The book I read to research this post was How To Backup Windows 7 by John Mann which is a very good book that I downloaded from kindle. I’m not sure if this book was free or not but think it probably was. The book is only around 15 pages so is quite short. There are 2 major types of back up an image back up where everything on the drive is backed up which you can do with in Windows 7 and an incremental back up where only what has been changed is backed which you will normally do with a 3rd party tool like Drive Image. To get to the back up program click the windows icon and enter backup into the search box and then the back up option when it appears. You can then create a system disk useful if the computer crashes or back up your drive. Many new computers are backed up in this way at the factory by a technician and you will often be aware there are 2 images of windows on your hard drive with one being used to restore windows. You do need a decent sized hard drive for all this. Also you might want to do a back up when you install new software and certainly should set a restore point which can be done with in the backup program. I did quite enjoy this book and do recommend as long as you have Windows 7 on your computer. Prior to Windows 7 this process had to be done with 3rd party software.
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