1. Use the system restore function to back up the operating system
System Restore can be performed under the Windows XP graphical interface. If you can't enter the graphical interface, you can also do it in the command line mode.
(1) Start system restore function
By default, Windows XP system restore function is enabled. If the system restore function is turned off, you can start it as follows:
Click the "Start → Control Panel" menu item, double-click the "System" icon in the dialog box that appears, open the "System Properties" dialog box. Click the System Restore tab and click to cancel the Turn off system restore on all drives option. Then select the disk or partition where the system is located in the drive list, click the "Configure" button, click the "Close the system restore of this drive" option in the dialog box that appears, and set the disk space for system restore. . Click "OK" to open the system restore function of the partition.
(2) System Restore under the graphical interface
Click the "Start → All Programs → Accessories → System Tools → System Restore" menu item to open the "System Restore" dialog box, click Select the "Create a restore point" option, click the "Next" button, name (description) the restore point in the dialog box that appears, click the "Create" button to create a new restore point. When the restore point is created, the current state of the system partition will be saved. Once the system has a problem, it can be restored to this state.
When performing the restore operation, you can click the "Restore my computer to an earlier time" option from the "System Restore" dialog box, click the "Next" button, the dialog box that appears In the calendar, first select the date you want to restore, and select a restore point in the list of restore points. Click the "Next" button to start the restore. After the restart, the system returns to the restore point state.
(3) to restore the system
in command-line mode, press the F8 key to display the boot menu when Windows XP starts, select "with Command Prompt Safe Mode" in the Start menu, Log in as an administrator and type "%systemroot%\\system32\
estore\
strui.exe" at the command prompt. After the carriage return, you can restore the system to the normal state according to the wizard on the screen.
2. use cloning software to back up the operating system
Ghost
is the most commonly used cloning software, it can be made into a hard disk or hard disk partition or image file Folks Copy it to another hard drive and hard drive partition. After Ghost
restores the image file to the hard disk partition or hard disk, it is guaranteed to be the same as the data and backup.
(. 1) with a backup system partition
Ghost
perform backup and restore preferably carried out at DOS
state. After running Ghost
, the “About” dialog box will be displayed first, and the “OK” button will be clicked to enter the main interface of Ghost
. In the main interface, select the "Local" → Partition → To Image menu command to make the partition into an image file.
Next, the program asks you to select a hard drive, if there are multiple hard disks can be determined according to the size of the hard disk, if two identical hard disc can be judged according to the order and from the primary IDE interface master disc In front, from the back. Then the program asks you to select the partition and select the system partition to be backed up.
In the dialog box that appears, first select the disk partition where you want to save the image file (the remaining space of this partition should be larger than the used space of the system partition), and name the image file, then click "Save" ( Save) button. Next, the Compressed Image File dialog box will appear. You can select options such as No (no compression), Fast (low compression ratio, faster), High (high compression ratio, slower speed), etc., depending on the machine configuration. After selecting "Yes" in the confirmation dialog, the image file of the system partition is created.
(2) recovering the system partition
make a good system partition image file, it means for a complete backup of your system, once the system then there is a problem, as long as the system image file from It will be fine to recover.
In the Ghost
main interface, click the “Local→Partition→From Image” menu command, and then in the image file dialog box that appears, browse the location of the image file. After selecting it, click the "Open" button to import it.
Next, the program asked to select the image file to restore destination drive and partition, be sure to select the right here, if an error occurs, all data in the target partition will be overwritten, select "Yes" to start the recovery partition After selecting After the recovery work is finished, restart the computer, and the system partition is restored to the original health state.