Vista to prevent personal data loss after system recovery solution

Problem Description

In Windows Vista, if you forget to export your personal data, your system will be lost and cannot be recovered after the system is restored. How to prevent it?

Cause Analysis

In Windows Vista, user personal data is unified into the "users" folder under the system root directory, which is used in Windows XP with "Documents" The settings for And Settings are very different. The benefit is that the user's personal data organization is clearer and the structure is more reasonable. In the default settings of Windows Vista, each user is automatically created a subdirectory in the "users" folder, which contains 11 documents including documents, links, favorites, pictures, music, contacts, and saved games. Folders, which store the corresponding data in separate categories. At the same time, the related files such as "Application Data" under "Documents And Settings" in Windows XP are removed, that is, only the user's personal data is saved in the "users" folder.

However, this will be the user's personal data and system files coexist in the same practice drives there are some risks in the operational aspects, such as: In order to improve the efficiency of system maintenance, many users like After installing the first Windows Vista Make a backup of the system partition with Complete PC, so that the system can be run again by simply restoring the image when the system crashes. However, the setting of placing the user folder on the system partition requires the user to first export the user before restoring. Personal data, otherwise, will be covered by the contents of the image file, like system files and settings, causing irreparable damage.

Solutions

the user's home folder out of the system partition, so, no matter how operations partition, use image recovery and even reinstalling Windows Vista, will not affect the other drives in the storage The personal folder below will not cause data loss. Specific operation is as follows:

1, create a new directory partition on the other, (For systems with multiple disks, the user data is preferably stored on a hard disk other than the system partition, so that more secure); < BR>
2, open the user's personal folder, select all the items, including documents, pictures, etc., hold down the right mouse button and drag it to the newly created folder. (You can also move only certain parts of the project, such as video to the newly created folder, while leaving other items in the system partition "users" directory)