Why To Create A Restore Disk ?

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A Restore Disk is likely one of the necessary tools that you just need in case you a poses PC. If you buy a computer from the computer magazine it comes full installed with an Operating System, usually Windows. It comes accompanied with a Failure Disk which lets you restore your original Windows installation in case of a fatal error.

OSes like Windows become slower with time. Even simple usage of this system like net surfing, can damage your registries by allowing to certain websites to install players, plug-ins and software. If you don’t install them you can’t do your job, so you you must install these. There are so much of computer programs today that you need to install on a fresh installed Windows to work with it, excluding device drivers, windows updates and patches, that a re-installation of Windows with all you need can take a long time, over a couple of hours. No speaking of specific configuration settings and user settings used everyday.

Is the reason why you may use a recovery solution, a sort of restoration of the Operating System. This can save you lot of time needed by a fresh install of your ...
... Windows Operating System|This will save your energy and energy of a new Windows installation}. You will surely have all your data and all your personal settings back in several minutes updated at the time when you made the decision to make a copy of your Windows partition. You don’t need special computer skills for this procedure. Another benefit is that it may be done on all Windows flavors (95, 96, 2000, XP, 2003, Vista, NT).

There are specialized accessories for this operation like Norton Ghost or Acronis True Image. They are all simple, fast, effective and no cost. How they work ? They create a clone of your required partition, in our case C:\ partition (if we presume the Windows installation is on C:\). This is an image file with all the files contained on that system partition: windows file system, profile files, device drivers and installed software. All files are copied on that image. So, it’s better to full install Windows with all its drivers, service packs if it’s the case, network configuration, software that you just use and specific user configuration. Just prior to do a copy of the Windows I recommend you make use of the computer for a few days, until you have the complete installation and configuration you need daily. Then just install Norton Ghost or Acronis. Follow the instructions (they possess help menu) for making a boot floppy disk or CD/DVD. Boot from it and do the copy of your Windows partition to an image file to a different partition. Reboot Windows from hard disk and save that image in a DVD or somewhere safe.

In time when your Windows installation will have problems, it will be slow, having problems and errors at boot time, you simply boot from the floppy/CD Norton Ghost disk and you select to restore your saved image file of a system which contains the Windows operating system itself.

Save your time and make an image of your operating system partition which enables you to restore Windows system later when the system might in time fail. Only use the recovery disk.