System backup and restore in Windows XP

1. Use the system restore function to back up the operating system

System Restore can be performed under the Windows XP graphical interface. If you can't enter the graphical interface, you can also do it in the command line mode.

(1) Start system restore function

By default, Windows XP system restore function is enabled. If the system restore function is turned off, you can start it as follows:

Click the "Start→Control Panel" menu item, double-click the "System" icon in the dialog box that appears, open the "System Properties" dialog box. Click the System Restore tab and click to cancel the Turn off system restore on all drives option. Then select the disk or partition where the system is located in the drive list, click the "Configure" button, click the "Close the system restore of this drive" option in the dialog box that appears, and set the disk space for system restore. . Click "OK" to open the system restore function of the partition.

(2) System Restore under the graphical interface

Click the “Start→All Programs→Accessories→System Tools→System Restore” menu item to open the “System Restore” dialog box and click Select the "Create a restore point" option, click the "Next" button, name (description) the restore point in the dialog box that appears, click the "Create" button to create a new restore point. When the restore point is created, the current state of the system partition will be saved. Once the system has a problem, it can be restored to this state.

When performing a restore operation, click the "Restore my computer to an earlier time" option from the "System Restore" dialog box, click the "Next" button, the dialog box that appears In the calendar, first select the date you want to restore, and select a restore point in the list of restore points. Click the "Next" button to start the restore. After the restart, the system returns to the restore point state.

(3)Restore the system in the command line mode

When the Windows XP starts, press the F8 key to display the boot menu, and select "Safe Mode with Command Prompt" in the boot menu. Log in as an administrator and type "%systemroot%\\system32\ estore\ strui.exe" at the command prompt. After the carriage return, you can restore the system to the normal state according to the wizard on the screen.

2. Using cloning software to back up the operating system

Ghost is the most commonly used cloning software. It can make the hard disk or hard disk partition into an image file or copy it to another hard disk. And the hard disk partition goes. After Ghost restores the image file to the hard disk partition or hard disk, it is guaranteed to be the same as the data and backup.

(1) Backup system partition

Performing backup and restore with Ghost is best done in DOS state. After running Ghost, the “About” dialog box will be displayed first, and the “OK” button will be clicked to enter the main interface of Ghost. In the main interface, select the "Local" → Partition → To Image menu command to make the partition into an image file.

Next, the program asks you to choose a hard disk drive. If there are multiple hard disks, you can judge according to the size of the hard disk. If the two hard disks are exactly the same, judge according to the order of the IDE interface and the master and slave disks. In front, from the back. Then the program asks you to select the partition and select the system partition to be backed up.

In the dialog box that appears, first select the disk partition where you want to save the image file (the remaining space of this partition should be larger than the used space of the system partition), and name the image file, then click "Save" ( Save) button. Next, the Compressed Image File dialog box will appear. You can select options such as No (no compression), Fast (low compression ratio, faster), High (high compression ratio, slower speed), etc., depending on the machine configuration. After selecting "Yes" in the confirmation dialog, the image file of the system partition is created.

(2)Recovering the system partition

Creating the image file of the system partition is equivalent to making a complete backup of the system. Once the system has problems again, just put the system from the image file. It will be fine to recover.

Click the "Local→Partition→From Image" menu command on the Ghost main interface, then in the image file dialog box that appears, browse to the location of the image file, select it and click The "Open" button imports it.

Next, the program requires to select the target drive and partition of the image file recovery, here must be selected correctly, if the error, all data in the target partition will be overwritten, select "Yes" to start recovery of the partition After the recovery work is finished, restart the computer, and the system partition is restored to the original health state.