.
i would be very grateful. thanks a lot.

Brink said:

A system restore point will never be permanent.

The best option for this would be to create a system image instead.

thanks mr.Brink
appreciate your answer and it is so true.
i had experienced this that till this date created restore points were not available when needed the most.
they were all deleted no matter what you do.
i have allocated 15gb space for restore point on new installed os which had 100gb free space and yet it was deleted in 2 days.

i was just trying to understand the method which mr.SIW2 had mentioned.
never heard or read that anywhere so i was curious as well.

i have used restore point and system restore explorer.
i have also mounted the restore point with system restore explorer.
but after that i do not know what to do.
what does it mean that " then capture the mount point with dism++ or gimagex".

thanks a lot again for your time and effort.
really appreciate it.

it just the size and time of restore points which attracts the most.