Windows 7 has been released and many people have upgraded or fresh installed it, they may enjoy the new features of Windows 7. Though Windows 7 provides many new features, but it cannot 100% protect your system and files.
Many personal computer users have experienced system crash or data loss, for example, hardware conflict, bad ram, hard disk drives overload, viruses attack, software conflict, etc. If your system is crashed and then you will realize that you really need backup software after suffering the great pain to sacrifice your precious weekends or dating time to reinstall your operating system
This article will introduce how to do Windows 7 backup and restore with free Windows 7 backup software - EASEUS Todo Backup, with which you can backup system partition to quickly get the system up and running in the event of a system crash or hardware failure. It allows you to backup and restore disk or partition after viruses attack, unstable software download, hard drive failure, etc. Meanwhile, EASEUS Todo Backup is useful if you want to upgrade the older smaller hard disk without reinstalling the operating system and applications once again.
Besides backup to an image and disk clone, this free backup has other useful features, for example, image compression, image splitting, backup priority, Linux andWinPE bootable disk, etc.
As you know there is a hidden "System Reserved" partition before Windows 7 system partition, which contains files for booting computer. When you do Windows 7 system backup and restore, you should backup both system partition and this "System Reserved" partition.
To explore the content of "System Reserved" partition, you may use another free partition management software - EASEUS Partition Master Home Edition.
Step 1. Choose "Backup" from the main window.
Step 2. Choose the partitions you want to backup (system partition and System Reserved partition), click "Next"
Step 3. Locate the destination where you want to save the backup file(s) to and enter a file name.
Step 4. Use default option
Step 5. Click Next to complete the backup.
Firstly, the System Reserved partition and the system partition are corrupted, and Windows 7 failed to boot again, so you have to restore Windows 7 system.
Step 1. Choose "Restore" from the main windows of bootable CD.
Step 2. Choose the backup image file to restore.
Step 3. Choose Windows 7 system partition only to restore.
Step 4. Choose a target partition.
Step 5. Choose partition type.
Step 6. Adjust the target partition size.
Step 7. Assign drive letter or not.
After reboot, there is an error and Windows 7 cannot be accessed.
Why the system failed to boot? After check, you'll also find that I did not restore the System Reserved partition. So launch "Restore" again and choose System Reserved partition to restore.
Follow the next restore steps just as the above steps of restoring system partition and reboot from hard drive. Then you can boot Windows 7 again.
Please note that if the System Reserved partition has not been corrupted, you need not to restore this partition, otherwise, you have to restore Windows 7 system partition and the System Reserved partition one by one.
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