The use method of self-image backup function of win8.1 system

1, first open Control Panel-system and security-historical document records (through historical documents to save your copy of historical documents);

2, the lower left corner of the "System image Recovery" button, point open;

3, choose the location of the backup, where the system will prompt you to suggest to save to the mobile storage device, the following figure, directly saved to the same hard drive will be prompted if xxx ... Here is ignored, if you have a removable hard drive can also be saved to the mobile hard drive;

4, click Next to enter the selection interface, where the default selection system partition, look at the image below, the system partition is not necessarily only C disk, such as the small set of D disk is also:

5, continue to click Next, but backup ... The backup process can be very lengthy. Need to wait patiently.

Description: This feature backup requires a lot of space, such as your 100G C disk, now use 90G, then the size of the backup file is 90G.

In addition, you can find that the function is to package the disk you need to back up VHDX (that is, the disk format created by the virtual machine with Hyper-V from Windows), it will not compress the file, which is the reason for the large backup files.

After setting this function, we will no longer need to worry about the system failure or man-made causes of the file is not backed up, and do not have to download software to help back up, directly with the system, simple and convenient.