Windows image question.

I had imaged my 32bit version of Windows 7 before I got this loner machine. When it was done the folder it gave me was named "WindowsImageBackup" I want to image this 64bit version of Windows 7 I'm currently running. I assume that it will name the folder "WindowsImageBackup" Correct me if that's not right please. If it does name it that, could I rename it so I can differentiate between the 32bit and 64bit images?

Spock96

 

Put each image in it's own folder. It's what I do.

 

I never thought about that. Thank you.

 

I use Acronis too but when I took a look at Windows backup in Win 7 I seem to remember it only stored backups at the root of the drive, one of several reasons I stayed with Acronis. Maybe that's changed since?

 

As this question was asked several hours ago you may already have discovered the problem Spock with renaming the backup folder - the backup can't be found when you try to restore it! So using Windows Backup and Restore you are stuck with the default folder name - WindowsImageBackup - and the default location at the root of the chosen backup drive as I said earlier, and there is no facility to add any comments either. All that is exceedingly useless and if you are serious about imaging I strongly advise you to get a third party app such as Acronis (not free), or Macrium Reflect (free). Easeus Todo is OK too though I'm not sure it's free any longer.

If you want to persist then the only way you can differentiate backups is to store each on a different drive or partition.

 

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/663-backup-complete-computer-create-image-backup.html

Read the info in the Keeping different versions of system images paragraph on how to keep more than 1 image.

Must say that I haven't tried the above.

 

This the key bit from that article -

NOTE:

If you renamed a WindowsImageBackup folder that you want to restore, then you must rename the current WindowsImageBackup folder, then rename the image you want back to WindowsImageBackup in order to be able to restore it.

Oh great! Just what you need when your comp won't boot and you need to restore an image - how would the average user go about renaming the file on an unbootable machine? It's utterly ridiculous, but thanks for the link oma.