The emergence of Ghost took several hours to reinstall the system and it was shortened to ten minutes. But because Ghsot's image file can only back up static information, we are very troublesome to back up important information all the time. What do you do with this situation? Is it a manual backup or not? If you accidentally forget which important file to back up, the loss can be large. So today we have a major surgery on the system and a dynamic update of the Ghost image file to minimize the loss of the recovery system.
The image file must of course start from the initial installation system (because the image file and the reinstallation system are no different at this time). This article uses WindowsXP as an example, and other systems are similar. First you need to install the operating system and drivers for each hardware, there is nothing to say. Let's talk about the places we need to set up:
1. Processing of commonly used files
When the driver is installed, it is necessary to install commonly used software. Software like Office has nothing to say, usually not. Need to update, the default installation is fine. However, for commonly used network software or frequently updated software, you should pay attention to the installation. For example, OICQ, FoxMail, firewall, anti-virus software, etc., because the data and version of these software often need to be updated during use, do not install it in the system directory when installing these software. Figure 1 is the dialog box that appears when installing QQ. Other software will also display a dialog box asking for the installation directory when installing. Generally, the default is installed in the Program Files directory of the partition where the system is located. I install it here. Under the Program Files of the F drive (of course, you can select any partition other than the partition where the system is located), so that the files updated during the use will be saved on the F drive. When the system is restored, these usually updated files still exist. .
2. My Documents
“My Documents Almost the most commonly used folder for users, the update speed is also very fast, so the backup & ldquo;My Documents” is necessary before restoring the system Prepare for work, but fortunately Windows has done a job in advance for us to back up this folder. Right click on "My Documents" and select "Properties", as shown in Figure 2, "My Documents", the default "Target Folder" is the folder where the system is located, "My Documents" folder. I have to change it to another partition here. If this place is not set, it can be set together below.
3. System update information
Friends who have used DOS know that files in DOS are generally created by users. Every file in the system can know where it is. What is the file name; but since using Windows XP, the system seems to be adding files every day, especially in recent years, combined with the Internet, when there are more files in the system, the user has no way of knowing, this also gives backup work. Brought difficulties. Is it necessary to manually back up these dynamically updated files before restoring the system? Of course not. Otherwise, my dynamic image file is not white?
Open the registry editor and expand the following address: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Software\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Explorer\\Shell Folders] (as shown in Figure 3), Here are the folders where the files with the fastest system updates are located, including "Favorites", "History", even the user's desktop is in it. The value of each item is the folder where the project is located, and “%USERPROFILE%” is a variable that refers to the folder where the current user is located (in the Documents and Settings folder of the partition where the system is located). We can put this variable. Change to a specific folder outside the partition where the system is located. For example, I want to move "Favorites" to F:\\Forever, where the value of "Favorites" is changed from “%USERPROFILE%\\Favorites” to "F:\\Forever\\Favorites". In the future, the favorites will be settled under F:\\Forever\\Favorites. Other information changes are the same.
The system setup we have done, now we have to use Ghost software to make an image file for our system. In the future, if the system needs to redo again, use this image file to engrave it back. If the software installed during the process cannot be run after restoring the system, you can reinstall the software again. The installation directory should be the same as the directory installed last time, so the original information will not be lost after installation.
With the above settings, we can reduce the trouble that the recovery system brings to us at the maximum capacity. But what if you installed a dual system? In fact, it is very simple. The first thing we have to do is to put the coincident parts of the two systems together, so that it is much more convenient to process.