Win 7 does not need to use Ghost for backup (1)

When it comes to system restore, the first thing we think of is probably the famous Ghost. In addition to being a basic system backup, Ghost can also be used directly for system clone installation, which also makes it It has become the most widely used system recovery and installation tool in recent years. However, you may not know that since the WindowsME era, the Windows system has been added to the system restore function, but there are very few real use of this feature.

reason, partly because the System Restore feature to take up some disk space, which for the time disk space is relatively valuable case, it appears the "luxury" of something, the other is more important is if For some reason, the computer can't be started, which means that the system restore you set will be completely set.

In WindowsVista era, it introduces the ability to restore the system image, but compared with the Ghost, it is no place commendable - Backup longer; image file compression ratio is too low, resulting in images The file size is "unacceptable"; there are too many backup restrictions, and a free custom backup of the file cannot be achieved, and the restore is slow. All of this has led to its new "chicken rib" function, which has not been widely used and recognized.

but in Win7, all this has been changed, especially in recent strengthening of the system image recovery, compared with the Ghost is more evenly divided, and even some of the more intimate functions.

create an image more flexible than Ghost

create a system image has become very easy, just click on "All Programs → Maintenance → Backup and Restore" in the Start menu in Win7, you You can see the link "Create System Image" on the left and click to open the Create System Image window. The whole process of the creation process, the user needs to do is to select according to the prompts, and click "Next", it is not an exaggeration to say, as long as you know Chinese, you can create an image.

Further, when specify a location for the backup file, outside the local hard disk may be selected in addition, a removable disk or a recordable DVD disc, a network may also choose to save position (FIG. 2), although simply increasing The setting of the network location gives us more choices and more solutions. Important

, compared with the Ghost, Win7 image function has a big advantage is that you can freely add other partitions and directories to map the list, and time to complete the backup job.