A System Image of your PC is a carbon copy of all the information on your drive including the OS, installed apps, customizations and personal files  for recovery in case of HDD/ SSD failure.

To create a Windows system image, do the following:

Open Control panel, navigate to ” System and Security, and click “Go to Backup and Restore (Windows 7)”This will work for Win 7 -Win11.. Choose “Create a system image on the left”

Plug in your external USB HDD, SDD or Thumb drive into an open USB slot. Windows will automatically select your computer’s system drive along with the system reserved partition. Below, on the hard disk example is the “D:\” drive. But it may show E:\ or F:\. This is the “Destination Drive” (the drive that the image will be created on) * This USB drive or USB Thumb Drive must be equal to or greater than the size of the original drive being copied.

Click ” On a Hard Disk” then “next”, to start the process.

Creating a Windows system image is important for system protection against unremovable viruses, failed, unrecoverable or interrupted, Windows updates and just plain peace of mind. And it’s easy to do!

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