Suggestions for backing up Windows XP with Ghost

Suggestions for backing up Windows XP with Ghost

Microsoft's Windows XP has built-in very powerful multimedia and peripheral support functions, and the interface is extremely beautiful, but at the same time It is bulky and has a long installation time. If it crashes due to improper use, it will take a long time to recover or install again. So to do a backup of XP, although Microsoft has provided a restore function in XP, but this restore requires XP's graphical interface, while taking up a lot of space, frequent disk read and write affect system speed. In addition, even the security mode is a kind of graphical interface. If XP is destroyed too much and cannot enter the GUI, the restore function will be useless. Therefore, it is recommended that you keep a MS-DOS-compatible Windows 9X and use GHOST to back up XP, which constitutes multiple operating systems, so that when a serious failure occurs in Windows XP, use this GHOST backup for emergency recovery. I don't have much to say about the usage of GHOST, but the preparation in the early stage is more stressful. If it is not done well, the backup time may be very long, and the second is that the effect is not good. Let's talk about the precautions when backing up. First, transfer or delete the page file First, you should transfer the page file to a different partition than XP, or delete the page file Pagefile.sys in DOS state, because the default setting of this file is 1.5 times your physical memory, occupying the pole Large disk space, if not deleted will affect the following preparations, it will also cause the backup compression time to nearly double. Second, turn off hibernation and system restore XP sleep function and system restore is the same as the page file, taking up a lot of space. The hibernation function requires that your partition has the same space as the physical memory, and you cannot specify the storage partition, so it is not closed. You can turn these features back on after the backup is over. Third, delete temporarily unwanted fonts, temporary files, etc. If you are a user who frequently calls the TureType font to make WordArt, you may have a large number of font files in the XP directory. These fonts may reach hundreds of megabytes, but Not necessary to run XP, it is recommended to delete them, and then reload after the backup is over, anyway, just copy it. Otherwise, the GHOST time will be very long, especially after the GHOST compression method is selected, because the font itself is very large, the compression room is small, and it takes too long. In addition, you should delete the temporary files of IE, empty the recycle bin files, etc., otherwise it will waste storage space and time. Scan the disk and defragment the disk. XP must scan the disk before backing up with GHOST to ensure that there are no cross-links and file fragments on the partition. Even if you are using multiple operating systems, and the last fragmentation or other disk errors caused by the crash does not occur in XP, such as Windows 98 soft shutdown after the crash, you force a reboot caused disk errors, XP is starting It can also be detected. Then XP will ask if you want to scan the disk, not only scan the partition where Windows 98 is located, and each partition waits for more than ten seconds before scanning to let the user choose whether to cancel, which seriously affects the startup speed of XP. Therefore, before using GHOST backup, you must first scan the error on the partition to avoid backing up a bad XP. Do not say much about the benefits of defragmenting the disk and then backing up. Here you can wake up. Five, registered MSN, anti-virus software, etc. Because XP comes with MSN browser and Win Messenger, these two software are placed in the same partition of XP, and its path in XP is more difficult for users to find another transfer, you reload After that, you need to re-register the user name, email address and password every time. In addition, if you use the software such as Kingsoft Internet Security 2001, if you reinstall XP, you must re-register or enter the serial number, so it is recommended that you register first, then use GHOST backup. After recovery, it will save a lot of troubles. In addition, there are mail rules, desktop settings, etc., set up and then back up once and for all, and what other tools have to be registered and then GHOST, you should think about it yourself. Yes, finally remind you that using GHOST backup requires you to use the FAT32 disk format, NTFS has to find another way.