![]() Now if something goes awry with my applications or the operating system it only takes me 5 minutes to get a clean OS install. This time I launched the bootable recovery ISO I made with Reflect and booted into Macrium Reflect ,selected restore, selected the Windows 7 recovery image I made and 5 minutes later, that's right 5 minutes later had my computer up and running just as it was when I made the image earlier saving 12hrs of torture. So I deleted that whole partition and then rebooted back into the Ventoy bootable drive. I booted into the Ventoy boot menu, lauched EaseUS Partition master from the menu and then deleted all that work to test the backup image I made with Macrium Reflect. I copied the ISO I made to the Ventoy USB drive then rebooted. I used Macrium Rescue Media Builder (included with Macrium Reflect) to make an recovery boot ISO file for use with my Ventoy bootable USB drive. That took maybe 20 minutes at the most including verifying the image.Īfter making the backup image. If you gonna run windows I think it's a must. I cant say how important it is to have a second hard drive. I downloaded Macrium Reflect and installed it, then made a complete image of the harddrive to another drive. So that's roughly 12 hours of wasted time to install from scratch. Just to get to a point to make a backup of the harddrive. So I spent all of today installing drivers for the addon cards nvidia, sata 3.0, USB 3.0, installing all my applets such as winrar, 7zip, winmount, magiciso, ultraiso, etc. I got reading a few tech blogs and Macrium Reflect was praised as way faster then ghost and as a plus there's a free version of Reflect that does the same job as ghost but can be setup as backup software to boot. So that means install several applets, make another disk image, install some more applets, another disk image, repeat til I was ready to install my applications, then repeat again.Īs I said I used Norton Ghost in the past but it's very old software now. I used to use Ghost to make disk images and as I made progress getting the computer setup with applications. Spent all of today getting Window ready for my applications. Does matter that I have 100Mb download internet speed as the microsoft severs sputtered along dishing out the updates. I spent the rest of the night waiting for Windows updates to finish updating the OS. I also got an OEM HP Win 7 Ult with sp1 recovery media dvd with it. ![]() So yesterday I started the reinstall of windows 7 from scratch, I have an HP workstation that came with win 7 ultimate. Did this years ago and apparently Microsoft doesn't remember the hardware like it was suppose to. For example I recently did an upgrade to windows 10 from windows 7 and could not get windows 10 to activate. What's to much of a hassle for me is to spend 2 days reinstalling the OS, all my applets, then all my applications every time. ![]() Refer to my signature line for words of wisdom, expecially if you haven't considered proper backup in your computer operations. In addition, the whole point of having regular and complete backups are so when any type of mass storage fails, you have a backup copy and can restore to your new hard disk and be on your way. The typical SSD should last longer than the typical hard disk, yet we don't seem to spend all the angst over hard drive failing, which they do on a regular basis! Why would you compromise your system reliability and stability because years down the road the SSD may fail a few months earlier, and even that is pretty unlikely to be caused by excessive writes! While in a consumer environment, this is highly unlikely, in a 21st-century business, it is highly plausible. That means, to get over a guaranteed TBW of 70, a user would have to write 190 GB daily over one year (in other words, to fill two-thirds of the SSD with new data every day). That's the whole point, you need current data to restore if you need it! I don't think individual restore points are gigabytes, not that much changes.Ī typical TBW figure for a 250 GB SSD lies between 60 and 150 terabytes written. Yes, system restore does write to the drive.
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