{"id":796,"date":"2012-08-20T14:17:39","date_gmt":"2012-08-20T11:17:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/saisa.eu\/blogs\/Guidance\/?p=796"},"modified":"2012-08-20T14:20:48","modified_gmt":"2012-08-20T11:20:48","slug":"for-a-home-pc-remember-to-create-system-image","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saisa.eu\/blogs\/Guidance\/?p=796","title":{"rendered":"For a home PC, remember to create System Image"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Installation CD\/DVD&#8217;s are not always included when you buy a new home PC (desktop\/laptop). However, one day one might need to recover the PC. (Often it is a matter of time.) At that time, it is easily done by using a system image.<\/p>\n<p>System image need to be created early soon after PS has been taking into use, so that the system is still as &#8220;clean&#8221; as possible. Ideally system image is stored into separate media (DVDs), but storing on the same physical disk is better than nothing (ie. on logical drive D:).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Create System Image<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>By using Windows build-in tools<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/howto\/4241\/how-to-create-a-system-image-in-windows-7\/\">How to Create a System Image in Windows 7<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sevenforums.com\/tutorials\/663-backup-complete-computer-create-image-backup.html\">How to Create a System Image Backup in Windows 7<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Some manufacturers, like Packard Bell, include their own tools for the same purpose<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yoingco.com\/how_to_create_packard_bell_recovery_cds_dvds_discs_windows_7.htm\">CREATE WINDOWS 7 INSTALLATION DISCS<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>When you start a new computer, popup windows typically remind you about this important step.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Example<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Well, it happened to me, that one day I decided to remove several unnecessary software from my home computer. Unfortunately after reboot, some parts were no longer functioning. For some reason there were several problems related with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/products\/flashplayer.html\">flash player<\/a> and ATI graphic card. Finally after failed fixing attempts with flash software and graphic cards drivers, I restored the PC from a system image which had been created 1,5 years earlier, and luckily it worked!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" height=\"185\" alt=\"restore01\" src=\"http:\/\/saisa.eu\/blogs\/Guidance\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/restore01.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" height=\"182\" alt=\"restore02\" src=\"http:\/\/saisa.eu\/blogs\/Guidance\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/restore02.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" height=\"180\" alt=\"restore03\" src=\"http:\/\/saisa.eu\/blogs\/Guidance\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/restore03.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Installation CD\/DVD&#8217;s are not always included when you buy a new home PC (desktop\/laptop). However, one day one might need to recover the PC. (Often it is a matter of time.) At that time, it is easily done by using &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/saisa.eu\/blogs\/Guidance\/?p=796\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/saisa.eu\/blogs\/Guidance\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/saisa.eu\/blogs\/Guidance\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/saisa.eu\/blogs\/Guidance\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saisa.eu\/blogs\/Guidance\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saisa.eu\/blogs\/Guidance\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=796"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/saisa.eu\/blogs\/Guidance\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":799,"href":"https:\/\/saisa.eu\/blogs\/Guidance\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796\/revisions\/799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/saisa.eu\/blogs\/Guidance\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saisa.eu\/blogs\/Guidance\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saisa.eu\/blogs\/Guidance\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}