drive image

Hi

I want to do a drive image on my Windows 7 laptop, i bought an external USB hard drive to do it.
can you surgest how to do it please?

You could try the built in system image utility.

Right click on your C drive. Properties, Tools, click on backup. In the upper left, indicate that you want to create a "system image". This can backup to your external hard drive as long as it's attached.

To restore, simply boot off your Windows 7 install media, choose repair, and pick restore from a system image. It should find it automatically on your external drive as long as it's attached.

Pretty simple and works well.

Sorry
i want to make an image of my hard drive, and put it on my USB drive.

Thanks fr the help.

I'd use Acronis True Image ... But Windows 7 can do this as pparks1 said...
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pparks1 said:

You could try the built in system image utility.

Right click on your C drive. Properties, Tools, click on backup. In the upper left, indicate that you want to create a "system image". This can backup to your external hard drive as long as it's attached.

To restore, simply boot off your Windows 7 install media, choose repair, and pick restore from a system image. It should find it automatically on your external drive as long as it's attached.

Pretty simple and works well.

If I do this, Will it ccreate an .ISO file

rich77 said:

If I do this, Will it ccreate an .ISO file

No, it does not create an ISO file.

Instead, it creates a folder called WindowsImageBackup on the device. Inside of that folder would be a subfolder for the machine being imaged. Inside of that folder are subfolders containing catalogs, .vhd files and other XML files.