Backing up the entire Windows operating system with its folders and profiles allows you to avoid irreversible changes on the computer due to errors. It is better to fulfill such archiving once a week and be sure to preserve your data than to skip this procedure and once losing them. You can independently configure data archiving and choose what is more important to you. In addition, the archive medium remains with your choice: the second hard disk, DVD, flash card, removable USB media or network accommodation. Prepare any of the media data to perform a backup on Windows 7. It does not matter: the first is backup or not, since this article will consider both cases.
How to make a backup of Windows 7 for the first time
This procedure and the setting will not take you much time, and most importantly, it will not require the installation of third-party software. Everything happens right on your computer and does not require connecting to the Internet.
- Go to the control panel through the Start.
- Here you will need to put sorting by category. To do this, take a look at the right top corner of the screen, there you will see the "View" string. Set the "category" value.
- Now select the section "System and Safety", which is highlighted in green.
- Among the entire list of options, you need to click on "Archiving and Restoring".
- It is here that there is a backup in Windows 7. The center of the screen will be located the link "Configure Backup". Please note that there is a small shield near it. This means that you will not be able to manage this item if you are not an administrator of the computer. Get out of the guest account and enter the administrative.
- If you are in the main account, then click on this link.
- Some time the system will run the archiving mechanism. Try not to touch the computer at this moment and just wait.
- Now select the location to which the backup will be executed. It can be a disk, a memory card, an external hard disk and any other medium of information, except for your hard disk on which Windows 7 is installed. This is done for security reasons, as in the event of a disk breakdown, you will lose both the system and backup.
- If you have a network location, you can select it on the "Save Online" button. This will require its address, login and password.
- Once you have decided on the choice, click Next.
- If you are an inexperienced computer user, then it is better to choose the "Provide Windows Selection" item.
- But if you want to independently mark the folders that will be placed in a backup, then check the item "Provide me".
- Check ticks near all directories that should be archived. Of course, you can choose them all if you are very valid by the data.
- After that click "Next".
- Now check the data and click on the "Save Settings and Start Archive" button.
- Expect the system response again while it analyzes the data you entered.
- At the top of the window, you will see the system archiving. By the "View information" button, you can always cancel it if something went wrong.
- It remains to insert the media of the information and wait until all the data is recorded on it.
How to make a new backup of Windows 7
If you have already played the system archiving earlier, but decided to make another copy right now, it will take much less time, since all the settings are already set.
Go along the same way as in the first step of the article:
- Control Panel - System and Security - Archiving and Recovery.
Select "Creating a new full archive" on the right side of the screen.
- The procedure will begin instantly, and its process can be tracking at the top of the window. As always, you will need a medium of information for recording the archive.
- Now you can easily configure backups of Windows 7 and record them onto the media. Do not forget to store these media in a safe place.
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