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How to backup/image a system drive in case of system crease?

System drive backup/imaging

System drive backup or imaging is essential and will save you a lot of troubles and time in the case of system crash. As to a computer user, the PCs or Servers are always at risk as they may suffer from virus, malware, hacking attacks, etc. No matter how careful you are, you cannot always avoid data loss. So, to backup your system in advance is much better than to reinstall your windows and applications again. If so, have you ever planned to make a backup of your entire Window operating system, but never prefer to pay for a backup software which allows you to accomplish this task? Here, you can learn a totally free backup software which will both backup your system drive to an image and clone system disk to another to protect you away from system crash. It also offer users free disaster system restore from the backup image in the case of system crash by creating a bootable CD or WinPE bootable CD. Things will be much different if you have backed up your system drive with the free system backup software - EASEUS Todo Backup in the case of system crash.

How to backup the system drive or image drive with EASEUS Todo Backup?

EASEUS Todo Backup will enable users to backup the system drive for Windows 2000/XP/Vista and Windows Server 2000/2003/2008 to image for free and save it to CD/DVD or external hard drive to protect it. Once your computer crashes, you can restore your system by creating a bootable CD. If you have not backed up your system drive before, then, please download the free backup software to make a backup and following the below steps now:

1. Launch backup operation. Please click "Backup" in the main window, or select "Operation" -> "Backup" from the menu bar, tool bar or action panel to start "Backup Wizard".

Backup system drive

2. Select the system drive C:

Select the system drive

Sector-by-sector backup Option

Sector-by-sector backup can be chosen if necessary. If you choose it, it means you prefer to backup all sectors to the image file even though there is no data on the source partition or disk. Sector-by-sector backup will be operated automatically when there is bad sector on the source partition.

Create image sector by sector

3. Select the destination position to save the image and input a name for the image.

Select the destination partition

4. Choose backup options. Here are two options: "Use Default options" and "Set the option manually".

List of disks and partitions

If you choose "Use Default options" during this step, the backup image will be produced according to you previous set state.

Use default options

If "Set the option manually" is selected, you can set the Priority, Compress Level, Image protection and Image Splitting options. (This option also can be changed previously in Tool > Option)

Set the option manually

5. You may add some comments to the system backup image which will help you to find the image file faster.

Put comments to the system backup image

6. This window displays the list of operations which will be performed. Click "Proceed" to start the backup creation task

Preview system backup operations

7. There will be the process bars of current operation progress and total progress. After all the operations finished, there will be a pop-up window with the result notification.

Proceed system backup

Tips:

1. If you set a password for the image file, you need to confirm this password when you check or restore.
2. Please do not save the image file to the partition which you want to restore.

After these steps, your system will be successfully backed up with this free system backup software. If there is something wrong with your system partition, please just perform restore backup image with EASEUS Todo Backup to make your computer works normally.

Why not grap a copy of this free backup software to create an image for your system C drive now to ensure the security of your Windows operating system now?

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