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Couple of questions about using "system image" in backup
Couple of questions about using "system image" in backup
- Hi,
I have a couple of questions relating to the system recovery of a Windows 7 machine. First I should say I have experiance of using ASR backup on XP and 2003 machines but have had very little to do with Vista and 2008 machines so I suspect things have changed somewhat now I have got to Windows 7.
Firstly could someone confirm that the ASR backup method has now totally gone from Windows 7? And presumably the nearest thing to this is the creating a system image in backup?
Anyway I have had a go with the system image method today and have one question. My original intention was to send the image to DVD(s). I was warned that I would need around 13GB to store the image and inserted my first DVD into the burner. Anyway the image was getting sent to the DVD and I presumed I would be prompted to insert a second, third DVD etc. However I got the message "The media in the drive has too little space". Should I ge this message, surely I should get prompted to insert the next blank DVD?
Thanks for the help
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- Hi Jarv,
Sorry for the rate reply. The ASR restore mechanism still exists in Windows 7. To be able to perform an ASR restore, you must backup a system image.
When you backup an image to a DVD, are you getting an error indicating something went wrong with writing to the DVD? Can you insert a fresh DVD and try again? Anyways, looks like there is a bug that it does not ask for a new DVD when it finds the current DVD unsuitable. Will file a bug for this.
Thanks,
Sneha
[MSFT]- Proposed As Answer bySneha [MSFT]MSFTTuesday, October 20, 2009 8:45 AM
