Backup Your Files in Windows Seven

Most other people rather think it's nowhere near possible that they should someday deal with the severe lose of files "instantly" they heard over and again from other people. They think it's too much of a coincidence it should happen to them. But really, to anticipate that it should happen to you and to know how to prevent it in the first place, makes a huge difference.

There are plenty of ways that, unfortunately, also plenty of people are unaware of, wherein data loss may be incurred as an end result. For starters, it may show as one of the following. The very clichéd viruses. Tinkering with your files and messing it up. Admit that even you do it sometimes (because I do). Getting hacked. A power outage or unhandled surge. After your computer might have crashed.

And here is another thing I consider as a trap hole, the System Restore. While you're Windows Promises that System Restore shall only restore your computer to its previous settings, and not mess around with your files, there's a catch. System Restore does not really know which of your files, is a document, whether it is under a .doc or .txt extension, after all it could be just some random help file from a program. What I'm saying is that, System Restore checks for your documents, which it thinks always resides in your My Documents folder and under your Documents and Settings folder, and then considers files under the Program directory as application programs, under the Windows Directory as operating system files. However, some people actually will place their documents into locations other than their Documents folder. Sometimes you save documents in C:\ or under the program files associated with the program that uses it, as most other programs save to the Program Files location.

In using System Restore, you can't always be sure of, I'm not overly certain about this, but during my earlier days of learning the Windows interface, I myself have experience loss of data.

Quickly now let's jump in to the solutions, to install and/or enable a prebuilt backup program in your computer and use it to backup your whole system.

Commercial and Third Party Backup Programs

Over the net, you could find maybe limitless numbers of freeware, commercial software, shareware of backup programs. And by their rights, I say they actually work, however I still prefer the default programs that come with the windows package because I think it is the most accessible, has the most updated help in the web, and most basic with the interface and functionality. But then in some cases you will still look a functionality that default programs does not have and refer to third party software.

Windows Backup

But in this case, backup-ing your system, I recommend that you use Windows (if you are using windows) default Backup applet.

In Windows Seven

1. Windows Backup opens it, simply click on the Start/Orb

2. Type in "backup and restore" then hit enter

3. By default you have not created a backup it should say Windows Backup has not been set up. Click on "Set up backup" and wait a bit for Windows backup to load

4. Choose the partition you want to backup, i.e. C:\

5. If you have files on other locations as discussed above, you will want to click on "let me choose" option rather than "let windows choose" which will automate the whole backup process.

6. Click next then Click Save and Backup.

7. Wait till your computer is saved to a recovery file and your good to go.

Now you're one step safer to not losing your files. Thumbs up!