Thread: Windows Vista Backup and Restore Center

Windows Vista having latest utility known as Backup and Restore Center, which allows you backup your main files to a range of places if system crash. It also contains a aspect to restore files if wanted.

You can have Backup and Restore Center backup all files or whole PC. When initially set up PC, you must make a Windows Complete PC Backup image, which is taking a picture of programs, system settings, and files on PC. You can utilize backup if PC stops working. To make Windows Complete PC Backup image, hard disk should be formatted to utilize NTFS file system. Hard disk that you save backup to should be a basic disk, not a dynamic disk. You can back up dynamic disks, but then you should back up all disks on PC.

Though this kind of backup contains personal files, it is suggested that you back up files frequently using Back up Files wizard. You must also update Windows Complete PC Backup image every six months. Windows Complete PC Backup and Restore is not contained with Windows Vista Home Basic or Windows Vista Home Premium.

You can create backups to a range of places containing:

• Hard disks

• Other removable disks

• Writeable DVDs and CDs

• Network locations

To open Backup and Restore Center tick on Start and in search box on Start Menu, type backup and you notice Backup and Restore Center show under Programs.



From here you can choose to backup your files or PC or restore files or PC. To backup PC you want backup media in place so you can tell program where to backup. After finish backup then you must store it in a secure place so if you want it then you can do a reinstate of system or files.



If you want to restore whole PC from backup realize that it will format hard drive and restore files and programs that you have on it with what is on backup. When you restore PC from a Windows Complete PC Backup image, it is a full restoration. You can't select separate items to restore, and all of your current programs, system settings, and files are restored. From restore section you can also utilize System Restore to carry PC back to way it was at a particular date and recover files from Recycle Bin.