Overview of important data backup in Windows

We all know the accidental misoperations on system files and hardware drivers with mismatched versions. Program Is enough to make it unable to start. Without this, installing too many applications in the system will slow the system down. The solution is to reinstall * the system. So what is the backup required for reinstalling * the system?

1. Back up user data
Your own things, such as files in the "My Documents" folder, software settings, game archiving, and good stuff to download. These user data files are very sensitive and important. These files must be left behind. You can zip these files and put them in a safe place-Hard Disk non-system partition, CD, or Internet.

2. Back up the Registry in time

The registry stores information about all settings of your computer and registration of various software and hardware, so the importance of this information can be imagined. If we forget to modify the Registry (except the so-called "green software") when restoring the system after installing the new software, I am afraid most of the software will not work normally, especially those software that needs to be registered. What does "timely" backup registry mean? Of course, it means that your system is about to crash. If we remember to back up the system when the system crashes, it will be a little late. The backup method is simple. You only need to open "Start> Run" and enter "Regedit" and press Enter, select registry> export registry in the registry interface that appears. Do not forget to store this registry file in a partition other than drive C.

3. Backup of IE favorites

Bookmarks in the IE favorites are actually URLs under the "cocuments" and "Settings username" favorites "directories, copying them to a backup folder, after reinstalling the * system, copy it to the original directory and restore it. In addition, we also use the following methods:
① Ie Export

Using IE's favorites export function, you can easily export favorites into other applications or files on your computer and store them in a secure directory. After finishing your favorites, select ie "File> Import and Export" to go to the Import and Export wizard, click Next, and select "Export favorites" from the * task to be executed ", 4. Tokens are common and can be imported. Specifically, you can select "Import favorites" in the * task to be executed ".
② Completely change the storage path

Change the default favorites storage path. Click Start> Run, enter regedit, and press enter to enter the Registry Editor. Open hkey_current_usersoftwaremicrosoftwindowscurrentversionjavasershell folders. You will see a key value of favorites, whose data is cocuments and settings username favorites, which is the default storage path. Double-click this key value and enter D in: favorites: OK, 5. If you do not want to modify the registry every time, just click Export registry file to save it as the favorite. reg file. After reinstalling the system, you just need to double-click the favorite. reg file to change the storage path immediately.

4. Back up "inbox" and "sent"

They are typically located in the cocuments and settings username local settingsapplication dataidentities {D52622AE-3A66-4EBC-8CAA-B707BDA79777} microsoftoutlook express directory, copy these two files for backup, 6. After the system is reinstalled, paste the backup file to overwrite the existing file.

Note: Before Pasting and overwriting, you must register your e-mail address, then open Oe, and click all mailboxes respectively to automatically generate some mailboxes that do not exist before, for example, "sent ". Otherwise, after you paste and overwrite, you will find that "sent" generates another file "sent (1)", while "sent" is empty.

5. Backup email account

Multiple email accounts are not new to Internet users. To back up your email account, Run regedit to open the registry and find the following directory: hkey_current_usersoftwaremicrosoftinternet account manageraccounts. All your account settings are saved here. Hover your mouse over accounts, select "Registry> export Registry File" from the menu, select "selected branch" from "export range", enter the registration file name, and press OK, 7. You only need to click the backup file to add to the Registry for future recovery.

6. Back up the address book

To back up the address book, you only need to save the file in the C: Documents and Settings User Name application datamicrosoftaddress book. XXX in XXX. wab is the user name defined when Windows is installed. You can also back up data by using "File> export> Address Book" in OE, and use "File> Import> Address Book" for restoration.

7. Driver backup

After the system is reinstalled, it is a big challenge to find drivers for various English video cards and sound cards. The driver backup expert can help you solve the problem. It can quickly detect all hardware devices in the computer and extract and back up the drivers of hardware devices. You can click one or two mouse clicks to back up the selected or all hardware drivers. It also comes with an INF script installer to simplify the installation process of hardware devices. using it with Windows's automatic installation script will allow you to install the system in one step. These extracted drivers are also useful when you need to reinstall or upgrade your windows * system.

8. Use ghost to back up the system

Ghost is a well-known hard disk copy and backup tool of Symantec. It not only features hard disk cloning, but also features hard disk partitioning, hard disk backup, system installation, network installation, and system upgrade. The new version of ghost includes the following five Toolkit: Ghost (used to clone the hard disk on the DOS Platform), Explorer (used to open the ghost image file under Windows 95/NT), GDIS (Hard Disk partitioning Program), MCAST (for multi-disk cloning), and Walker (for Windows NT platform ).

◇ Backup hard disk
If all the data in your system is very important and this situation is also common in many enterprises, we recommend that you use backup hard disks. That is, all data on the entire hard disk is backed up. This type of situation is mostly used for important information such as databases.

① To disk. First, the select Source disk dialog box is displayed, listing all the hard disks of the local machine. In the hard disk list, select the source disk with the mouse. Then, the select target disk dialog box is displayed. Select the target disk from the hard disk list and click "OK, click "yes" to start cloning the hard disk.

② To image. Select the to image option and select the source disk. The input image file name dialog box is displayed. The default extension is. gho. You can choose not to compress, fast compress, or maximum compress. Of course, the higher the compression ratio, the slower the speed. After selecting the compression ratio, the program starts to compress the entire source disk into an image file and save it on the specified hard disk.

③ From image. After selecting the from image option, the Select image file dialog box is displayed. Then, select the hard disk to be restored and click "OK". Then, the system automatically restores the selected hard disk data.

◇ Backup partition
If you only want to back up the * System of the hard disk and some frequently used software after installation, that is, to back up the C disk, you should choose to partition. We recommend that you do this on a computer. * This is simple and saves hard disk space.

After selecting the sub-menu of partition, options such as to partition (partition to partition), to image (partition to image file), and from image (Restore partition from image file) are displayed, * The process is similar to that of the backup hard disk.