Resolved Will Win 7 home premium do image backups

I'm doing my Xmas !!

I want to buy SOME 64 bit version of win 7 that does image backups?

EX: will win 7 home ver do a complete partition backup? OR do I have to buy the Professional / ultimate version

 

I have Home Premium and it will do system image backups. It will not backup to a network, only to the hard drive or DVD.

 

Read this article. All versions of windows 7 have the back up facility and you can back up to a network with Pro and Ultimate.

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/features/backup-and-restore.aspx

 

I have win 7 Pro and I can back up to external HD, DVD. Their is one thing about backing up To DVD. If you have your system set up as you want it and back up to DVD's It will require over a dozen DVD's If you just backup win7 after the install it will run about 2 DVD 3 with start up bootable disk. After to install your programs and Browsers It will require lots of dvd's .
what brand hard drive do you have? I ask this because you can go to the hard drive website of the type hard drive you have and most of them have acronic backup program keyed for their brand(For Free) you can install it and back up to an external hard drive, and it will be quicker. Remember to make a startup disk )
The program in windows 7 pro one can is easy to use and as often as you like
Accordind to my win7 inside/out book in home premium one can use only once and need a another imageing program like norton Gost to make a backup. I could be wrong but my inside out book stated that. Win 7 Pro and ultimate is use as oftem as one like and as easy to use as falling off a log. acronis is real simple to use.
I use acronis from western digital for my WD Drive, and from Seagate for my seagate drive They were free

 

This is what I had in mind:

I want to back up my whole C:/ partition to my USB sea gate drive.

 

You can download Seagate Disk wizard (powered By acronis) FREE and get the manual download also It in PDF
http://www.seagate.com/ww/v/index.j...toid=d9fd4a3cdde5c010VgnVCM100000dd04090aRCRD

Seagate main site is http://www.seagate.com
's free and easy to use and will backup your computer's whole partition

I use it on my win 7 system
and I use the WD version on my Vista computer

 

Then win 7 home premium doesn't have the image backup included within the OS itself...right??

 

This link will tell you exactly how windows 7 back up can be used which includes making a system image. It will back up everything you need to do a full system recovery if the hard drive fails. It can also be set to automatically keep back ups of all your important files either to an external or internal device.

http://www.neowin.net/news/main/09/01/18/windows-7-windows-backup-overview

 

384 Chapter 11 Backup, Restore, and Recovery
INSIDE OUT What’s not backed up?
Every file on your computer that matches the criteria you select is backed up, regardless of which user account it belongs to. But not every file is included in a file backup. Even if you select every box under the Data Files and Computer headings, Windows excludes some files. For starters, files stored on any disk formatted with the FAT or FAT32 file system are ignored; drives to be backed up must be formatted with NTFS. System files are excluded, as are program files and any files in the Recycle Bin. Temporary files are backed up only on drives that are larger than 1 GB in size.
Creating a System Image Backup
With a system image backup (previously known as a Complete PC Backup in Windows Vista), you can rebuild your computer from bare metal in the event of a catastrophic failure—or if you just want to start fresh. You don’t need to install, update, and activate Windows, reinstall all your applications, and then configure your applications to work the way you like; instead, you boot into the Windows Recovery Environment, choose an image file to restore, and then complete the process by restoring from your latest file backup, which is likely to be more recent than the image. The image files that Windows Backup creates are largely hardware independent, which means that—with some limitations—you can restore your backup image to a new computer of a different brand and type without missing a beat.
As we noted earlier in this chapter, you can create a system image backup as part of your regularly scheduled backup routine. However, if your goal is to quickly create a complete copy of the contents of all drives that contain Windows system files, you can do so here without having to mess with backup settings. In the Backup And Restore Control Panel, click Create A System Image in the left pane and follow the prompts to select a backup destination. The disk space requirements for an image-based backup can be substantial. Windows will warn you if the destination you choose doesn’t have sufficient free disk space.
When you create a system image backup, it stores the complete contents of all selected drives during its first backup. If the backup target is a local (internal or external) hard drive, subsequent backup operations store only new and changed data. Therefore, the subsequent, incremental backup operation typically runs much faster, depending upon how much data has been changed or added since the previous image backup operation. If you choose a shared network folder as the backup destination (using Windows 7 Professional or Ultimate), you can save only one image backup. Any subsequent image backup will wipe out the previous image backup.

Myself I make a new folder and date it and move the old Image backup into the folder this way I can save all image backups (I Move whichever one I want to use back into the open If I need it) I also make a startup disk with each image backup