Vista and Windows 7 contain competence to fully back up system to an external USB drive that can also be utilized to boot PC if anything must occur to key system. support and Restore Center presents full PC backup that makes an image of all drives and OS thus that when starting from copy, system will look and work specifically the way your main machine worked when starting from internal hard drive.

Instructions

Step 1

Attach peripheral hard drive to PC by USB cable.

Step 2

Open Backup and Restore midpoint, to be found in Maintenance folder in Start.

Step 3

Choose "Backup Computer." Ensure to select complete PC backup.

Step 4

Choose "On a Hard Disk" when impelled for target for backup. Choose external USB drive from list.

Step 5

Verify settings for backup and choose "Start Backup." The procedure takes few hours but after finished you will have completely bootable USB drive having precise copy of Windows installation.