Windows 7 System Image Restore Tutorial
Wednesday, November 10th, 2010 at
2:37 am
I just decided to do a quick video showing how to create a system image using Windows 7, where to save that image to, and how to restore that image later on. Note: After restoring the image, you will have to re-enable write back cache in Intel Matrix Storage Console, Turn off Windows write back cache buffering in Device Manager, and also reconfigure your sound card audio settings. Many of these I went over in my "Windows 7/OCZ Vertex Turbo Tweaks" videos I invite you to check out my newly created website, and subscribe to the forums!!! www.sirjamesd.com
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thx dude
so is exactly the same as when you first bought? like what if you deleted some important folders in the local disk? would the recovery help recover the important files?
Thanks for the tutorial.
One thing to consider next time. You included RAID shit in there that will confuse most people, plus you ramble about a bunch of irrelevant issues like firmware and overclocking. A good tutorial mentions nothing beyond the bare basics required to instruct the said topic.
im trying to do this on my laptop(just bought a laptop and an intel 80gb and thought it was gonna work but im getting an error
ohh ok thx but if u could make a system image with the windows 7 whats the point of buying or downloading other software -.-?
@thebountyking Absolutely yes.
does that mean i can set the system back to the day it was purchase? (no virus, no extra software just brand new ) answer as soon as possible
can you save the image on a external hard drive and restore from there?
@R3APERvsTYETREE How I do it is I’ve got all drives set up how they will be when I restore the image.
I’d get info off whatever drive you’re gonna pull before the image is created.
@SirJamesDDJ Ah ok so if i invest in usb external drive for my image back up, i can install my image from that to my new drive then simply remove the external usb drive and then add my other drives as normal.
Also i was told if i restore image i have to have my drives conected aas they were when the image was created or it wont work, is that true if so i could pull extra drives before i create image.
Thanks man you have been a great help
@R3APERvsTYETREE Pretty much that’s why I save the image to an external, if I understand your plight correctly
Nice i have had my wiondows backup everyday since the last install, but ive never actually restored fro image yet so this was very helpful.
Now my next question will be.
When i install windows i do it with only the drive i want windows on, cus if i install with all my drives connected then remove one later i get that failed to find boot sector error, if i restore windows to my ssd and obviosly will need the backup image drive connected, if at any point i need to remove it can i still boot?
@SirJamesDDJ is it Even posible to restore whit no Disc ? cause its my taskbar its very very old one i press on windows 7 Right ? And its the same
i press on It it dosen’t says anything
Will your device drivers be in the system image??
And I have multiple hard drives, can I select which one to restore to?
What’s the difference between System Image and System Repair?
@CliftonRX7 What’s that?
you sound like the guy from fridaynightpranks
@holycow131415 i do not think this is in VISTA but when you do this image restore thing when you create it it will back up the whole drive including windows and but everything back the way it was
Is this imaging tool in Vista? Also, do you have to install windows first before implementing the image or does the image reinstall windows along with your files?
@djgroundzeroTO I’ve got Windows 7 64 Pro, and it restored everything perfectly the way it was.
Hey James, is this just like as if using GHOST? (i’ve never seen the program ghost but I hear of it all the time from the IT guys at my work) like since I got Windows 7 64-Bit installed will this restore my system back to 64 bit? or 32(cause u need the 32 bit disk to run the tools)?
uh… ok. “quick and dirty way of formating” is that better. i was just quoting sirjamesddj
made it the quote of the day!!! watch the whole vid please. lots of useful information 
thats JBOD man. but youre on the right track. RAID 0 is striping for increased performance. raid 1 is mirroring. RAID 3/4 is striping and redundancy. minumum 3 drives. 2 for striping and one for parity. RAID 5 is striping with 3 or more disks. raid 6 is 4 or more drives. striped disc with dual parity. raid 10 is minimum 4 drives. 2 drives hold one half of striping and other 2 does other half. really good redundancy. raid 01 is striping 2 drives and then anotehr 2 drives to mirror the first 2
@shizdank.
hey man i dont mean to be an ass but reinstallng winodws with a full format is just as clean as reimaging your drive as both ways wipe the partition tabela dnall data is erased. so this would be the better option. cause you have all your programs preinstaled
hey i have a question. i wanna do this and create a raid with my 10k rpm harddrives and another for my 2 storage drives. so after you back it up and start putting it all back on does everything get reinstalled on its original harddrives. also do the harddrives you wanna use for the raid have to be the same size and is there that much more of a performance increase with a raid. great video by the way.